Research: Skatebordering. Global Production and Local Consumption of a Popular Culture at the Western US-Mexico Border
PERSONAL INFORMATION
buchetti.a@gmail.com
andrea.buchetti@uniroma1.it
EDUCATION (ITALY):
2021- in course: PhD in “History, Anthropology, Religions” (curriculum Demo-Ethnoanthropological Disciplines), "Sapienza" University of Rome, Rome (Italy)
2018/19-2019/20: M.A. with honors in "Ethno-Anthropological Disciplines", "Sapienza" University of Rome, Rome (Italia); 110 cum laude; Thesis Title: "Plasmando Aztlan. Identità di frontiera tra le comunità chicane degli USA sud-occidentali"
2014/15- 2016/17: Bachelor in "Scienze per la pace, cooperazione internazionale e trasformazione dei conflitti"; Università di Pisa, Pisa (Italia); 110 cum laude; Thesis title: "Sicurezza e conflitto urbano ai tempi della Minniti-Orlando: il caso pisano"
EDUCATION (ABROAD)
January 2023-September 2023: Visiting Research Scholar. Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Univeristy of California Davis (UCDavis). Tutor: Prof. Robert Irwin
January 2023-September 2023: Visiting PhD Candidate. Departamento de Estudios Culturales, El Colegio de la Frontera Norte (COLEF Tijuana). Tutor: Prof. José Manuel Valenzuela Arce
RESEARCH
September 2022-November 2023: fieldwork for PhD dissertation at the Tijuana-San Diego Border
2019-in course: Participation in the research project of anthropology of the seas “Ermenautica – Saperi in Rotta”, “Sapienza” University of Rome.
January-April 2018: fieldwork in Pisa on the urban effects of “Minniti-Orlando” laws, for my bachelor dissertation
FUNDINGS/AWARDS/GRANTS
13/04/2023: Award for participation in the annual conference of the Association for Borderland Studies, Tempe, Arizona; "Association for Borderland Studies (ABS)"
March 2023-June 2023: PhD student mobility grant; Sapienza" University of Rome
a.a. 2019/20: Award for excellence track, master's degree; "Sapienza" University of Rome, Faculty of Letters and Philosophy"
a.y. 2019/20: Scholarship for thesis abroad; "Sapienza" University of Rome, Faculty of Letters and Philosophy "
2018-2021: "DCRS/HRR/Training & Welfare/2018 study project," Autostrade per l'Italia s.p.a.
LENGUAGE SKILLS
Italian: mother tongue
English: B2
Spanish: C1
CONFERENCES/SEMINARS
12/09/2023: “Entre Calles y Economia Transanacional. El Skateboarding como Espejo de la Frontera Mexico-EEUU y Reto Metodologico” (conference), Insituto de Investigaciones Culturales, Universidad Autonoma de Baja California (UABC), Mexicali
11/08/2023: “9° Congreso Internacional de Antropologia AIBR: El Desafio Intercultural, Dialogo y Diversidad”, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM), Città del Messico. Speech Title: “Consumir Tablas, Producir Comunidad. Las Incursiones Informales de los Patinadores en las Maquiladoras de Tijuana entre Mercado Global y Subcultura Local”
12/07/2023: “Poetics and Politics of Leisure” in “Leisure Studies Association Annual Conference” Bournmouth University. Speech title: “Playing with the Materiality of Leisure. The Shaping of a Local Skatebaording Culture at the Western US-Mexico Border”
14/05/2023: “Immaginario y Memoria. Estudios Culturales” in “XVL Convegno Internazionale di Americanistica” University of Perugia. Speech title: “Le Molte Strade per Aztlan. Memorie Neoindigene e Immaginari Etnici Contesi alla Frontiera Messico-Stati Uniti”.
21/04/2023: “The Stoke Session. An International Conference on the Culture, History and Politics of Surfing and Skateboarding” San Diego State University (SDSU), San Diego (California). Speech title: “Skatebordering. Local Cultures and Transnational Economies of Skateboarding at the US-Mexico Border”
13/04/2023: “Young People, Families and Borders” in “Association of Borderland Studies Annual Conference”, Tempe (Arizona). Speech title: “Sliding on Borders. Production and Mass Consumption of Skateboarding Culture between Tijuana and California to Re-Think the US-Mexico Global Border”.
17/02/2023: “Anthropoday Milano 2022. Milano Fuori di Sé”. Università di Milano Bicocca & American Anthropological Association. Speech title: “Skatebordering. Note Etnografiche dal Confine Messico-USA per Ripensare le Frontiere Globali della ‘Capitale Italiana dello skate’ “
15/11/2022: “RE-Border 2022. Sustenability and Innovation in the CaliBaja Transborder Region” (panelist). Universidad Autonoma de Baja California, Tijuana (UABC, Tijuana)
23/09/2022: Conference “La Forza Materiale dell’Immaginazione. Una Giornata di Studio sull’Opera e il Pensiero di David Graeber a due Anni dalla sua Scomparsa” (Co-organizer). “Sapienza” University of Rome.
13/05/2022: “Il Problema dell’Altro: Crisi, Resistenze, Ridefinizioni”, in Seminario Avanzato 2021/2022 “Centro-Periferie. Come le Culture Costruiscono l’Alterità”. “Sapienza” University of Rome. Speech title: “L’Altro Indigeno tra gli Altri Chicanos: Mestizaje, Neo-Indigenismo e Razzializzazione nel Greater Mexico tra Creatività ed Essenzialismo”
28/09/2021: “Utopian and Dystopian Futures of Water Worlds – Mediterranean Crises and the Making of Liminal Infrastructures” in “Worlds. Zones. Atmospheres. Seismographies of the Anthropocene”; Online; Organizer: GAA (German Anthropological Association); Speech Title: "Il progetto Ermenautica-Saperi in Rotta"
16/03/2021: "VI Congreso Mexicano de Antropología Social y Etnología"; Online; Organizers: Colegio de Etnólogos y Antropólogos Sociales, A.C. (CEAS) e La Red Mexicana de Instituciones de Formación en Antropología (REDMIFA); Speech title: "El mar en lucha. El proyecto Ermenautica"
08/06/2018: "Daspo e sicurezza urbana. Il caso Pisa"; Biblioteca Andrea Fisoni (Pisa); Organizzatori: Prof. Sonia Paone; Speech title: "Sicurezza e conflitto urbano ai tempi della “Minniti Orlando”: Il caso pisano"
EDITORIAL BOARDS
2021- in course: Prospero Editore; Series: Maree. Itinerari antropologici
PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS
Buchetti A., (forthcoming Novembre 2023) “Comunidades Radicales en las Fronteras Maritimas. Una Lectura ‘Pirata’ de las Navegaciones en el Mediterraneo Occidental” in Castro Neira, Y., Agudo Sanchiz, A. & Bourgeois, C. (eds) Gobierno de las Movilidades Humanas en las Fronteras Mundiales de la Pobreza. Dispositivos Migratorios, Administración del Refugio y Luchas Migrantes”, Universidad Iberoamericana Città del Messico: 93-115
Buchetti, A., (2023) “Militanza e Creatività nella Pluralità del Borderscapes. Produzione Estetica di Frontiera tra il Mediterraneo e il Nord del Messico”, in Archivio Antropologico Mediterrano, 25(1): https://doi.org/10.4000/aam.6926
Buchetti, A., (2021) "Veniamo dal mare", in Aria M. (a cura di), Ermenautica. Dai mari condivisi i segreti della convivenza, Prospero Editore, Milano, pp. 207-216