Fabiola Mancinelli

Fabiola Mancinelli is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Social Anthropology of the University of Barcelona.
Her research interests have explored different dimensions of tourism and travel culture, including tourists’ narratives and practices, UNESCO heritage-making processes and commodification of culture in postcolonial contexts and, more recently, the entanglement between remote work and emerging forms of mobile living. Since 2016, she studies digital nomads, focusing on the intersection between privilege and precarity in their mobile lives.
She has authored the monograph: Zafimaniry: L'invention d'une tribu. Art ethnique, patrimoine immatériel et tourisme (L'Harmattan, 2017) and published peer-reviewed articles in several international journals.
Among her most recent publications: "Lifestyle Migrations in the Asia Pacific: A Socio-Anthropological Review" (MMAP Working Papers, 2022), "Digital nomads: freedom, responsibility and the neoliberal order" (Information Technology and Tourism, 2020), "UNESCO action plans as dispositifs of canonisation. The wood-crafting knowledge of the Zafimaniry of Madagascar" (International Journal of Heritage Studies, 2020). She has been co-convenor of ANTHROMOB (2018-2022) and a member of the Editorial Committee of the Worlds in Motion series (Berghan Books).