Roberta RAFFAETA'

Position
Associate Professor
Roles
Member of the Centre's Scientific Committee "THE NEW INSTITUTE: Centre for Environmental Humanities (NICHE)"
Telephone
041 234 6240
E-mail
roberta.raffaeta@unive.it
Scientific sector (SSD)
Discipline demoetnoantropologiche [SDEA-01/A]
Website
www.unive.it/people/roberta.raffaeta (personal record)
Office
Department of Philosophy and Cultural Heritage
Website: https://www.unive.it/dep.fbc
Where: Malcanton Marcorà
Office
THE NEW INSTITUTE Centre for Environmental Humanities (NICHE)
Where: Ca' Bottacin
Research Institute
Research Institute for Complexity

Roberta Raffaetà is associate professor of Socio-cultural Anthropology at the Department of Philosophy and Cultural Heritage, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, and Deputy Director of NICHE (The New Institute: The Centre for Environmental Humanities). She studies the multiple ways people assign value to life in a world where humans and non-humans are interdependent, with a focus on how science is transforming in response to eco-social challenges and technological revolutions. Her work lies at the intersection of medical anthropology, environmental anthropology/political ecology, science and technology studies and art. Since obtaining a PhD at the University of Lausanne (Laboratoire d’anthropologie culturelle et sociale, Faculté des Sciences Sociales et Politiques), she has worked at various universities in Italy (Milano-Bicocca, Bologna, Verona, Trento, Bolzano) and abroad (UCLA, UCSD, Monash Melbourne, Lausanne). Her research has been funded by the European Commission (Marie Curie and ERC), Fulbright (Schuman), The Italian Ministry of Research (FARE, PRIN, PNRA), Wenner Gren and Parco Adamello Brenta. 

Currently, Roberta welcomes supervision of thesis in these fields:

- Common goods in the Alps (especially management of forests, or hunting)