Flavia Cangià

Parcours

Flavia Cangià est anthropologue social qui mène des recherches interdisciplinaires sur les questions de la diversité, mobilité et les migrations. Elle a obtenu son doctorat en anthropologie sociale en 2010 à la Chaire d'Anthropologie Sociale de l'Université de Fribourg (Suisse) avec une spécialisation sur les questions relatives aux minorités au Japon.  Entre 2012 et 2014, elle a été Post Doc au Conseil National de la Recherche en Italie et assistante de recherche à la Chaire d'Anthropologie Sociale de l'Université de Fribourg, menant des recherches sur la relation entre la complexité et la diversité socioculturelle chez les jeunes. 

Aujourd’hui, elle est Senior Researcher à la Chaire HRO de l'Université de Fribourg (Suisse) dans le cadre du NCCR LIVES, IP6 Gender, Mobility and Vulnerability et du nccr on-the-move IP38 The Digitalization of Work and the (Im)Mobilities/Boundaries Paradox of IT Specialists. Auparavant, elle a travaillé à l'Institut de Psychologie et d'Éducation de l'Université de Neuchâtel (Suisse) dans le cadre du nccr on-the-move, collaborant à un projet sur les professionnels mobiles et leurs familles. 

Ses domaines d'intérêt et de spécialisation sont la mobilité, la migration, les transitions de vie et travail, l'imagination, les émotions, la précarité et la diversité socioculturelle.

Ses loisirs comprennent le yoga, la course à pied et la dégustation de vin.

Recherches et publications

Articles de revues scientifiques

Hercog, M., and Cangià, F. (in press). Skills on the Move: Highly Skilled Migrants in Switzerland and Beyond. Population, Space and Place

Cangià, F., Zittoun, T., (2020) Exploring the Interplay between (Im)mobility and Imagination, Special Issue for Culture & Psychology Journal, February 2020

Cangià, F., (2020). (Im)mobile Imagination. On Trailing, Waiting and Imagining Work in Mobility. For Exploring the Interplay between (Im)mobility and Imagination, Culture & Psychology, February 2020

Suter, B., and Cangià, F., (2020) Time and Family On the Move: ‘Accompanying Partners’ in Geographical Mobility. Time and Society. February 2020

Cangià, F., (2019). “Switzerland doesn’t want me”. Work, precarity and emotions for mobile professionals’ partners. Migration Letters 16 (2), 207-217.

Cangià, F. (2018). Precarity, Imagination and the Mobile Life of the ‘Trailing Spouse’. Ethos 46 (1), 8-26

Cangià, F. (2018). Book Review: Julia L. Cassaniti & Usha Menon (Eds). Universalism Without Uniformity. American Ehnologist 45 (4): 569-571.

Cangià, F., & Zittoun, T. (2018). Editorial: When Expatriation is a Matter of Family. Opportunities, Barriers and Intimacies in International Mobility. Migration Letters 15 (1), 1-16.

Cangià, F., Levitan, D., & Zittoun, T. (2018). Family, Boundaries and Transformation. The International Mobility of Professionals and Their Families. Migration Letters 15 (1), 17-31.

Zittoun, T., Levitan, D., & Cangiá, F. (2018). A sociocultural approach to mobility: the case of repeated mobility of families. Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology 24 (4): 424–432.

Cangià, F. (2017).  (Im)Mobility and the Emotional Life of the Expat Spouses. Emotion, Space and Society 25, 22-28.

Cangià, F. (2017). Childhoods as Political Projects. A Comparison between Cultural Nationalism and Minority Activism in Japan. Global Studies of Childhood  7, 6-16.

Cangià, F. (2017). Emotions and Symbolic Boundaries. Reflections on Italian Youths’ Views About Migration. Ethnic and Racial Studies 40 (10), 1720–1738.

Cangià, F. (2015). Book Review: Schiller, Glick Nina and Andrew Irving (eds.). Whose Cosmopolitanism? Critical Perspectives, Relationalities and Discontent. Social Anthropology Journal. 23 (3), 391–392.

Cangià, F. (2014). The Hindu Rights Action Force and the Definition of the “Indian Community” in Malaysia. Sociological Research Online 19 (4), 1-14.

Cangià, F. (2014). Written Emotional Disclosure and Boundary Making. Minority Children Writing about Discrimination. Multicultural Education Review 6 (2), 25-52.  

Cangià, F. and Pagani, C. (2014). National Borders and Emotions in Italian Youths' Views on Immigration. Etnofoor, Borders, 26 (1), 107-124.

Cangià, F. and Pagani, C. (2014). Youths, Cultural Diversity, and Complex Thinking. The Open Psychology Journal 7, 20-28.

Cangià, F. (2013). From Heterotopias to Cultural Landscapes. On Reconstructing Buraku Leather Towns into “Japanese National Spaces”. Urbanities 3 (1), 44-62.

Cangià, F. (2013). Images of Edo. Reinterpreting “Japanese History” and the “Buraku” Through Minority Narratives. Contemporary Japan 25 (1), 17-40.

Cangià, F. (2012). “Children of Kinegawa” and the Transformation of the “Buraku Identity” in Japan. Childhood 19 (3), 360-374.

Cangià, F. (2010). “Towards a Mutual Anthropology of Identity in Japan and the West”. The Electronic Journal of Contemporary Japanese Studies. Available at http://www.japanesestudies.org.uk/discussionpapers/2010/Cangia.html.

Cangià, F. (2009). Performing the Buraku Culture. Taiko Drums From Factory to Stage. Phoenix in Domo Foscari, The Online Journal of Oriental Studies 2, 73-94.

Cangià, F. (2008). Buddhismo Giapponese e Diritti Umani. Il Fondamento Religioso del Burakumondai. La Critica Sociologica 167, 43-55.

Monographies

Cangià, F., (in press). Liminal Moves. Travelling Along Places, Meanings and Times. Berghahn Books.

Cangià, F. (2013). Performing the Buraku. Narratives on Cultures and Everyday Life in Contemporary Japan. Münster:  LIT Verlag

Contributions d'ouvrages

Cangià, F., Zittoun, T., and Levitan, D. (2019). “Work and Geographical Mobility: The Case of the Male Accompanying Spouses.” In Culture, Work and Psychology: Invitations to Dialogue, edited by Pedro Bendassoli, Charlotte, NC: Advances in Cultural Psychology.

Cangià, F., (2019). “The Human Relationship with Sociocultural Diversity in the Social Sciences”, in Pagani, C., Diversity and Complexity. Nova Publishers.

 Levitan, D., Zittoun, T.  & Cangiá, F. (2018). Relocation experts for families in geographical itinerancy: beyond the “cultural problem”. In S. Schliewe, N. Chaudhary, & P. Marsico (Eds.). Cultural Psychology of Intervention in the Globalized World. Charlotte, NC: Advances in Cultural Psychology.