Julie Soleil Archambault
Biographic Data
| ID | 103146 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Julie Soleil Archambault |
| GIVEN NAMES | Julie Soleil |
| FAMILY NAME | Archambault |
| SIGNATURE | ARCHAMBAULT J S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Concordia University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1216-6801 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 272 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Corps déplacés: Le fitness et la visibilité des femmes au Mozambique
La popularité croissante du fitness dans les zones urbaines du Mozambique, une activité que beaucoup pratiquent à l'extérieur, met en relief certains des défis auxquels les femmes sont confrontées au quotidien, particulièrement en ce qui a trait aux efforts concurrents pour contrôler leurs mouvements et leur visibilité dans l'espace public. Dans cet article, je me penche sur la circulation, sur les médias sociaux, d'une série de photos illustrant…
Concrete Times
Our existence has become so entangled with concrete that it would be difficult to imagine life without it, though we probably should. Anthropologists recognize the part that concrete plays in mediating social relations and in shaping political subjectivities. Thinking about concrete anthropologically involves moving across multiple scales-from large infrastructure projects to modest housebuilding projects. This review asks what we might gain from…
Sweaty motions: Materiality, meaning, and the emerging workout ethic in Mozambique
In Mozambique, class and gender have long produced sweating bodies entangled in hierarchies of care and labor. Today, the growing popularity of fitness is complicating the cultural politics of bodily substances, especially sweat. Challenging ideals of feminine propriety, new ways of sweating are fostering health-conscious subjectivities and encouraging alternative ways of becoming and relating. As a bodily "thing," sweat sits somewhat uncomfortab…
In Pursuit of Fitness: Bodywork, Temporality and Self-Improvement in Mozambique
Sub-Saharan Africa is no longer an outlier in the global ‘fitness revolution’. In cities across the continent, a growing number of people are adopting a more active lifestyle. In Mozambique - where only a few years ago, gyms and joggers were few and far between, and not many people would have considered working out at all, let alone in public - exercising is now remarkably popular. Based on ethnographic research carried out in various fitness sit…
L'objet de la parenté et la matérialité en rétrospective
C'est à travers un examen historique de la place de l'objet au sein des études africanistes de la parenté que cet article propose d'aborder certaines transformations tant théoriques qu'empiriques survenues au fil des années. L'article soutient que les études africanistes de la parenté se sont penchées sérieusement sur le rapport aux objets bien avant le « materiality turn » et que cet avant-gardisme s'explique, du moins en partie, par une réalité…
Concrete violence, indifference and future-making in Mozambique
In the Mozambican suburb of Inhapossa, piles of fresh concrete blocks vividly convey a sense of the momentous transformation under way in a place where building is now described as being 'in fashion'. Exuding promises of a better future, this fresh concrete is emerging amidst the ruins of a not so distant violent past, in a country where the built environment has been scarred by decades of war, economic decline, neglect and vegetalization. If rui…
Urban Precarity and Aspirational Compromise: Feeling Otherwise in a Mozambican Suburb
The rapidly expanding Mozambican suburb of Inhapossa is very much the product of urban precarity. Indeed, most people only end up there after having exhausted other options. Striking, however, is how residents have, in recent years, discursively and materially constructed the suburb as an idyllic urban place in the making, so much so that Inhapossa has become one of the most coveted neighborhoods in the area. This article proposes an ethnographic…
Rêves de béton et ontologies relationnelles dans une banlieue mozambicaine (note de recherche)
Cette note de recherche se penche sur les expériences sensorielles de jeunes Mozambicains tandis qu'ils négocient la relation entre bâtir et habiter. J'estime que ces expériences sont intéressantes en soi ainsi que pour ce qu'elles révèlent de la relation entre le monde matériel, les subjectivités et le contexte sociohistorique. Dans ce projet de recherche, j'appréhende, à travers le prisme du ciment, les transformations socioéconomiques en cours…
One beer, one block: Concrete aspiration and the stuff of transformation in a Mozambican suburb
