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Academician

EUROPEAN ACADEMY

OF SCIENCES OF UKRAINE

Giuliana B. Prato

EUASU Academician, Honorary Professor in Social Anthropology at the University of Kent, School of Anthropology and Conservation. Chair of the Commission on Urban Anthropology (IUAES). She is a founding member and Secretary-Treasurer of the not-for-profit association International Urban Symposium-IUS. She launched (with Dr. Italo Pardo) the online peer-reviewed journal Urbanities, Journal of Urban Ethnography. She has authored numerous articles and books while also serving as the founder and editor of several book series in anthropology.

Giuliana B. Prato,  Ph. D. is an EUASU Academician and Honorary Professor in Social Anthropology at the University of Kent, School of Anthropology and Conservation. Dedicated to ethnographically grounded analysis, she has conducted fieldwork predominantly in urban settings in Italy, Britain, Albania, and France. Her overarching research interests are political change, the legitimacy of governance, the relationship between political ideologies and economic and social policies, the implications of new technologies, comparative ethnography. Dr Prato has  taught at universities in Britain, Italy, Switzerland, and Albania.

Over the years, her ethnographic research has addressed religious beliefs and practices on death, sin, and expiation; political representation, new political elite and challenges to party-rule in Italy; environmentalism, hunting with hounds; regime change, corruption and legal reforms in post-socialist Albania, a predominantly Muslim country, amid Albania's journey toward European Union membership; the interplay between social and cultural change and global processes, particularly examining issues such as immigration politics, transnational power relations and the EU Stability Pact for South Eastern Europe. Ongoing plans involve the expansion of TEN-T corridors and the environmental impact of TAP (Trans-Adriatic Pipeline) on sustainable, integrated territorial development; health care and public health policies; digital governance and new forms of inequalities.

In November 2011, Dr Prato launched with Professor Italo Pardo the online peer-reviewed journal Urbanities, Journal of Urban Ethnography. Professor Prato serves as Chair of the Commission on Urban Anthropology (IUAES). She is a founding member and Secretary-Treasurer of the not-for-profit association International Urban Symposium-IUS. She has written numerous articles and books. Alongside with Professor Italo Pardo, she co-founded and co-edited the Ashgate Series on Urban Anthropology (2007-2013), which is currently published by Routledge, and is co-editor of the Palgrave Studies in Urban Anthropology (https://www.palgrave.com/gb/series/14573)

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Beyond Multiculturalism. Views from Anthropology (Edited By Giuliana B. Prato)

While the anthropological field initially shied away from the debate on multiculturalism, it has been widely discussed within the fields of political theory, social policy, cultural studies and law. 
Beyond Multiculturalism is the first volume of its kind to offer a comparative, worldwide view of multiculturalism, considering both traditional multicultural/multiethnic societies and those where cultural pluralism is relatively new. 
Its varied case studies focus on the intersections and relationships between cultural groups in everyday life using employment, identity, consumption, language, legislation and policy making to show the unique contribution anthropologists can bring to multiculturalism studies. 
Their work will be of great interest to scholars of race, ethnicity, migration, urban studies and social and cultural geography.

 

Anthropology in the City: Methodology and Theory (Edited by Italo Pardo and Giuliana B. Prato)

With half of humanity already living in towns and cities and that proportion expected to increase in the coming decades, society - both Western and non-Western - is fast becoming urban and even mega-urban. As such, research in urban settings is evidently timely and of great importance. 
Anthropology in the City brings together a leading team of anthropologists to address the complex methodological and theoretical challenges posed by field-research in urban settings, clearly identifying the significance of the anthropological paradigm in urban research and its centrality both to mainstream academic debates and to society more broadly. 
With essays from experts on wide-ranging ethnographic research from fields as diverse as China, Europe, India, Latin and North America and South East Asia, this book demonstrates the contribution that empirically-based anthropological analysis can make to our understanding of our increasingly urban world.

 

The Palgrave Handbook of Urban Ethnography (Edited by Italo Pardo and Giuliana B. Prato)

These ethnographically-based studies of diverse urban experiences across the world present cutting edge research and stimulate an empirically-grounded theoretical reconceptualization. 
The essays identify ethnography as a powerful tool for making sense of life in our rapidly changing, complex cities. They stress the point that while there is no need to fetishize fieldwork—or to view it as an end in itself —its unique value cannot be overstated. 
These active, engaged researchers have produced essays that avoid abstractions and generalities while engaging with the analytical complexities of ethnographic evidence. Together, they prove the great value of knowledge produced by long-term fieldwork to mainstream academic debates and, more broadly, to society.