Emanuela Naclerio is Postdoc Researcher on the NWO-funded VIDI project Crafting Future Urban Economies at Erasmus University Rotterdam. Her current research considers issues of work, identity and cultural production in France and Italy. In 2022, she received her PhD in Sociology and Methodology of Social Research from University of Milan and University of Turin. In her thesis, she explored the experiences of young performing artists in the city of Milan in relation with processes of individualization, precarisation and aestheticization of work. In 2021 she was PhD visiting scholar at the Media department at Goldsmiths London. Emanuela’s research interests look at contemporary transformations taking place in the domain of work and creative industries, analysing individual and collective experiences in the European context through traditional and digital qualitative methodologies.

Publications

- (2024) Flourishing on the Stage: Embodied Reflexivity and the Effacing of Work Boundaries in Contemporary Performing Arts, Sociology, {online first}.

- (2023) with Giorgi, G. Spotlight on discrimination at work: Italian actresses' construction of digital spaces of feminist struggle, European Journal of Cultural Studies, {online first}.

- (2023) Playing among passion and insecurity. A qualitative study of work in the Italian performing arts, Rassegna Italiana di Sociologia, 3, pp. 469-490.

- (2023) Self-entrepreneurship in uncertain futures: the case of performing artists in Italy, International Sociology, 38, 1.

- (2022) Traces of solidarity: performing artists’ efforts against individualisation and isolation during Covid-19 pandemic, Sciences et actions sociales, 18.

- (2022) Young actresses at work: an analysis of gender and power inequalities in the Italian theatrical sector, Debats. Revista de cultura, poder i societat, 136(1), pp. 31–48.