Stranger "at home". Ethnographic representations in a post-industrial area of ​​Milan

Authors

  • Luca Rimoldi

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14672/ada20181391133-149

Keywords:

anthropology, ethnography, labor, narratives, Milan

Abstract

This paper is intended as a reflection on the socio-political construction of oral sources in the context of extensive fieldwork research, carried out “at home”. Itinvestigates the ethnographic encounters as heuristic tools aimed at the construction of specific anthropological knowledge. I consider here my ethnographic interviews with former unionists and workers of the Pirelli-Bicocca focusing on the accounts of the years 1968-1969. Rethinking these "ethnographic documents" collected between 2008 and 2013, I describe some mutual hospitality practices that emerged with incisiveness in the relation between the subjects involved in this ethnographic research and me.

Published

2018-03-28

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Section

Articles