As the world's most used material, after water, cement is particularly good to think with. And as I show below, it may also be good to 'become with', especially across the Global South, where demand is soaring. In Africa, the continent with the fastest-growing cement consumption at the moment, demand is expected to rise by 50 per cent over the next couple of years. The cement industry even refers to sub-Saharan Africa as 'the last cement frontier…
Mobile Secrets: Youth, Intimacy, and the Politics of Pretense in Mozambique
Taking Love Seriously in Human-Plant Relations in Mozambique: Toward an Anthropology of Affective Encounters
Behind some of the tall fences that compartmentalize domestic space in Inhambane hide luxurious gardens that are usually under the care of an individual who answers requests for cuttings and who seeks out, in everyday meanderings, new species to add to his or her collection. In this Mozambican city, gardeners articulate their engagement with plants as guided by an overriding principle: the love of plants. One gardener even described his plants as…
The Making of the Pentecostal Melodrama, written by Katrien Pype
Cruising through uncertainty: Cell phones and the politics of display and disguise in Inhambane, Mozambique
Cell phones play a conspicuous role in the way young people in Inhambane, Mozambique, juggle visibility and invisibility in their everyday lives. By opening up new social spaces within which individuals can engage in various pursuits with some degree of discretion, cell phone communication helps redress socioeconomic inequalities while preserving an unpleasant public secret about the workings of Mozambique's postwar economy: that young women are …
Travelling While Sitting Down: Mobile Phones, Mobility and the Communication Landscape in Inhambane, Mozambique
This article examines the ways in which young men in the city of Inhambane, southern Mozambique, harness communication to express and address experiences of constrained physical and social mobility. It starts with an analysis of a highly valued form of oral communication -bater papo- that youth, especially young men, engage in on a daily basis before turning to mobile phone use. Tying these different forms of communication together is a profound …
Breaking up 'because of the phone' and the transformative potential of information in Southern Mozambique
In Southern Mozambique, most people have a story about themselves or a couple they know who split up 'because of the phone' ( por causa do telefone). Although some stories are more dramatic than others, the kinds of misunderstandings they represent are described as the mobile's biggest drawback. Based on research on mobile phone use among young adults in the city of Inhambane, the article focuses on instances when connections backfire and when mo…
The cell phone: An anthropology of communication - By Heather A. Horst & Daniel Miller
La fièvre des téléphones portables: Un Chapitre De La "Success Story" Mozambicaine
Cet article analyse les relations entre la présumée success story du Mozambique et la prolifération, ces dernières années, de la téléphonie mobile. Celle-ci est considérée ici comme un révélateur de la dynamique des transformations en cours dans le pays, en particulier les disparités croissantes et les mutations dans les modes d'accumulation et de redistribution de la richesse. En s'appuyant sur des recherches menées à Inhambane, dans le sud du M…
Being cool or being good: Researching mobile phones in Mozambique
Drawing on my fieldwork experience in Inhambane, southern Mozambique, where I conducted research on mobile phone use amongst youth, my paper tackles issues of acceptance and rejection. As I sought to gain acceptance amongst youth I found myself participating in various controversial and, at times, dangerous activities that made me the victim of intense gossip and outright rejection by some. The fact that I came to the field accompanied by my husb…
Revolution, Counter-Revolution and Revisionism in Postcolonial Africa: The case of Mozambique, 1975–1994 (review)
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Le rural en ville: Laval
Deuxième ville du Québec, créée en 1965, Laval est le résultat d'une fusion forcée de quatorze municipalités (dont plusieurs agricoles) situées en banlieue de la ville de Montréal. À sa naissance, elle se définit comme un territoire en voie d'industrialisation et d'urbanisation rapide et totale. Vingt ans plus tard, près de la moitié du territoire est réservée à l'agriculture. «La meilleure agriculture en ville» devient l'image de marque de cette…
Taking Love Seriously in Human-Plant Relations in Mozambique: Toward an Anthropology of Affective Encounters
