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Corinne Schwaller

Corinne SchwallerCorinne Schwaller is a PhD candidate at the Institute of Social Anthropology at the University of Bern and a member of the Swiss Graduate Program in Anthro-pology. She studied History and Social Anthropology in Bern and “German as a Foreign Language” at the University of Fribourg and graduated in 2012. In her master’s thesis she focused on processes of an increasing economization and (re-)priva-tization of outpatient care work in Switzerland. Currently, she is working on her PhD project on unemployment, precarity and uncertain futures of highly educated young adults in Barcelona. For this project, she was awarded a Doc.Mobility fellowship from the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) for an 18-month research stay in Barcelona. During this stay, she is affiliated as a visiting scholar at the University of Barcelona and she is collaborating with the Study Group on Reciprocity, directed by Prof. Susana Narotzky. Her main research interests are economic anthropology, anthropology of work, precarization, neoliberalism, uncertainty, crisis, care work and care economy, and gender.

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