Anita Venanzi (she/her; they/them) has been recently awarded her PhD from the Sociology department of the Chinese University of Hong Kong through the Hong Kong PhD Fellowship Scheme (HKPFS), and appointed as part-time lecturer in the same university's Gender Studies Programme. Prior to her relocation to Hong Kong, she obtained a MSc in Intercultural Studies with a minor in Social Work, and a BA in Asian Studies (Sinology curriculum) in Italy.
Anita's research, community outreach and artistic practice has been taking and holding space all across the Eurasian continent for the past decade. Living, working and learning with a variety of intentional communities, formal and informal movements, organizations and individual actors, their knowledge co-creation and sharing is focused and enabled by a strong sense of solidarity. The intimate and liberating narratives, mechanism and tools for people coming together are viewed, spoken, depicted and continuously open to discussion and redefinition within these relations through Critical Participatory Action Research and Critical Theories' lens.
Anita is an active member of the Decolonise Think Tank of CCIVS (the Coordinating Committee of International Voluntary Service), and the principal investigator and disseminator of the related EU funded project "Decolonise! IVS" (2022-2024).
PhD - Sociology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
MSc - Intercultural Studies (with a minor in Social Work), Ca' Foscari University of Venice (Italy)
BA - Asian Studies, La Sapienza University of Rome (Italy)
Solidarity
Volunteering and International Voluntary Service (IVS)
Transnational Social Movements
Critical Participatory Action Research (CPAR)
Critical Theories (post-colonial, decolonial, intersectionality)
CCIVS (forthcoming, November 2024)
- Decolonise IVS: Organizational Self-Assessment Tool;
- Long-Term Volunteering Decolonial Guidelines;
- Global Report_Decolonial practice and discourse in International Voluntary Service (IVS): evidence from over 50 organizations, 30 countries and 4 continents.
Venanzi, Anita (2023) Contemporary transnational experiences of a century-old International Voluntary Service Network (IVSN)”, PhD Dissertation, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Venanzi, Anita, Vincent Chong and Jessica Batke (June 6, 2018), ”Here’sHow NGOs Are Allowed to Operate in the P.R.C., Hong Kong,
and the United States”, ChinaFile.