Giuliana Mandich
Full Professor in Sociology
Università di Cagliari, Dipartimento di Scienze Sociali e delle Istituzioni
Via Canelles 15, Cagliari, Italy
Tel: +39 0706753767 | Email: mandich@unica.it
Date: January 2025

Education

Laurea Scienze Politiche, Università di Cagliari

DEA at Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, (Paris)

M.A. in Sociology at the University of Essex (UK)

Research positions

Fulbright Visiting Scholar at Harvard’s Department of Sociology (Cambridge, MA, USA)

Visiting Scholar at Deakin University School research group Critical Studies of Young People in Education (Melbourne, AU)

Employement history

Deputy Department Director

2019-2021          Quality Assurance Officer and Internal Review Committee Coordinator

2019                     Dipartimento Scienze Politiche e Sociali Board member

2016                     Dipartimento Scienze Sociali e delle istituzioni Board member

2010                     Professor in Sociology, Dipartimento di Science Sociali e delle Istituzioni, Università di Cagliari, Italy

2006-2010          Course Director of the Postgraduate Programme “Programmazione e gestione delle politiche e dei servizi sociali”, University of Cagliari

2002-2010          Associate Professor in Sociology, University of Cagliari

1984-2002          Lecturer in Sociology, Dipartimento di Ricerche Economiche e Sociali, Università di Cagliari

National research networks

Everyday life RN Italian Sociological Association (coordinator 2015- 2018)

Italian Future studies network (member)

Forwardto Scientific Board member

International research Networks

ESA European Sociological association (member)

ISA International Sociological Association (member)

COSMOBILITIES http://www.cosmobilities.net/ (member)

EVERYDAY FUTURES http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/social-futures/research/everyday-futures/ (member)

Research interests

Sociology of space: cultures of mobilities, processes of domestication of public space.

Italian (and Sardinian) youth: sociality, young people’s capacity to aspire, experience and imagination of mobility.

Social futures in a cultural perspective and their impact on individual and collective agency.

The interest on these dimensions has prompted me to use a range of qualitative methods, including visual and written fictional essays as personal narratives.

Most important research projects

2019-2021 Mapping youth futures: forms of anticipation and youth agency. PRIN Financed by MURST. Principal investigator (RU University of Cagliari, University of Milano Bicocca, University Federico II Napoli, University of Calabria).

2019-2021 Imagined Futures of Consumption ESRC New investigators’ Grant PI Dr. Daniel Welch (University of Manchester). External Advisor.

2012-2015 iFuture. Giovani, Cittadinanza, Capacità di aspirare Finanziato Regione Autonoma della Sardegna Legge7. Lead researcher. 

2006-2008 (PRIN) finanziato dal MURST dal titolo Costruzione e ricostruzione dello spazio-tempo nelle pratiche del quotidiano. (Unità locali: Università di Cagliari, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Università di Torino, Università di Pavia, Università di Napoli Orientale) Lead researcher. 

2004-2005  Principal investigator della ricerca Stratificazione sociale, modelli di mobilità e capitale sociale in Sardegna. Finanziata dalla Fondazione del banco di Sardegna Lead researcher. 

2001-2003  Principal investigator di un’unità di ricerca locale nell’ambito di un progetto Cofin dal titolo L'analisi dell'uso del tempo quotidiano: le connessioni tra tempo sociale, individuale ed intersoggettivo (Coordinatore nazionale Franco Crespi). Lead researcher. 

1993-1994 Principal investigator (with Annamaria Gatti) di una ricerca nell’Ateneo di Cagliari, promossa dall’ERSU (l’Ente Regionale per il Diritto allo Studio) Lead researcher.

Publications loot at  IRIS database.

International conferences in the last ten years

20-23 september 2023. Local Organizer of the Mid-term RN30 ESA Conference: Youth in the post-pandemic: from experiences of inequalities to new opportunities for solidarities.

Opening session (with Caterina Satta and Valentina Cuzzocrea): Togetherness in ESC mobility: between established discourses and a new affective dimension of the mobility experience (selected paper).

6-8 September 2023 European Sociological Association, Mid-term Conference Research Network 09 Economic Sociology, University of Florence, Italy.

Proponent and participant at the Roundtable Climate Change: Sociological Perspectives for a ‘Peculiar’ Research Subject.

31 agosto-3 settembre 2021 15th conference of the European Sociological association Sociological knowlege for alternative futures, Spain, Barcelona (on-line)

Organizer with Daniel Welch, University of Manchester, of the Research Stream (RS08) - Researching Social Futures (selected)

Presentation of the paper Exploring youth futurity with visual narratives, (with C. Satta and V. Cuzzocrea) (selected)

Presentation of the paper Resilient temporalities during pandemic: a generational approach (with V. Cuzzocrea) conference track RN30 Sociology of youth. (selected)

20-23 August 2019, Manchester / UK ESA 2019 Europe And Beyond: Boundaries, Barriers And Belonging 14th Conference of the European Sociological Association

Organization (with Daniel Welch) of the Research Stream Practicing the Future: Social and Affective Futures. (selected)

Presentation of the paper Young Peoples’ Aspirations. Social And Spatial (Im) Mobility In A Rural Context. At RN30 - Youth and Generation- Youth Objective and Subjective Social Mobility (selected paper).

6-8 June 2019 The 1st International Conference Of The Journal Scuola Democratica Organization of the panels Learning futures (with R. Poli).

8th to 10th November 2017 London 2nd International Conference on Anticipation.

Presentation of the paper Domesticating the future: present futures as ordinary utopias. (Selected).

Curated session Everyday futures. With Nicola Spurling, Dan Welch, Lenneke Kuijer, Margit Keller, Georgia Newmarch. Selected session.

29 august- 1 september 13th Conference of the European Sociological Association Athens 

Framing young people’s futures: adults’ narratives of youth futurity. selected paper

ESA RN 30 ‘Youth and Generation’ Midterm Conference 2017, ‘Global Youth Futures: Perspectives and Prospects’

Presentation Imagining the future: dreams as new shared utopias? selected paper.

July 15 16 , 2016 workshop Everyday Futures Network at the Institute for Social Futures at Lancaster University (UK) selected paper.

December 7 and 8, 2015 (Melbourne, Australia) Invitational two-day conference and edited collection

Young people and the politics of outrage and hope, selected paper

25th - 28th August 201512th Conference of the European Sociological Association Prague, Youth & Generation RN

Presentation Dreams of ordinariness. The missing middle of youth aspirations, selected paper.

5-7 November 2015. Session: Sociologies of the future at the International UNESCO conference on Anticipations Trento. Organizer.

Conferenza internazionale ESA-AIS From memories to the future Napoli 5 e 6 giugno 2015

keynote speaker .Stretching to the future: forms of engagement with the not yet.