Matteo Saltalippi

Matteo Saltalippi
University of St Andrews · Department of Social Anthropology

Doctor of Philosophy
Anthropologist / Filmmaker

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Introduction
I'm an anthropologist and filmmaker and with an MA and PHD in Visual Anthropology from Goldsmiths University of London. I have conducted extensive ethnographic research on labour activism in Italy. My visual production includes documentaries on contemporary art, labour struggle, environmental activism, and migration, screened at international film festivals.

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Publications (17)
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This paper focuses on the strike among the workers of the TK-AST steelworks in Terni during the 2014 industrial dispute, and on their collective action. The paper aims at demonstrating how such collective action is characterised by an internal frag-mentation born out of a growing alienation in the workplace mirrored in the public sphere during the...
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The paper explores the collaborative methods employed in the making of an ethnographic film focused on the labour unrest at the AST steel plant in Terni, central Italy. It provides an overview of the fieldwork leading to the film production and focuses on the collaboration between anthropologist, filmmakers, and participants as well as on positioni...
Book
See co-authors and text here: https://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/id/eprint/171928/
Conference Paper
Introduzione L'evoluzione del regime di lavoro industriale è prima di tutto un'evoluzione di un sistema di controllo sempre più rigido messo in atto attraverso una divisione del lavoro sviluppata opportunisticamente per produrre categorie di lavoratori e regimi di valore differenziati. Oggi più che mai queste categorie si intersecano con la frammen...
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Il capitolo si basa su una ricerca etnografica durata un anno tra gli operai delle acciaierie Acciai Speciali Terni (AST) di proprietà della multinazionale tedesca ThyssenKrupp (TK) e intende contribuire alla letteratura antropologica sul lavoro e sui processi di ristrutturazione industriale. Per fare ciò prenderà in analisi la lunga vertenza sinda...
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This paper is based on ethnographic research amongst the steel-workers of Acciai Speciali Terni [AST], owned by ThyssenKrupp, that took place during a long union dispute in 2014/2015. Industrial production decline has transformed substantially the western working-class over the last decades , however forms of belonging that promote collective actio...
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Plastic presents many problems in the many worlds - from litter on the street to unsustainable packaging. But Dr John Hardy and Dr Matteo Saltalippi explain how there is a big issue when it comes to tackling the environmental consequences - knowing just what a plastic is in the first place. https://doc.your-brochure-online.co.uk/Lancaster-Universit...
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L’intervento si basa su una ricerca etnografica tra gli operai delle acciaierie ‘Acciai Speciali Terni’ di proprietà ThyssenKrupp durante la lunga vertenza sindacale del 2014, terminata con una riduzione della produzione e della forza lavoro, e su interviste più recenti con rappresentanti dell’USB, sindacato formatosi a seguito di essa.In Europa oc...
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This paper highlights the limits of theorising and operationalising the circular economy through exclusively discursive materials whether academic papers, policy white papers, or expert representations. Critical commentary is included which details the functioning of videography within sustainability research not simply as an observational exercise...
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RECENSIONI Ivan SEVERI | Quick and dirty. Antropologia pubblica, applicata e professionale, Roma, Carocci, 2020, pp. 182. Quick and Dirty di Ivan Severi offre una mappa con cui orientarsi nel di-battito storico, teorico e metodologico che riguarda l'antropologia pratica nelle sue declinazioni di antropologia pubblica e applicata. Con un linguag-gio...
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This paper explores the relation between class consciousness and environmentalism by comparing trade unionism and grass-root activists to generate awareness against detrimental industrial policies and privatisation processes in Terni and its steel plant, a highly polluted Italian company-town. This paper draws on my doctoral fieldwork conducted in...
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Focusing on individuality and associationism in labour activism, the paper aims to show how labour unrest rituals concerning coercion and solidarity among the Terni steelworkers relies and challenge present struggle practices built on memories of glorious past evaluating the strike as a trait of the working-class as a subaltern culture.
Thesis
Available here:https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/24091/ This thesis, which focuses on a prolonged period of unrest that took place at the TK-AST Terni steelworks in Central Italy in 2014 and addresses the ways in which labour activism contributes to the articulation of working class self-identification and consciousness. The thesis draws on an...
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The paper focuses on the production of a documentary aiming to be a democratic space exploring class struggle, and the dialectical relation between global capitalist forces and local work. Its agency takes place on a mutual basis, in a mutual “language” shaped by anthropologist and filmmakers involving the social actors’ visual contributions.
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The paper focuses on the production of a documentary made by the anthropologist and the filmmakers, together with the social actors’ visual contributions. It aims to be a democratic space exploring class struggle, and the dialectical relation between global capitalistic forces and local labour. Drawing on the existent literature on collaboration b...
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