Dr. Andrea Boscoboinik Bourquard

Biography

I started my studies in anthropology at the University of Buenos Aires before joining the University of Fribourg in Switzerland, first as a student and then as a collaborator. In 1995, I completed my undergraduate work on social transformations in Bulgaria during the transition to a post-socialist society. I subsequently undertook a doctorate in Honduras focusing on the social impacts and discourses following disaster situations. Since 2009, I have been researching transformations of rural space, particularly in connection with tourist development. These landscape transformation processes have led me to investigate new mobilities and mobile populations living in mountainous regions, especially in the Swiss Alps. My latest project, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation from 2017 to 2021, is titled 'Becoming Local in Mountain Areas: Diversification, Gentrification, Co-habitation. A Comparison of the Swiss Alps and the Spanish Pyrenees', in collaboration with Prof. Viviane Cretton, Dr. Andrea Friedli, Prof. Montserrat Soronellas, and Dr. Maria Offenhenden. I have presented my research findings at various congresses, including EASA, SIEF, and IUAES, as well as at universities in cities such as Lyon II, Rovira Virgili, Messina, Timisoara, Trondheim, and Kaunas. I have also published numerous articles and books on the different themes I have studied.

Research Interests