Sabrina Stallone is a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer at the University of Bern. She holds a PhD in Social Anthropology with a Diploma Supplement in Gender Studies from the same university. Her dissertation dealt with growth-oriented urban future scenarios in Zurich, how they come to be known in present everyday life as well as how they are "fleshed out", reimagined and contested by local inhabitants. Centering a feminist approach to the anthropology of planning and the future, her ethnographic research on Zurich's land reserves has focused on both the opportunities and inequalities that are created or exacerbated in processes of urban future-making for marginalized urban subjects. For this project, she was awarded a Doc.CH excellence scholarship by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF).
She completed an MA in Cultural Analysis at the University of Amsterdam, where she received a pre-doctoral fellowship from the School for Regional, Transnational and European Studies (ARTES) and worked as an assistant at the Centre for European Studies (ACES). Previously, she had studied English as well as Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Zurich and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In 2022, she was a visiting fellow at the Department of Geography at Humboldt University in Berlin and at the Anthropology Program at City University New York's Graduate Center.
Her research interests include:
- anthropology of the future and planning
- space and gender
- urban citizenship and migration
- social reproduction theory
- social movements in the city
So far, her research has taken place in urban contexts in Italy, Palestine, Israel and most recently Switzerland.
