(Emanuela) E Naclerio

Biography

Emanuela Naclerio is Postdoc Researcher on the NWO-funded VIDI project Crafting Future Urban Economies at Erasmus University Rotterdam. Her current research considers micro-entrepreneurs in sustainable craft, focusing on issues of work, identity and cultural production in France and Italy. In 2022, she received her PhD in Sociology and Methodology of Social Research from University of Milan and University of Turin. In her thesis, she explored the experiences of young performing artists in the city of Milan in relation with processes of individualization, precarisation and aestheticization of work. In 2021 she was PhD visiting scholar at Goldsmiths University London. Emanuela’s research interests look at the intersection between work, sustainability and cultural production from a perspective that takes into account social theory, cultural sociology and cultural studies.

Publications

- (2023) Playing among passion and insecurity. A qualitative study of work in the Italian performing arts, Rassegna Italiana di Sociologia, [online first].

- (2023) Self-entrepreneurship in uncertain futures: the case of performing artists in Italy, International Sociology, 38, 1.

- (2022) Traces of solidarity: performing artists’ efforts against individualisation and isolation during Covid-19 pandemic, Sciences et actions sociales, 18.

- (2022) Young actresses at work: an analysis of gender and power inequalities in the Italian theatrical sector, Debats. Revista de cultura, poder i societat, 136(1), pp. 31–48.