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Mariangela Gasparotto is a researcher in anthropology at Ifpo (Amman). After completing a PhD dissertation on sociability practices, norms, internal migrations, and consumption behaviors of youth in Ramallah (Palestine), she works on a project focused on infrastructures and environment in the city of Zarqa (Jordan). Currently, she is also involved in several collective projects that explore, through alternative methods and writings, futures and memories of cities, as well as urban waste in both times of war and non-war.

Positioned at the intersection of urban and political anthropology, her research explores daily forms of violence, hierarchies, mobility patterns, and the ways in which spaces are appropriated, subverted, renegotiated, and adapted through various forms of solidarity, internal and external borders, and local knowledge.​