Behind some of the tall fences that compartmentalize domestic space in Inhambane hide luxurious gardens that are usually under the care of an individual who answers requests for cuttings and who seeks out, in everyday meanderings, new species to add to his or her collection. In this Mozambican city, gardeners articulate their engagement with plants as guided by an overriding principle: the love of plants. One gardener even described his plants as…
Cruising through uncertainty: Cell phones and the politics of display and disguise in Inhambane, Mozambique
Cell phones play a conspicuous role in the way young people in Inhambane, Mozambique, juggle visibility and invisibility in their everyday lives. By opening up new social spaces within which individuals can engage in various pursuits with some degree of discretion, cell phone communication helps redress socioeconomic inequalities while preserving an unpleasant public secret about the workings of Mozambique's postwar economy: that young women are …
Breaking up 'because of the phone' and the transformative potential of information in Southern Mozambique
In Southern Mozambique, most people have a story about themselves or a couple they know who split up 'because of the phone' ( por causa do telefone). Although some stories are more dramatic than others, the kinds of misunderstandings they represent are described as the mobile's biggest drawback. Based on research on mobile phone use among young adults in the city of Inhambane, the article focuses on instances when connections backfire and when mo…
One beer, one block: Concrete aspiration and the stuff of transformation in a Mozambican suburb
As the world's most used material, after water, cement is particularly good to think with. And as I show below, it may also be good to 'become with', especially across the Global South, where demand is soaring. In Africa, the continent with the fastest-growing cement consumption at the moment, demand is expected to rise by 50 per cent over the next couple of years. The cement industry even refers to sub-Saharan Africa as 'the last cement frontier…
Travelling While Sitting Down: Mobile Phones, Mobility and the Communication Landscape in Inhambane, Mozambique
This article examines the ways in which young men in the city of Inhambane, southern Mozambique, harness communication to express and address experiences of constrained physical and social mobility. It starts with an analysis of a highly valued form of oral communication -bater papo- that youth, especially young men, engage in on a daily basis before turning to mobile phone use. Tying these different forms of communication together is a profound …
Concrete violence, indifference and future-making in Mozambique
In the Mozambican suburb of Inhapossa, piles of fresh concrete blocks vividly convey a sense of the momentous transformation under way in a place where building is now described as being 'in fashion'. Exuding promises of a better future, this fresh concrete is emerging amidst the ruins of a not so distant violent past, in a country where the built environment has been scarred by decades of war, economic decline, neglect and vegetalization. If rui…
Urban Precarity and Aspirational Compromise: Feeling Otherwise in a Mozambican Suburb
The rapidly expanding Mozambican suburb of Inhapossa is very much the product of urban precarity. Indeed, most people only end up there after having exhausted other options. Striking, however, is how residents have, in recent years, discursively and materially constructed the suburb as an idyllic urban place in the making, so much so that Inhapossa has become one of the most coveted neighborhoods in the area. This article proposes an ethnographic…
Sweaty motions: Materiality, meaning, and the emerging workout ethic in Mozambique
In Mozambique, class and gender have long produced sweating bodies entangled in hierarchies of care and labor. Today, the growing popularity of fitness is complicating the cultural politics of bodily substances, especially sweat. Challenging ideals of feminine propriety, new ways of sweating are fostering health-conscious subjectivities and encouraging alternative ways of becoming and relating. As a bodily "thing," sweat sits somewhat uncomfortab…
In Pursuit of Fitness: Bodywork, Temporality and Self-Improvement in Mozambique
Sub-Saharan Africa is no longer an outlier in the global ‘fitness revolution’. In cities across the continent, a growing number of people are adopting a more active lifestyle. In Mozambique - where only a few years ago, gyms and joggers were few and far between, and not many people would have considered working out at all, let alone in public - exercising is now remarkably popular. Based on ethnographic research carried out in various fitness sit…
