Books in English by Joanna Menet
Entangled Mobilities in the Transnational Salsa Circuit. The Esperanto of the Body, Gender and Ethnicity. London: Routledge., 2020
With attention to the transnational dance world of salsa, this book explores the circulation of p... more With 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.
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Mobilities, 2021
The increasing interest in mobilities among social scientists over the past
two decades has gener... more The 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.
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Ethnic and Racial Studies, 2020
Recent debates in migration studies target the non-reflexive use of categories that derive from n... more 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.
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„In Switzerland, men and women have equal rights. Women decide on their lives in the same way as ... more „In Switzerland, men and women have equal rights. Women decide on their lives in the same way as men do”. This statement appears in a leaflet outlining the basic rules of living together, which the Swiss canton of Lucerne distributes among asylum seekers. Who would have thought that the idea of gender equality would come to represent a fundamental dimension of being Swiss? Today, Swissness is no longer only associated with attributes like punctuality, orderliness, hiking boots and skis. As of recently, gender equality also forms part of the catalogue of typical Swiss features. As such, gender equality is represented as setting the Swiss apart from foreign – notably non-European – others who continue to adhere to unequal gender roles. To capture this biased perception of self and others, we introduce the notion Gendernationalism.
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Unter dem hashtag #vonhier wird zurzeit in deutschsprachigen Medien teils hitzig darüber debattie... more Unter dem hashtag #vonhier wird zurzeit in deutschsprachigen Medien teils hitzig darüber debattiert, wie die Frage nach der Herkunft interpretiert werden soll. Unsere Forschung zeigt auf, dass Erfahrungen von Personen, die als Kinder von Migrant*innen in der Schweiz aufwuchsen, nicht individuell sind, sondern oft von gesellschaftlich verankerten Grenzziehungen geprägt sind. Es offenbart sich ein Selbstbild der Schweiz, nach dem Ethnizität und Geschlecht wichtige Prinzipien von Zugehörigkeit sind.
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Conferences and colloquia by Joanna Menet
6 et 7 Juin 2019, Université de Lausanne
Tournées, voyages, migrations, tourisme culturel… Existe... more 6 et 7 Juin 2019, Université de Lausanne
Tournées, voyages, migrations, tourisme culturel… Existe t-
il des manières spécifiques de circuler lorsque l’on est
musicien.ne ou danseur.se ? Comment les mondes de la musique
et de la danse sont-ils façonnés par différentes formes de
mobilité ou d’empêchement à bouger ? Une trentaine
de chercheuses et chercheurs internationaux discuteront
durant ce colloque des recompositions des pratiques
musicales et dansées qui se jouent dans un contexte de
transnationalisation. Ils examineront les enjeux de genre,
les trajectoires professionnelles, les dimensions mémorielles
ou les pratiques de création en œuvre dans ces scènes
artistiques en mouvement.
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Actes de colloque, 2019
Colloque Migrer par les Arts. Université de Lausanne. 6-7 juin 2019
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Mobilities, Jun 10, 2023
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Menet, Joanna, and Janine Dahinden. 2022. "The role of mobility and transnationa... more Menet, Joanna, and Janine Dahinden. 2022. "The role of mobility and transnationality for local marketplaces." In Marketplaces. Movements, Representations and Practices, edited by Rianne Van Melik and Ceren Sezer, 139-149. London: Routledge.
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Mobilities
Scholars have scrutinized the state-centered and sedentarist foundations of social sciences that ... more Scholars have scrutinized the state-centered and sedentarist foundations of social sciences that pitch ‘mobilities’ against ‘places’ by arguing that places and mobilities always co-constitute each other. Contributing to this debate, this article deploys the concept of ‘regimes of mobilities’ to study how mobilities are not only ‘placed’, but also entangled in, and shaped by, different power systems. By regimes of mobilities we understand all the mechanisms that differentiate mobilities into categories and hierarchies. This article argues that linking the concept of regimes of mobilities to the study of places can help illuminate how the ordering and differentiation of diverse forms of mobilities play out in the everyday realities of particular places. We empirically demonstrate this argument through the study of outdoor markets in three European countries: the United Kingdom, Switzerland and the Netherlands. We delineate different regimes of mobilities that together shape both access to, and the production of, markets. We conclude that the concept of regimes of mobilities helps to identify this intersection of multiple systems of rules, regulations and norms. Hence, the concepts allows one to direct attention systematically to the different power systems that affect the supposedly ‘mundane’ mobilities that constitute place and the skills required to navigate the related dynamics.
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Menet, Joanna, and Janine Dahinden. 2022. "The role of mobility and transnationality for... more Menet, Joanna, and Janine Dahinden. 2022. "The role of mobility and transnationality for local marketplaces." In Marketplaces. Movements, Representations and Practices, edited by Rianne Van Melik and Ceren Sezer, 139-149. London: Routledge.
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Papers in English by Joanna Menet
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.
Blogposts by Joanna Menet
Conferences and colloquia by Joanna Menet
Tournées, voyages, migrations, tourisme culturel… Existe t-
il des manières spécifiques de circuler lorsque l’on est
musicien.ne ou danseur.se ? Comment les mondes de la musique
et de la danse sont-ils façonnés par différentes formes de
mobilité ou d’empêchement à bouger ? Une trentaine
de chercheuses et chercheurs internationaux discuteront
durant ce colloque des recompositions des pratiques
musicales et dansées qui se jouent dans un contexte de
transnationalisation. Ils examineront les enjeux de genre,
les trajectoires professionnelles, les dimensions mémorielles
ou les pratiques de création en œuvre dans ces scènes
artistiques en mouvement.
Call for papers by Joanna Menet
Papers by Joanna Menet
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.
Tournées, voyages, migrations, tourisme culturel… Existe t-
il des manières spécifiques de circuler lorsque l’on est
musicien.ne ou danseur.se ? Comment les mondes de la musique
et de la danse sont-ils façonnés par différentes formes de
mobilité ou d’empêchement à bouger ? Une trentaine
de chercheuses et chercheurs internationaux discuteront
durant ce colloque des recompositions des pratiques
musicales et dansées qui se jouent dans un contexte de
transnationalisation. Ils examineront les enjeux de genre,
les trajectoires professionnelles, les dimensions mémorielles
ou les pratiques de création en œuvre dans ces scènes
artistiques en mouvement.