Author: Letizia Bonanno

Letizia is currently based at the University of Kent, where she is research associate in medical anthropology at KMMS. Letizia’s research interests revolve around issues of biomedicine and statecraft projects in southern Europe; her work lies at the intersection of medical and social anthropology. She has conducted ethnographic fieldwork in Athens (Greece) where she looked at the birth of the social clinics of solidarity and how pharmaceuticals became increasingly crucial to an array of social, economic and political relations.

Sometimes she makes ethnographic comics instead of writing ethnography.

Letizia Bonanno

Letizia is currently based at the University of Kent, where she is research associate in medical anthropology at KMMS. Letizia’s research interests revolve around issues of biomedicine and statecraft projects in southern Europe; her work lies at the intersection of medical and social anthropology. She has conducted ethnographic fieldwork in Athens (Greece) where she looked at the birth of the social clinics of solidarity and how pharmaceuticals became increasingly crucial to an array of social, economic and political relations. Sometimes she makes ethnographic comics instead of writing ethnography.

Encountering precarities Threads

Whose crisis is this crisis?

May, 2023 / By Letizia Bonanno

This post is part of our Encountering Precarities series. The thematic thread engages with the multiple and asymmetrical forms of precarisation […]

Eerie desires for the authoritarian state. Covid-19 updates from Italy.

March, 2020 / By Letizia Bonanno

I have been – like anyone else in Italy – in quarantine for the past three weeks. Optimistically, Italy will