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Miria Gambardella holds a MA in Anthropology from the University of Neuchâtel and is currently Marie Curie Doctoral Researcher at CCI (Centro per la Cooperazione Internazionale - Trento), within a PhD program in Social and Cultural Anthropology at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. Her main areas of research are economic and political anthropology, specialized in anthropology of social movements, solidarity networks, and international cooperation. She conducted her fieldwork in Mexico, studying informal economic practices as forms of anti-systemic resistance. Her research examines transnational solidarity networks between European radical left collectives and indigenous communities in Chiapas, focusing on the ethics and politics of Zapatista coffee distribution. She is co-convenor of the EASA Network Anthropology and Social Movements, part of the GRAFO research group, and a member of the editorial board of Perifèria: Journal of Research and Training in Anthropology. Within PRESILIENT, she is elected representative of the PhD fellows.
RESEARCH PROJECT
Informality and Innovation: Building Post-Pandemic Resilient Communities in Mexico.
An Anthropological Inquiry on the Ethics and Politics Behind Zapatista Coffee Exchange.
I study how informal economic practices are enacted to sustain transnational solidarity relations between Zapatista communities in Chiapas and European activist networks through coffee distribution, highlighting their role in building autonomous alternatives to capitalist economies.
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PUBLICATIONS
Gambardella, M. (forthcoming). The Ethics of Immersion. Militancy, Reflexivity, and Knowledge Production in Transnational Activism. Public Anthropologist.
Gambardella, M. (forthcoming). “Our Fight is for Life”: Encountering Arts and Rebellions in the Zapatista Struggle Against Capitalist Extractivism. Capitalism Nature Socialism.
Gambardella, M. (forthcoming). Another Possible World Already Exists in the Mountains of the Mexican Southeast: Critical Political Economy of the Zapatista Experience. In B. Akbulut, M. Dufour, S. Elias-Pinsonnault, A. Laurin-Lamothe and S. Tremblay-Pepin, Handbook on Postcapitalist Political Economy (pp. XX). Edward Elgar.
Gambardella, M. (2025, forthcoming). Circulation of Ideologies: Solidarity Activist Networks with the Zapatista Rebellion. Perifèria, revista de recerca i formació en antropologia. Preprint available on Academia.
Gambardella, M. (2025, forthcoming). [Review of the book Esperanza en tiempos de desesperanza, by J. Holloway]. Revista Mexicana de Sociología.
Gambardella, M. (2024). Epistemologías radicales: éticas económicas en las redes de distribución de café zapatista. ARIES, Anuario de Antropología Iberoamericana. https://doi.org/10.11156/aries/2025.AR0000803
Molina, J. L., Pulgar Corrotea, M., Polese, A., Fradejas-García, I., Ianole-Călin, R., Isaev, A., Mengato, S., Nguyen, M., Carracedo, D., De Lombaerde, G., Avesani, M., Sasikornwong, N., Gambardella, M., Andrias, B., Massera, M., Lima, J. P., Cisagara, B., Rahman, A., Kabaghe, W., & D'Urso, D. (2024). PRESILIENT Horizon Scanning Dataset [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14285318
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