Zaira Tiziana Lofranco

Zaira Tiziana Lofranco is a research fellow at the University of Bologna, Department of Educational Sciences G.M Bertin. She is adjunct professor of economic anthropology at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia. Her works deals with anthropological studies on financialization in its daily and urban dimension. She currently conducts research on the stratifications of forms of mobility to and from the Balkans, with particular attention to the transformations of transnational economic practices implemented by the different types of people moving in this geographical area. She has also dealt with the post-socialist transformation in the territories of the former Yugoslavia and in particular in Bosnia-Herzegovina. In this context, she ethnographically investigated the themes of urban transformations, borders and human mobility, the economy of corruption; of household's indebtedness and financialisation of the city. She has worked as well on school reforms and school textbooks in post-conflict countries and on intercultural mediation in school and extra-school in the province of Bergamo.