#Failures: When things don’t hold: Anthropologies of failure, breakdown, and dysfunction
The fragility of our infrastructures and modes of living seldom become as ubiquitously palpable as they have with the current
Laura Mafizzoli
Laura Mafizzoli graduated in Social Anthropology at the University of Venice. Her MA dissertation examined the experiences of displacement amongst a village of Georgian IDPs escaped from South Ossetia during the wars in 1991-1992 and 2008. Currently, she is a PhD candidate in Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester. She spent one year carrying out her ethnographic research in Tbilisi, looking at the practices of Gulag memory-making in the capital of the Republic of Georgia.