Author: Stefano Pontiggia

Stefano Pontiggia is a social anthropologist at the Politecnico di Milano and lecturer in Anthropology at the University of Padua. The author of the book Revolutionary Tunisia: Inequality, Marginality, and Power (Rowman and Littlefield, 2021), Pontiggia has conducted ethnographic research in Italy and Tunisia within and outside academia. His research interests span from marginality to issues of power, state institutions, citizenship, and migration.

Stefano Pontiggia

Stefano Pontiggia is a social anthropologist at the Politecnico di Milano and lecturer in Anthropology at the University of Padua. The author of the book Revolutionary Tunisia: Inequality, Marginality, and Power (Rowman and Littlefield, 2021), Pontiggia has conducted ethnographic research in Italy and Tunisia within and outside academia. His research interests span from marginality to issues of power, state institutions, citizenship, and migration.

Anthropology of the Absurd Threads

The violent face of bureaucracy

April, 2024 / By Stefano Pontiggia

Whenever I meet Merule, a 42-year-old Nigerian citizen living undocumented in Milan, Italy, I am struck by the number of […]

Fieldnote One-Shots

‘Every Day is a Copy-And-Paste’: Waithood Among Tunisian Men

April, 2016 / By Stefano Pontiggia

This morning I felt that I couldn’t bear this passivity any longer. I was sinking in my red plastic chair