Chiara Bresciani
Chiara Bresciani is an anthropologist working on time, change, tradition and memory among the Huaves of Southern Mexico, where she has been conducting fieldwork since 2011. In particular, she focuses on the role of conflict and historical narratives in shaping political landscapes, identities and competing worldviews. She has also conducted research in the same region on the electrification through solar energy of a remote community and on the patterns and determinants of alcoholism. She holds a Master’s degree in Anthropology from the University of Bologna and a Master's in Intermediterranean Mediation from the Universities of Venice, Barcelona and Montpellier. She currently teaches at the Master’s in International Studies at Aarhus University, Denmark, where she is also completing her PhD. She is the project manager of Raíces de Cultura [Culture Roots], an initiative for the communication of academic research on Latin America in Denmark. As a member of the Surviving Memory team from 2022-2024, she worked with Vladimir Pacheco on memory and local economic reconstruction.