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- PublicationAccès libre(Doing) belonging as technology of power: how the principle of ‘gender equality’ governs membership in Swiss society(2024)
; ; ; This paper analyses how the principle of gender equality informs politics of belonging in Switzerland. We propose to conceptualize ‘doing belonging’ as a technology of power and we examine how actors in (non-)institutional settings employ it as part of professional and personal action. The paper draws on two case studies: an ethnography of institutions in charge of Swiss naturalization procedures and a series of qualitative interviews with migrant descendants. It unpacks how individuals negotiate belonging in different social contexts that are marked by specific power relations. First, we reveal how ideas of gender equality shape the implementation of state policies in naturalization procedures by selectively assessing the candidates according to their national and assumed cultural background. Second, we show how naturalized individuals are doing belonging when confronting external ascriptions as being ‘gender unequal’. The analysis contributes to a better understanding of the role the principle of gender equality plays in politics of belonging enacted at a micro-sociological and individual level, thus illuminating the gendered underpinnings of migration politics. - PublicationAccès librePlacing regimes of mobilities beyond state-centred perspectives and international mobility: the case of marketplaces(2023)
; ; - PublicationAccès libreMoving marketplaces: Understanding public space from a relational mobility perspective(2022-8-1)
; Research on outdoor retail markets has focused on the diverse ways in which markets constitute public spaces where diversity and social inclusion coexist with conflict and reproduction of inequalities. This approach has prompted existing studies to focus on place-politics in terms of group- and spatially-bounded processes. In this paper, we take a relational mobility perspective to show that markets are not delineated and fixed entities. By approaching them as spaces in-flux, we are sensitive to the ways markets are continuously made and remade anew each operating day. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in four European countries (the Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland and the United Kingdom), we argue that 1) the practice of mobility is key to understand how markets come into being; and 2) a mobility approach opens up new questions regarding (unequal) power relations in the production of public space as it articulates the ‘relational politics of (im)mobilities’. Although the locality of markets tends to be emphasised as a sign of quality in governmental and public imaginations, we illustrate that the coming-into-being of markets depends on social, material and institutional relations coming from elsewhere. - PublicationAccès libreRe-producing public space: the changing everyday production of outdoor retail markets(2022-5-3)
; In 2020, nation states across Europe restricted access to, and use of, public space to prevent the spread of COVID-19. As almost all public spaces in Europe were consequently affected by restrictive measures, so too did outdoor retail markets drastically change. Some had to close down completely, whereas others operated under the sway of severe limitations for traders and customers. By re-engaging with the work of the late Michael Sorkin, it could be argued that the effects of COVID-19 add another dimension to the “end” or “death” of public space. In this paper, we shift attention to the tactics and strategies of one category of public figures behind the everyday production of markets, the traders, to show that markets in Spain, the United Kingdom, Switzerland and the Netherlands did not simply stop functioning as public spaces. Rather, they took on different forms that extended spatially beyond their physical boundaries. These transformations allowed for the continuation of the social and political dimensions of public space. - PublicationAccès libreDisentangling Following: Implications and Practicalities of Mobile Methods(2021-8-2)
; Schapendonk, JorisThe increasing interest in mobilities among social scientists over the past two decades has generated new research approaches to deepen the understanding of people’s diverse movements. These methods have focused on capturing research participants’ mobilities, but also led to new ways of thinking about researchers’ mobilities as a strategy to collect data. In this paper, we explore the relationship between researchers and research participants’ mobilities through the idea of ‘following’. Drawing on insights from the Moving Marketplaces research project on eight markets in the Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland and the UK, we highlight the lack of beginnings and endings of following. This leads us to a reflection on what to actually follow as well as an analysis of the doings of following. This paper examines some of the unexplored terrains in the conceptual and methodological debate around following and argues that it is essential to reflexively engage with the implications and practicalities of this approach. We argue that it is more productive to regard following not only as the physical process of following people, objects, knowledge, etc., but also as a theoretical and methodological openness that embraces and articulates the dynamic and non-linear character of ethnographic research practices. - PublicationAccès libreKnowledge production, reflexivity, and the use of categories in migration studies: tackling challenges in the field(2020-4-22)
; ; Recent debates in migration studies target the non-reflexive use of categories that derive from nation-state- and ethnicity-centred epistemologies. However, what a category is and how categorization works remain undertheorized. Our paper addresses this gap. Through a qualitative study on experiences of Othering among migrant descendants in Zurich (CH) and Edinburgh (UK), we scrutinize the perspectival, political, and performative nature of categories. We show how the persons informing our study were highly reflexive when using the category migrant descendant: They contested, negotiated, and navigated it in multiple ways. Although this specific category is firmly embedded in the “national order of things”, it ultimately proved to be inclusive. We argue that reflexivity in the field can not only create space for the often-muted voices of research participants, but also helps to overcome important pitfalls that derive from issues of legitimacy, representation, and power relations in scientific knowledge production. - PublicationAccès libreEntangled Mobilities in the Transnational Salsa Circuit. The Esperanto of the Body, Gender and EthnicityWith attention to the transnational dance world of salsa, this book explores the circulation of people, imaginaries, dance movements, conventions and affects from a transnational perspective. Through interviews and ethnographic, multi-sited research in several European cities and Havana, the author draws on the notion of "entangled mobilities" to show how the intimate gendered and ethnicised moves on the dance floor relate to the cross-border mobility of salsa dance professionals and their students. A combination of research on migration and mobility with studies of music and dance, Entangled Mobilities in the Transnational Salsa Circuit contributes to the fields of transnationalism, mobility and dance studies, thus providing a deeper theoretical and empirical understanding of gendered and racialised transnational phenomena. As such it will appeal to scholars across the social sciences with interests in migration, cultural studies and gender studies.
