DASE & QPD Seminar | 10 December 2025
The DASE – Environmental Challenges, Sustainability and Ethnography and the QPD – Everyday Life, Politics and Inequalities are pleased to invite you to the presentation:

“Between Nets and Cages: Metabolic Labour and Value in the Bluefin Tuna Supply Chain”
Riccardo Uras (Visiting Researcher CRIA / Università di Cagliari)

Date: 10 December 2025
Time: 16:00
Location: ISCTE – Room B226

Abstract:
The presentation will address the bluefin tuna supply chain, exploring the concepts of metabolic labour and economic valuation throughout the chain. The session combines ethnography with a critical analysis of the socio-economic and environmental practices associated with the fishing and aquaculture of this resource.

Biographical Note:
Riccardo Uras graduated in Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology at the Alma Mater Studiorum – University of Bologna, with a thesis on emigration from Sulcis-Iglesiente from the 1960s to the present day. He is currently a PhD student in Research and Social Innovation at the University of Cagliari, with a research project entitled “Territories in Transition: Ecological Crisis, Cultural Heritage and Cultures of Sustainability in Sardinia and Portugal”. His PhD project involves ethnographic research on changes in tuna trap fishing in Sulcis-Iglesiente and the Algarve, in relation to changes in the global bluefin tuna production and distribution chain.