Author: Matteo Benussi

Matteo (Teo) Benussi is an anthropologist specialising in religion and ethics in post-socialist Eurasia. He is the recipient of a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellowship hosted by the Universities of California, Berkeley and Ca’ Foscari, Venice. Teo’s PhD (Cambridge, 2018) and current research project deal with Islamic piety movements, halal practices, and the politics of virtue amongst Muslims in Tatarstan (Russian Federation). Over the years he has also been investigating nostalgia, localism, and vernacular Orthodox Christianity in post-Chernobyl Ukraine.

Matteo Benussi

The Vital Afterlife of Chernobyl Cemeteries

May, 2020 / By Matteo Benussi

Every year, after Easter, hundreds of families from all over Ukraine gather in the Chernobyl Zone of Alienation. People converge […]