Yara Küng is a PhD candidate in the project Cultures of Speculation at the Institute of Social Anthropology, as part of which they investigate how seasonal labour, migration, digitalisation, flexibilisation and climate change are interconnected, using the Swiss Alps as a starting point for broader anthropological inquiry.
Yara holds a Master’s degree (summa cum laude) in Anthropology of Transnationalism & the State and Gender Studies. Their research is situated in economic anthropology, with a particular focus on labour, migration, gender, neoliberalism, carceral politics, and resistance. Working from feminist and postcolonial perspectives, they are also interested in questions of knowledge production, as well as the politics of the body and emotions.
Prior to their doctoral research, Yara conducted an applied research project on suicide prevention in detention facilities in Geneva as a member of the Prison Research Group at the Institute for Penal Law and Criminology. They were also involved in the project Children’s Understandings of Well-Being – Global and Local Contexts at the Institute of Education, University of Zurich. Last but not least, Yara has developed several ethnographic film projects and brings extensive experience as a facilitator of collective processes.
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