Chiara Fiscone
Biographic Data
| ID | 4155754 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Chiara Fiscone |
| GIVEN NAMES | Chiara |
| FAMILY NAME | Fiscone |
| SIGNATURE | FISCONE C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Milano-Bicocca |
| ORCID | 0009-0004-0262-3145 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
From inclusion to justice
The concept of inclusion has become a central and largely uncontested principle across global mental health, education, and social policy. Despite its widespread adoption, its underlying assumptions often remain insufficiently interrogated. This Perspective critically examines inclusion not as a neutral or inherently benevolent concept, but as a practice embedded within broader relations of power. Informed by sustained empirical and professional …
Intercultural sensitivity and competence as predictors of well-being and burnout among early childhood education teachers
This study explores the relationships between intercultural competence (IC), intercultural sensitivity (IS), subjective well-being (SWB), and burnout among early childhood education (ECE) teachers in Italy. Grounded in Chen and Starosta’s model of IS and Fantini’s framework of IC, the study adopts a quantitative approach to examine how these dimensions are associated with teachers’ well-being and burnout. A total of 503 predominantly female teach…
Spaces of Survival and Resistance
This study examines how genocidal violence reconfigures lived space in the Gaza Strip and explores how Palestinians experience and re-signify places through everyday practices of survival, memory, and resistance. Drawing on debates on genocide, affective geographies, and settler colonialism, the study conceptualizes space as both a target of violence and a site of refusal. Between December 2024 and January 2025, 24 Palestinians living under siege…
Collective and Decolonial Practices in Narrative Approaches
This paper explores what it means for two white Western psychologists, trainers, and researchers to engage in decolonial practice within a training on collective narrative practices conducted with Nigerien mental health providers in May 2023. The analysis is grounded in themes identified by participants through the co-construction of a collective document during the training. Building on these themes, we engage in a dialogic and reflexive examina…
Psychological burdens during genocide
Narrative Practices as Situated Ethical and Political Processes
Narrative practices are increasingly positioned as decolonial and feminist alternatives to individualizing and deficit-oriented psychological interventions. However, limited empirical research has examined how such practices are enacted within everyday community and organizational contexts shaped by structural inequality. This qualitative study explores how narrative practices are experienced, negotiated, and adapted by 16 women social workers an…
The Uncanny City and the Immanence of Crisis
The Uncanny is a concept famously elaborated by Freud, referring to the experience of unease at suddenly recognising a familiar but unhomely presence in a homely scene, a brief slippage into a more disturbing reality. This paper serves as an art-informed ethnography, exploring the uncanny experience of visiting Florence, a Theme Park City, during a time of international crisis. Drawing on Gale’s concept of ‘affective presencing,’ I develop a seri…
Challenges and Survival Skills of Mental Health Providers in Niger
The development and validation of a Colonial Trauma Scale within the Palestinian context
Developing and validating new decolonized instruments, which include considerations of historical violence and its lasting effects, are particularly crucial. These tools can enhance the design of both assessments and interventions, allowing for a more comprehensive understanding of the multifaceted nature of colonial trauma. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)
Ethics, power, and responsibility in qualitative psychology
This paper emerges from a collaborative duo-ethnographic inquiry into the lived and contested dimensions of ethics in qualitative psychological research. Grounded in our diverse positionalities as researchers situated across disciplinary, institutional, and geopolitical contexts we reflect on the persistent dissonance between institutionalized procedural ethics and the ethical complexities encountered in practice. Through reflexive and collaborat…
Intercultural competencies and professional life of social workers in Italy
Children's agency and well-being in spaces shaped by colonial violence
In recent decades, the discourse surrounding children's participation in research has undergone a profound transformation, shedding light on their evolving role from passive subjects to active agents. This shift has placed a strong emphasis on incorporating participatory methodologies while researching with children, which enables us to capture their perspectives and place them at the core of the research process. In this study, to explore the ex…
Do you think all of us are mentally sick because of this horror? Mental health under genocide in Gaza
Purpose The ongoing genocide in Gaza represents one of the most catastrophic humanitarian crises in recent history, causing unprecedented physical and psychological damage to two million civilians. This study aims to explore the features and aftermath of Israel’s genocidal campaign against Gazan civilians, focusing on their experiences and psychological responses. Design/methodology/approach A purposive convenience sample of 26 participants was i…
Subjective well-being, sense of coherence, trauma and psychopathological symptoms predict mental health of Sub Saharan forced migrants. A quantitative exploratory study
Trauma and resistance in Niger's emergency transit mechanism
This qualitative exploratory research delves into the intricate life narratives of forcibly displaced individuals residing within the Emergency Transit Mechanism (ETM) in Niger, employing a methodology grounded in life narrative analysis. The primary objective is to gain a comprehensive understanding of the potential stressors and traumatic experiences encountered by these individuals, encompassing both psychological and physiological dimensions,…
Well-being and quality of life in migrants involved in the emergency transit mechanism in Niger
Purpose Sub-Saharan forced migration in recent decades has reached alarming levels, significantly increasing the risk to develop mental health vulnerabilities due to traumatic events and postmigration stressors. Research gaps persist within this population, necessitating culturally sensitive studies within a socioecological framework. This pilot exploratory mixed-method study aims to investigate the quality of life and subjective well-being among…
Children's agency and well-being in spaces shaped by colonial violence
In recent decades, the discourse surrounding children's participation in research has undergone a profound transformation, shedding light on their evolving role from passive subjects to active agents. This shift has placed a strong emphasis on incorporating participatory methodologies while researching with children, which enables us to capture their perspectives and place them at the core of the research process. In this study, to explore the ex…
