Lorenzo D’Orsi
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Lorenzo D’Orsi is Assistant Professor at the Department of Social Sciences (DISS) of the University of Foggia and qualified as Associate Professor in social anthropology (2021). He received his Ph.D. degree in social anthropology from the University of Milano Bicocca (2016).
Between 2017 and 2018, he was a postdoc researcher at the Center of South-East European Studies (CSEES) of the Karl Franzens University in Graz and at the Institute of Turkish Studies of Stockholm University (SUITS). He was lecturer at Pisa University and a research fellow at the Italian national research council (CNR).
From 2019 to 2022 he was researcher and lecturer at the Department of Political and Social Sciences of the University of Catania for the project PON AIM Smart, Secure and Inclusive Communities “Practicing the Smart City: New policies and new urban imaginaries in Sicily”.
In 2021, he was a visiting researcher at the Department of Anthropology and the School of Urban Affairs and Public Policy of the University of Memphis, US. For his research in Uruguay he was awarded the Young Scholar Prize in 2017 by the Société Internationale d´Ethnologie et de Folklore (SIEF) and, in the same year, the Prix International Mémoire d’Auschwitz for his research on trauma and memory in Turkey.
He is a member of the editorial staff of “Antropologia” (LediJournals), “RAC – Rivista di Antropologia Contemporanea” (Il Mulino), and “Etnoantropologia” (CLUEB), and of the scientific committee of the series “Anthropology of the contemporary world” for CISU publisher.
Teaching
At the University of Foggia, he teaches the courses in Anthropology of Food, Ethno-anthropology and Anthropology of migration. As lecturer at the University of Catania, he previously taught Anthropology of the Mediterranean, Introduction to Cultural anthropology and Medical anthropology (2019-2022). He also taught Anthropology of conflict and violence at the University of Pisa (2017-2019).
Research
Since 2010, he has been working on memories of student movements and leftist organizations affected by political violence in the 1970s and 1980s. In this respect, he has carried out extended ethnographic fieldwork in Uruguay and Turkey on the politics of memory of military dictatorships and the social construction of collective traumas. His research interests focus on the political and cultural configuration of collective remembering and feelings of moral outrage, the social nature of biographical memories, the cultural dimension of painful memories and the ways in which the latter are conveyed onto next generations. He has also investigated new social movements and movements of protests in Turkey.
In 2020, he started a new research field on urban transformations, rearrangements of the past and new social imaginaries of future in the late-industrial context of Gela in Sicily. He is co-PI of the research project “QUASI-RUINS: Place, nostalgia and future in late-industrial Italian towns”.
Publicaciones académicas de Lorenzo D’Orsi
Books:
D’Orsi L., L. Rimoldi, eds., 2022. Etnografie delle smart city. Abitare, relazionarsi e protestare nelle città intelligenti italiane, Ledizioni, Milano.
D’Orsi L. 2020. Oltraggi della memoria. Generazioni, nostalgie e violenza politica nella sinistra in Turchia, Meltemi, Milano.
Selected articles:
D’Orsi L. 2023. “Rovine del passato, rovine del futuro. Nostalgia e immaginari tardo-industriali in Sicilia”, L’Uomo, vol. XIII (1), pp. 73-100.
D’Orsi L. 2022. “‘Making the wound bleed’: Nostalgia, mourning and morality among Turkish revolutionaries in Istanbul”, Anthropological Quarterly, Vol. 96, No.1, pp. 839–868.
D’Orsi L., L. Rimoldi 2021, “Antropologia e smart city: dal modello astratto agli usi indisciplinati”, L’Uomo, vol. XI (2021), n. 2, pp. 89-114.
D’Orsi L. 2019. “Touching history and making community. The memory of the 1980 Turkish military coup in the 12 September Museum of Shame”, History and Anthropology, Volume 30, (5), pp. 644-667.
D’Orsi L. 2018. “Inheriting and living the political. The leftist youth subculture in Istanbul”, Anthropology of Middle East, Vol. 13, Issue 2, 8-25.
D’Orsi L., F. Dei, 2018. “What is a rite? Émile Durkheim, a hundred years later”, Open Information Science 2018; Vol.2, pp. 115–126.
D’Orsi L. 2018. “Moral Thresholds of Outrage. The March for Hrant Dink and New Ways of Mobilization in Turkey”, Conflict and Society, Vol. 4, 2018, pp. 40-57.
D’Orsi L. 2017. “Insularità: esperienze dal campo in Turchia”, Lares, LXXXIII, n°3, pp. 413-432.
D’Orsi L., 2015, “Crossing Boundaries and Reinventing Futures: An Ethnography of Practices of Dissent in Gezi Park” in G. Koç, H. Aksu (eds.) Another brick in the wall: Gezi Resistance and its aftermath, Vienna, Wiener Verlag für Sozialforschung, pp. 16-33.
D’Orsi L., 2015, “Trauma and the Politics of Memory of the Uruguayan Dictatorship”, Latin American Perspective, Issue 202, Vol. 42 No. 3, May 2015, pp. 162–179.
Publicaciones académicas de Lorenzo D’Orsi
Books:
- D’Orsi L., L. Rimoldi, eds., 2022. Etnografie delle smart city. Abitare, relazionarsi e protestare nelle città intelligenti italiane, Ledizioni, Milano.
D’Orsi L. 2020. Oltraggi della memoria. Generazioni, nostalgie e violenza politica nella sinistra in Turchia, Meltemi, Milano.
Selected articles:
- D’Orsi L. 2023. “Rovine del passato, rovine del futuro. Nostalgia e immaginari tardo-industriali in Sicilia”, L’Uomo, vol. XIII (1), pp. 73-100.
- D’Orsi L. 2022. “‘Making the wound bleed’: Nostalgia, mourning and morality among Turkish revolutionaries in Istanbul”, Anthropological Quarterly, Vol. 96, No.1, pp. 839–868.
- D’Orsi L., L. Rimoldi 2021, “Antropologia e smart city: dal modello astratto agli usi indisciplinati”, L’Uomo, vol. XI (2021), n. 2, pp. 89-114.
- D’Orsi L. 2019. “Touching history and making community. The memory of the 1980 Turkish military coup in the 12 September Museum of Shame”, History and Anthropology, Volume 30, (5), pp. 644-667.
- D’Orsi L. 2018. “Inheriting and living the political. The leftist youth subculture in Istanbul”, Anthropology of Middle East, Vol. 13, Issue 2, 8-25.
- D’Orsi L., F. Dei, 2018. “What is a rite? Émile Durkheim, a hundred years later”, Open Information Science 2018; Vol.2, pp. 115–126.
- D’Orsi L. 2018. “Moral Thresholds of Outrage. The March for Hrant Dink and New Ways of Mobilization in Turkey”, Conflict and Society, Vol. 4, 2018, pp. 40-57.
- D’Orsi L. 2017. “Insularità: esperienze dal campo in Turchia”, Lares, LXXXIII, n°3, pp. 413-432.
- D’Orsi L., 2015, “Crossing Boundaries and Reinventing Futures: An Ethnography of Practices of Dissent in Gezi Park” in G. Koç, H. Aksu (eds.) Another brick in the wall: Gezi Resistance and its aftermath, Vienna, Wiener Verlag für Sozialforschung, pp. 16-33.
- D’Orsi L., 2015, “Trauma and the Politics of Memory of the Uruguayan Dictatorship”, Latin American Perspective, Issue 202, Vol. 42 No. 3, May 2015, pp. 162–179.