Yara Küng is a PhD student in the project “Cultures of Speculation” at the Institute of Social Anthropology, investigating how seasonal work, migration, digitalisation and climate change are interlinked, taking the Swiss Alps as a starting point.
Yara Küng holds a Master’s degree (summa cum laude) in anthropology of transnationalism & the state and gender studies, and specialises in economic anthropology, specifically focusing on labour, migration, gender, digitalisation, neoliberalism and carceral politics. As a feminist and postcolonial researcher, Yara is also interested in questions of knowledge production, as well as in the politics of the body and emotions.
At the moment, Yara is finishing a project about suicide prevention in Genevan detention facilities, as a member of the Prison Research Group, based at the Institute for Penal Law and Criminology at the University of Bern. Also, Yara is a former member of the project “Children's Understandings of Well-Being – Global and Local Contexts”, which is being conducted at the Institute of Education at the University of Zurich.
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