Gabriele Orlandi

Gabriele Orlandi is a political scientist (University of Turin, Italy) and anthropologist (EHESS, Paris). He conducted field investigations in India, France and Italy. Currently, as part of a PhD in co-supervision between Aix-Marseille University and the University of Turin, he is interested in the effects of rural development policies on the populations of an Alpine valley. In 2021 he was among the laureates of the WWNA APPLY AWARD, category "Social Movements (anthropological skills and insights for promoting cooperation, inspiration, and just and sustainable action) "  of the research project "Montagne In Movimento" - EASA Applied Anthropology Network.

The Project

The use of ethnographic and comparative methods of anthropology to the variety of forms of territorial governance has been little explored by social research. However, the analysis of relations underway between States and their “marginal” areas, and in particular the intersections between the various scales of democratic participation, at a time of profound political, economic, and ecological mutations following the Covid-19 health crisis, is extremely important. However, methods and epistemological and deontological features of a socio-anthropology involved in the elaboration of collective and inclusive projects towards transition still need to be defined. By comparing the ways of articulating the scales of public action in three Alpine contexts, in France, Switzerland and Italy respectively, The TRANSAlp project aims - on the one hand - to empirically explore the conditions of a transition to sustainability and social justice in singular socio-spatial configurations and - on the other hand - to inquire on the role that social sciences, and in particular an applied and implicated socio-anthropology, can play in the setting up of new governance models.

Selected Publications