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Irene Moretti is PhD Candidate at Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology, Leiden University

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Expatriates or immigrants? Navigating in-between categories in the Netherlands

How do migrants navigate different identity categories, like ‘expatriates’ and ‘immigrants’? What power relations do these categories reproduce and challenge? Camila, Daniela, Maria, and Natacha conducted research on migration and belonging in the Netherlands. In this blog, they share some of their main findings.

Camila Cuadrado, Maria Ladommatou, Natacha Pittet, Daniela Tinca and Irene Moretti • September 01, 2023

Introduction: Leiden Anthropologists Reflect on the COVID-19 Pandemic

The coronavirus outbreak raises fundamental questions about the politics and narratives of crisis, as well as about our “ordinary” everyday lives and sociality. Irene Moretti and Annemarie Samuels introduce a collection of blogposts of Leiden Anthropologists reflecting on the pandemic.

Annemarie Samuels and Irene Moretti • March 23, 2020 • 1 comment

Covid-19: a Conversation about Cultural Differences, Nationalism and Care

In this blogpost, Irene Moretti and Erik Bähre have a conversation about the approaches adopted by the Netherlands and Italy to curb the spread of the virus. In doing so, they focus on cultural differences, nationalism and ideas of care.

Irene Moretti and Erik Bähre • March 23, 2020

Responsibility in Pandemic Times and beyond: Otherness and Subalternity

The recent outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic forces us to reflect on our shared responsibility to curb the spread of the virus. Irene Moretti wonders what this health crisis might teach us about notions of the Other in everyday life.

Irene Moretti • March 23, 2020 • 1 comment

The Black Box in Bologna: A Short Documentary

By portraying seven perspectives on the recent spread of the black box in the car insurance domain, this documentary sheds light on the much-debated relation between responsibility, privacy, and control. This is further explored in Moretti's PhD research.

Irene Moretti • April 09, 2018

How to Deal with Puzzling Brokers in Ethnographic Fieldwork?

As anthropologists, we rely heavily on gatekeepers. They are crucial figures in facilitating our access to the field and they might profoundly influence our ethnographic experience. But what to do when your main gatekeeper behaves like a puzzling broker?

Irene Moretti • April 21, 2017