Andrea Judith Boscoboinik Bourquard
Dr. in Sozialanthopologie
andrea.boscoboinik@unifr.ch
+41 26 300 7845
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6513-972X
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Lehr-und Forschungsrät_in,
Departement für Sozialwissenschaften
PER 21 bu. G333
Bd de Pérolles 90
1700 Fribourg
Mobilität, Imaginäres, Ruraler Raum, Berge, Urbanisierung
Biografie
I am a social anthropologist at the University of Fribourg (Switzerland). I began my academic studies in anthropology at the University of Buenos Aires before continuing at the University of Fribourg, where I first studied and later joined as a research collaborator. My academic trajectory has been shaped by long-term ethnographic fieldwork across diverse geographical contexts, including Eastern Europe, Central America, and Switzerland.
In 1995, my first research focused on social transformations in Bulgaria during the post-socialist transition. I subsequently conducted doctoral research in Honduras on social discourses and their consequences in the aftermath of a major disaster, with a particular focus on processes of vulnerability, meaning-making, and social reconstruction.
Since 2009, my research has increasingly focused on transformations of rural spaces, particularly in relation to tourism development, mobility, and processes of social diversification. This work has led me to study new forms of mobility and multi-local residence in mountain regions, with a specific focus on the Swiss Alps. My most recent SNSF-funded project (2017–2021), “Becoming Local in Mountain Areas: Diversification, Gentrification, Cohabitation. A Comparison between the Swiss Alps and the Spanish Pyrenees,” was conducted in collaboration with Prof. Viviane Cretton (HES-SO Valais-Wallis), Dr. Andrea Friedli (University of Fribourg), Prof. Montserrat Soronellas (Universitat Rovira i Virgili), and Dr. Maria Offenhenden (Universitat Rovira i Virgili).
Alongside this research, I have developed a long-standing expertise in the study of ethnic minorities, migration, and social categorization, particularly through research on Roma communities in Eastern Europe. My work in this field has examined identity strategies, mobility, political participation, and processes of social integration, contributing to a more nuanced understanding of heterogeneity and agency within minority populations.
I have presented my research at numerous international conferences, including meetings of the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA), the Société Internationale d’Ethnologie et de Folklore (SIEF), and the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES), as well as in invited lectures at universities including Lyon II, Rovira i Virgili, Messina, Timisoara, Trondheim, and Kaunas. I have authored and co-edited numerous publications on migration, mobility, rural transformations, social change, and minority studies.
In addition, I regularly organise international summer schools for students in anthropology, focusing on ethnographic methods and urban transformations. These summer schools bring together students and researchers from Romania, Norway, Italy and other countries, and contribute to training the next generation of anthropologists through intensive field-based and interdisciplinary learning.
Forschung und Publikationen
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Liste der Publikationen
38 Publikationen
Mountainscapes: Pathways and Mobilities in the Alps and Beyond
(Berghahn, 2025), ISBN: 9781836951452 | Buch -
Forschungsprojekte
Becoming local in mountain areas : diversification, gentrification, cohabitation. A comparison between Swiss Alps and Spanish Pyrenees
Status: Abgeschlossen