Letizia Bonanno
Biographic Data
| ID | 164585 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Letizia Bonanno |
| GIVEN NAMES | Letizia |
| FAMILY NAME | Bonanno |
| SIGNATURE | BONANNO L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Vienna |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7910-802X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Why draw? Drawing ethnographic fieldnotes , by Carol Hendrickson
In the crowded landscape of contemporary methodological handbooks, Carol Hendrickson’s Why Draw? lands with the promise of revitalizing the visual, and specifically the graphic, dimension of the et...
The State, the Household, the Voluntary Sector
Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Athens' social clinics of solidarity, I explore how the volunteers redefined pharmaceuticals as they moved from state-licensed pharmacies to households and into the grassroots voluntary sector. Therefore, I trace how their value, status and meaning shifted in the process: medicines were no longer seen as commodities but treated as sociable objects of care. In showing how state policies and market forces made pha…
On the Compositional Relationship of Text and Image in Graphic Anthropology
Graphic anthropology has grown to become a distinctive subfield at the intersection of anthropology of drawing, visual anthropology, and multimodal approaches to social research. We assess this development and identify two emerging styles of graphic anthropological practice. While some anthropologists follow the representational language of comic books and graphic novels—known as sequential art—others evade sequential framing, arranging images an…
On Affects and State Documents
In this article, I explore the incremental bureaucratisation of a grassroots, self-organised medical facility (KIA) in austerity-ridden Athens, focusing ethnographically on the conflicting affects it triggers in both prospective patients and the volunteers-turned-bureaucrats. Through detailed ethnographic vignettes, I discuss how the volunteers attempt to circumvent the bureaucratic rules they put in place by engaging in small acts of bureaucrati…
Vignettes from Athens
This article explores the entangled practices of drawing and ethnographic fieldwork through a series of illustrated vignettes from Athens. Written from the perspective of a self-described "bad anthropologist," I reflect on the tensions between theory and experience, visibility and failure, and the messy subjectivity of the fieldworker. Drawing-sketchy, ironic, sometimes raw-is treated neither as a romanticized gesture nor a tool for "impact" or m…
We want bread, education and freedom’
‘We want bread, education and freedom’ is an ethnographic experiment that traces and weaves together the unfolding of multiple crises in Greece in the mid-2010s. An ethnographically informed snapshot of a visit to the squatted hotel City Plaza in Athens, the piece unfolds by exploring the polysemy and versatility of the 1973 slogan ‘Bread, education, freedom’ and how it has been reappropriated and re-signified over time to make sense of the 2010 …
The Work of Pharmaceuticals in Austerity-Burdened Athens. Modes and Practices of Care in Times of Crisis
Based on ethnographic fieldwork carried out in a social clinic of solidarity on the outskirts of Athens, the article explores how modes and values of care are constantly reconfigured at the intersection of an ever-expanding grassroots voluntary medical sector, the state and the household in a moment of severe economic distress. It traces the changing relations of care across these three realms where diverse modes of care have traditionally unfold…
Of Athens, crises, and other medicines
I am writing this short piece from Kini, a small village on the island of Syros. Sparse houses painted in white are the only touch of color in this otherwise monochrome rocky and dry landscape. The owner of my flat welcomed me and my friend and said that we should not worry about the fires: there is nothing to be burned here in Syros. As of today (August 11, 2021), Greece has been plagued with incredibly high temperatures and wildfires for days. …
Ethno/Graphic Storytelling
Ethno/Graphic Storytelling
The Work of Pharmaceuticals in Austerity-Burdened Athens. Modes and Practices of Care in Times of Crisis
Based on ethnographic fieldwork carried out in a social clinic of solidarity on the outskirts of Athens, the article explores how modes and values of care are constantly reconfigured at the intersection of an ever-expanding grassroots voluntary medical sector, the state and the household in a moment of severe economic distress. It traces the changing relations of care across these three realms where diverse modes of care have traditionally unfold…
Of Athens, crises, and other medicines
I am writing this short piece from Kini, a small village on the island of Syros. Sparse houses painted in white are the only touch of color in this otherwise monochrome rocky and dry landscape. The owner of my flat welcomed me and my friend and said that we should not worry about the fires: there is nothing to be burned here in Syros. As of today (August 11, 2021), Greece has been plagued with incredibly high temperatures and wildfires for days. …
Ethno/Graphic Storytelling
Of Athens, crises, and other medicines
I am writing this short piece from Kini, a small village on the island of Syros. Sparse houses painted in white are the only touch of color in this otherwise monochrome rocky and dry landscape. The owner of my flat welcomed me and my friend and said that we should not worry about the fires: there is nothing to be burned here in Syros. As of today (August 11, 2021), Greece has been plagued with incredibly high temperatures and wildfires for days. …
We want bread, education and freedom’
‘We want bread, education and freedom’ is an ethnographic experiment that traces and weaves together the unfolding of multiple crises in Greece in the mid-2010s. An ethnographically informed snapshot of a visit to the squatted hotel City Plaza in Athens, the piece unfolds by exploring the polysemy and versatility of the 1973 slogan ‘Bread, education, freedom’ and how it has been reappropriated and re-signified over time to make sense of the 2010 …
The Work of Pharmaceuticals in Austerity-Burdened Athens. Modes and Practices of Care in Times of Crisis
Based on ethnographic fieldwork carried out in a social clinic of solidarity on the outskirts of Athens, the article explores how modes and values of care are constantly reconfigured at the intersection of an ever-expanding grassroots voluntary medical sector, the state and the household in a moment of severe economic distress. It traces the changing relations of care across these three realms where diverse modes of care have traditionally unfold…
On Affects and State Documents
In this article, I explore the incremental bureaucratisation of a grassroots, self-organised medical facility (KIA) in austerity-ridden Athens, focusing ethnographically on the conflicting affects it triggers in both prospective patients and the volunteers-turned-bureaucrats. Through detailed ethnographic vignettes, I discuss how the volunteers attempt to circumvent the bureaucratic rules they put in place by engaging in small acts of bureaucrati…
Vignettes from Athens
This article explores the entangled practices of drawing and ethnographic fieldwork through a series of illustrated vignettes from Athens. Written from the perspective of a self-described "bad anthropologist," I reflect on the tensions between theory and experience, visibility and failure, and the messy subjectivity of the fieldworker. Drawing-sketchy, ironic, sometimes raw-is treated neither as a romanticized gesture nor a tool for "impact" or m…
Why draw? Drawing ethnographic fieldnotes , by Carol Hendrickson
In the crowded landscape of contemporary methodological handbooks, Carol Hendrickson’s Why Draw? lands with the promise of revitalizing the visual, and specifically the graphic, dimension of the et...
The State, the Household, the Voluntary Sector
Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Athens' social clinics of solidarity, I explore how the volunteers redefined pharmaceuticals as they moved from state-licensed pharmacies to households and into the grassroots voluntary sector. Therefore, I trace how their value, status and meaning shifted in the process: medicines were no longer seen as commodities but treated as sociable objects of care. In showing how state policies and market forces made pha…
On the Compositional Relationship of Text and Image in Graphic Anthropology
Graphic anthropology has grown to become a distinctive subfield at the intersection of anthropology of drawing, visual anthropology, and multimodal approaches to social research. We assess this development and identify two emerging styles of graphic anthropological practice. While some anthropologists follow the representational language of comic books and graphic novels—known as sequential art—others evade sequential framing, arranging images an…
Ethnography (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Foucault, Power, and Ethics (2 works) · Grassroots (2 works) · History (2 works) · History (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Law (2 works)