Do you think all of us are mentally sick because of this horror? Mental health under genocide in Gaza
Purpose The ongoing genocide in Gaza represents one of the most catastrophic humanitarian crises in recent history, causing unprecedented physical and psychological damage to two million civilians. This study aims to explore the features and aftermath of Israel’s genocidal campaign against Gazan civilians, focusing on their experiences and psychological responses. Design/methodology/approach A purposive convenience sample of 26 participants was i…
Subjective well-being, sense of coherence, trauma and psychopathological symptoms predict mental health of Sub Saharan forced migrants. A quantitative exploratory study
Trauma and resistance in Niger's emergency transit mechanism
This qualitative exploratory research delves into the intricate life narratives of forcibly displaced individuals residing within the Emergency Transit Mechanism (ETM) in Niger, employing a methodology grounded in life narrative analysis. The primary objective is to gain a comprehensive understanding of the potential stressors and traumatic experiences encountered by these individuals, encompassing both psychological and physiological dimensions,…
Well-being and quality of life in migrants involved in the emergency transit mechanism in Niger
Purpose Sub-Saharan forced migration in recent decades has reached alarming levels, significantly increasing the risk to develop mental health vulnerabilities due to traumatic events and postmigration stressors. Research gaps persist within this population, necessitating culturally sensitive studies within a socioecological framework. This pilot exploratory mixed-method study aims to investigate the quality of life and subjective well-being among…
The Uncanny City and the Immanence of Crisis
The Uncanny is a concept famously elaborated by Freud, referring to the experience of unease at suddenly recognising a familiar but unhomely presence in a homely scene, a brief slippage into a more disturbing reality. This paper serves as an art-informed ethnography, exploring the uncanny experience of visiting Florence, a Theme Park City, during a time of international crisis. Drawing on Gale’s concept of ‘affective presencing,’ I develop a seri…
Challenges and Survival Skills of Mental Health Providers in Niger
The development and validation of a Colonial Trauma Scale within the Palestinian context
Developing and validating new decolonized instruments, which include considerations of historical violence and its lasting effects, are particularly crucial. These tools can enhance the design of both assessments and interventions, allowing for a more comprehensive understanding of the multifaceted nature of colonial trauma. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)
Ethics, power, and responsibility in qualitative psychology
This paper emerges from a collaborative duo-ethnographic inquiry into the lived and contested dimensions of ethics in qualitative psychological research. Grounded in our diverse positionalities as researchers situated across disciplinary, institutional, and geopolitical contexts we reflect on the persistent dissonance between institutionalized procedural ethics and the ethical complexities encountered in practice. Through reflexive and collaborat…
Intercultural competencies and professional life of social workers in Italy
Children's agency and well-being in spaces shaped by colonial violence
In recent decades, the discourse surrounding children's participation in research has undergone a profound transformation, shedding light on their evolving role from passive subjects to active agents. This shift has placed a strong emphasis on incorporating participatory methodologies while researching with children, which enables us to capture their perspectives and place them at the core of the research process. In this study, to explore the ex…
Do you think all of us are mentally sick because of this horror? Mental health under genocide in Gaza
Purpose The ongoing genocide in Gaza represents one of the most catastrophic humanitarian crises in recent history, causing unprecedented physical and psychological damage to two million civilians. This study aims to explore the features and aftermath of Israel’s genocidal campaign against Gazan civilians, focusing on their experiences and psychological responses. Design/methodology/approach A purposive convenience sample of 26 participants was i…
From inclusion to justice
The concept of inclusion has become a central and largely uncontested principle across global mental health, education, and social policy. Despite its widespread adoption, its underlying assumptions often remain insufficiently interrogated. This Perspective critically examines inclusion not as a neutral or inherently benevolent concept, but as a practice embedded within broader relations of power. Informed by sustained empirical and professional …
Intercultural sensitivity and competence as predictors of well-being and burnout among early childhood education teachers
This study explores the relationships between intercultural competence (IC), intercultural sensitivity (IS), subjective well-being (SWB), and burnout among early childhood education (ECE) teachers in Italy. Grounded in Chen and Starosta’s model of IS and Fantini’s framework of IC, the study adopts a quantitative approach to examine how these dimensions are associated with teachers’ well-being and burnout. A total of 503 predominantly female teach…
Spaces of Survival and Resistance
This study examines how genocidal violence reconfigures lived space in the Gaza Strip and explores how Palestinians experience and re-signify places through everyday practices of survival, memory, and resistance. Drawing on debates on genocide, affective geographies, and settler colonialism, the study conceptualizes space as both a target of violence and a site of refusal. Between December 2024 and January 2025, 24 Palestinians living under siege…
Collective and Decolonial Practices in Narrative Approaches
This paper explores what it means for two white Western psychologists, trainers, and researchers to engage in decolonial practice within a training on collective narrative practices conducted with Nigerien mental health providers in May 2023. The analysis is grounded in themes identified by participants through the co-construction of a collective document during the training. Building on these themes, we engage in a dialogic and reflexive examina…
Psychological burdens during genocide
Narrative Practices as Situated Ethical and Political Processes
Narrative practices are increasingly positioned as decolonial and feminist alternatives to individualizing and deficit-oriented psychological interventions. However, limited empirical research has examined how such practices are enacted within everyday community and organizational contexts shaped by structural inequality. This qualitative study explores how narrative practices are experienced, negotiated, and adapted by 16 women social workers an…
Migration, Health and Trauma (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Mental health (6 works) · Qualitative research (6 works) · Political science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Colonialism (4 works) · Narrative (4 works) · Psychiatry (4 works) · Social science (4 works)