Angelina Kussy: Engaged Scholar, Activist & Speaker at 'Why the World Needs Anthropologists, Mobilizing the Planet'

The Human Show: Innovation through Social Science

Angelina Kussy is an economic anthropologist from Warsaw and activist with Barcelona en Comú, the citizen platform governing Barcelona, working for municipalism and Fearless Cities. We are happy to have Angelina with us speaking to her background and current work. Angelina shares her views and dialectical relationship to activism & scholarship and takes us through the multiple projects she is currently engaged with.

Her areas of interest are economic anthropology, especially work, public policies for social protection, the care crisis, and transnational migration in enlarged Europe. Her research employs the perspective of gender, class, and other factors of social inequality and qualitative research methods: in-depth and semi-structured interviews, life histories, and ethnographic observations (although she has also collected data for mixed-methods projects).

Angelina is a member of the Department of Anthropology, Philosophy and Social Work of the Rovira i Virgili UniversityandNotus – applied social research centre.

Angelina is writing her PhD at the Autonomous University of Barcelona on domestic workers and the extractivist social organization of care in Europe. She has also written journalistic articles for the Polish and Spanish press that disseminate anthropological knowledge and social critique.

We are happy to have Angelina with us speaking to her background and current work. Angelina shares her views and dialectical relationship to activism & scholarship and takes us through the multiple projects she is currently engaged with. Lastly as a speaker of the Why the World needs Anthropologists, Mobilizing the planet she shares how she will be contributing to the theme as well as her advice and thoughts to those considering to attend. Listen to the episode to hear more about it.

Mentioned:

https://www.applied-anthropology.com/speaker/angelina-kussy/

Media :

You can reach her at Twitter: @angelinakussy and Research Gate:https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Angelina-Kussy-2