Charles University, Prague
leonardo.schiocchet@ff.cuni.cz
Leonardo Schiocchet is Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Ethnology at Charles University (Prague). He is co-editor of Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale, co-chair of the IUAES Commission on Migration and External Supervisor at the Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology (IKSA) of the University of Vienna.
Schiocchet holds a PhD in anthropology (Boston University, 2011) and a Habilitation (venia docendi) in Social Anthropology (University of Vienna, 2021).
His latest books include: Living in refuge (transcript Publishing, 2022); and Processes of Belonging and Social Organization among Arab Forced Migrants: Theoretical-Methodological Contributions (ABA Publicações e Editora Fi, 2024).
Rather than working directly on conspiracy theories, among other topics, Schiocchet tackles dynamics of suspicion and trust that underlie what he calls an anthropology of the fiduciary, meaning processes of entrustment intrinsic to all social relations.
His most important publications on the topic are:
Schiocchet, Leonardo. 2014. Suspicion and the Economy of Trust among Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon. In Cambridge Anthropology 32(2), Autumn 2014: 112–127. doi:10.3167/ca.2014.320210
Schiocchet, Leonardo. 2017. Essay on the Anthropology of the Fiduciary. In Mistrust: Ethnographic Approximations, Florian Mühlfried (Ed.). Bielefeld: Transcript, pp. 93-104. DOI: 10.14361/9783839439234-005
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