- PublicationAccès libreThe Esperanto of the body: entangled mobilities, gender and ethnicity in the transnational salsa circuitAu travers d'une étude sur la danse salsa, cette thèse s’intéresse à la circulation de personnes, d'imaginaires, de mouvements de danse, de conventions et d’émotions dans une perspective transnationale. En particulier, elle met en lumière les négociations de genre et d’ethnicité et elle analyse les carrières transnationales des danseurs et danseuses de salsa professionnel.le.s. Elle développe un cadre théorique qui permet d'étudier le« circuit de la salsa », tout en tenant compte des pratiques incorporées des danseurs et danseuses, des « régimes de mobilité » et des positions différentes des individus dans un champ transnational. Cette recherche se base sur une étude qualitative et multi-située menée en plusieurs phases entre 2013 et 2016 auprès de danseurs et danseuses de salsa. Une ethnographie incorporée de courte durée a été réalisée lors de congrès de salsa, dans des studios de salsa, pendant des voyages de salsa dans des villes d'Europe et à Cuba, ainsi qu’en-ligne (principalement Facebook). J’ai conduit un total de 36 entretiens semi-structurés et centrés sur un problème avec des danseuses et danseurs de salsa. Cette thèse s’appuie sur une approche interdisciplinaire et mobilise des cadres théoriques développés dans des champs de recherche divers au sein des sciences sociales, tels que les recherches sur les migrations et les mobilités, sur le tourisme, sur l’ethnicité, le genre, l’affect ainsi que sur la danse et sur l'art. Elle défend l'idée que l'articulation de ces différents champs de recherche permet de dépasser certaines limites théoriques et méthodologiques des recherches existantes. En effet, une perspective transnationale combinée avec une approche en terme l'(im)mobilité peut être intégrée à l’analyse des « mondes » de la danse ou de l’art et conduire à une meilleure compréhension de ces champs transnationaux, sans négliger les relations de pouvoir globales. Cette thèse contribue également aux débats méthodologiques au sein des études des migrations et des mobilités, notamment en ce qui concerne la « des-ethnisation » des designs de recherche. En effet, les danseurs et danseuses de salsa au centre de ce travail ont été choisis en raison de leur présence lors des évenements plutôt que sur la base de catégorisations « ethniques » ou nationales. Cette thèse développe la notion de « mobilités enchevêtrées » pour saisir l’accès différencié à la mobilité et l’importance du capital social et des imaginaires dans ce processus. Cette étude développe une analyse qui part des mouvements intimes genrés et ethnicisés/racialisés sur la piste de danse et s'étend à la mobilité transfrontalière des professionnel.le.s de la danse salsa. Ce faisant, elle contribue à une meilleure compréhension théorique et empirique des processus transnationaux genrés et ethnicisés. En particulier, elle explore dans une perspective micro-sociologique comment les danseurs et danseuses de salsa négocient, d’une manière incarnée, des pratiques genrées et ethnicisées/racialisées et montre l’importance variable de ces deux catégories. Elle analyse le « travail affectif », les stratégies de réseautage et l’accumulation de « capital salsa » des professionnel.le.s dans la construction de leurs carrières transnationales afin d’aller au-delà des récits de la salsa comme Esperanto du corps. Comme cette thèse le démontre, la recherche sur la mobilité spatiale et les réseaux transnationaux à travers le prisme de la danse offre une perspective alternative sur l’organisation sociale, les rencontres transnationales et les inégalités globales.
- PublicationAccès libreDas Zulassungssystem für religiöse Betreuungspersonen. Eine explorative Studie(Bern & Neuchâtel Zentrum für Migrationsrecht, 2013)
; ; Mühlemann, David