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Dr. David Bozzini
d.bozzini@ascleiden.nl
david.bozzini@unine.ch
David Bozzini is a political anthropologist. He received his Ph.D. from the
University of Neuchâtel (Switzerland) in 2011. He is currently a
post-doctoral visiting fellow in the African Studies Centre in Leiden and
recipient of a one-year post doctoral fellowship of the Swiss National
Science Foundation. His research is directed towards questions that
emphasize the role of affects and imagination in politics.
His PhD dissertation is based on two years of fieldwork in Eritrea and
analyses state governance and surveillance related to compulsory military
conscription and various conscript's strategies to cope with insecurity and
fears generated by state measures. His work delineates social processes that
are both challenging and complicit with state authoritarianism.
In his current post-doctoral research he investigates the role and
functioning of Eritrean transnational state institutions and the tensions
between different political groups within the Eritrean diaspora in two
European countries: Switzerland and the Netherlands. At the cross-road of
three fields of study - anthropology of the state, transnational studies,
and surveillance studies - this project examines the processes and the
limits of economic and political mobilizations of Eritrean migrants in
Europe by the Eritrean state. This project aims to analyzes individual and
collective strategies in response to socio-political pressures and aims to
decipher the dynamics of political ambivalence.
David Bozzini worked as a teaching assistant at the Anthropology institute
of University of Neuchâtel in Switzerland and since 2010, he is co-editing
Tsantsa, the Journal of the Swiss Ethnological Society.
Recent publications
David Bozzini
En État de Siège. Ethnographie de la Mobilisation Nationale et de la
Surveillance en Érythrée. Neuchâtel: University of Neuchâtel, PhD. thesis,
2011
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David Bozzini
"Low-tech surveillance and the despotic state in Eritrea".
In: Surveillance and Society 9(1-2), 2011
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David Bozzini & Roberta Deambrosi
"Asmara ou les logiques de la contrainte".
Pount. Cahiers d'Études Corne de l’Afrique – Arabie du Sud 4: p.53-69, 2010
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