Encountering Precarities: The Podcast

I am an anthropologist whose focus includes urban India, scholarly podcasting, opening up higher education for displaced learners, and environmental (in)justice. I am convinced that research and higher education can only maintain scholarly excellence, political relevance and its critical edge by being open and accessible. This is something I seek to do at the anthropology publishing platform Allegra Lab, the refugee education initiative OLIve, through my teaching and research, and as a multimodal scholar, especially through podcasting.

Viola Castellano research interests revolve around ethnography of institutions, welfare and migration policies, borders externalization and global inequalities. She is Senior Research Associate at the Chair of Social and Cultural Anthropology of the University of Bayreuth, while previously she worked at the University of Bologna and at the Brazilian Center for Analysis and Planning. She is part of the research group Anthropology of Global Inequalities at the University of Bayreuth and the research center MODI (Mobility, Diversity and Social Inclusion) at the University of Bologna.

Olivia is a social and visual anthropologist. Her research is concerned with processes of racialisation and the built environment, indigenous displacement and alternative urban epistemics. She has been working in Chile since 2008 and recently started working in Bolivia. She explores performance, art, and other visual methods as practice-based and collaborative research methodologies. Currently, Olivia is Research Associate at the University of Sheffield, and holds a Wenner Gren Hunt Writing fellowship. She is the mother of two young children, born in Italy (2016) and in the UK (2020).