La fièvre des téléphones portables: Un Chapitre De La "Success Story" Mozambicaine
Cet article analyse les relations entre la présumée success story du Mozambique et la prolifération, ces dernières années, de la téléphonie mobile. Celle-ci est considérée ici comme un révélateur de la dynamique des transformations en cours dans le pays, en particulier les disparités croissantes et les mutations dans les modes d'accumulation et de redistribution de la richesse. En s'appuyant sur des recherches menées à Inhambane, dans le sud du M…
L'objet de la parenté et la matérialité en rétrospective
C'est à travers un examen historique de la place de l'objet au sein des études africanistes de la parenté que cet article propose d'aborder certaines transformations tant théoriques qu'empiriques survenues au fil des années. L'article soutient que les études africanistes de la parenté se sont penchées sérieusement sur le rapport aux objets bien avant le « materiality turn » et que cet avant-gardisme s'explique, du moins en partie, par une réalité…
Being cool or being good: Researching mobile phones in Mozambique
Drawing on my fieldwork experience in Inhambane, southern Mozambique, where I conducted research on mobile phone use amongst youth, my paper tackles issues of acceptance and rejection. As I sought to gain acceptance amongst youth I found myself participating in various controversial and, at times, dangerous activities that made me the victim of intense gossip and outright rejection by some. The fact that I came to the field accompanied by my husb…
Concrete Times
Our existence has become so entangled with concrete that it would be difficult to imagine life without it, though we probably should. Anthropologists recognize the part that concrete plays in mediating social relations and in shaping political subjectivities. Thinking about concrete anthropologically involves moving across multiple scales-from large infrastructure projects to modest housebuilding projects. This review asks what we might gain from…
Rêves de béton et ontologies relationnelles dans une banlieue mozambicaine (note de recherche)
Cette note de recherche se penche sur les expériences sensorielles de jeunes Mozambicains tandis qu'ils négocient la relation entre bâtir et habiter. J'estime que ces expériences sont intéressantes en soi ainsi que pour ce qu'elles révèlent de la relation entre le monde matériel, les subjectivités et le contexte sociohistorique. Dans ce projet de recherche, j'appréhende, à travers le prisme du ciment, les transformations socioéconomiques en cours…
Le rural en ville: Laval
Deuxième ville du Québec, créée en 1965, Laval est le résultat d'une fusion forcée de quatorze municipalités (dont plusieurs agricoles) situées en banlieue de la ville de Montréal. À sa naissance, elle se définit comme un territoire en voie d'industrialisation et d'urbanisation rapide et totale. Vingt ans plus tard, près de la moitié du territoire est réservée à l'agriculture. «La meilleure agriculture en ville» devient l'image de marque de cette…
Revolution, Counter-Revolution and Revisionism in Postcolonial Africa: The case of Mozambique, 1975–1994 (review)
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Being cool or being good: Researching mobile phones in Mozambique
Drawing on my fieldwork experience in Inhambane, southern Mozambique, where I conducted research on mobile phone use amongst youth, my paper tackles issues of acceptance and rejection. As I sought to gain acceptance amongst youth I found myself participating in various controversial and, at times, dangerous activities that made me the victim of intense gossip and outright rejection by some. The fact that I came to the field accompanied by my husb…
La fièvre des téléphones portables: Un Chapitre De La "Success Story" Mozambicaine
Cet article analyse les relations entre la présumée success story du Mozambique et la prolifération, ces dernières années, de la téléphonie mobile. Celle-ci est considérée ici comme un révélateur de la dynamique des transformations en cours dans le pays, en particulier les disparités croissantes et les mutations dans les modes d'accumulation et de redistribution de la richesse. En s'appuyant sur des recherches menées à Inhambane, dans le sud du M…
Breaking up 'because of the phone' and the transformative potential of information in Southern Mozambique
In Southern Mozambique, most people have a story about themselves or a couple they know who split up 'because of the phone' ( por causa do telefone). Although some stories are more dramatic than others, the kinds of misunderstandings they represent are described as the mobile's biggest drawback. Based on research on mobile phone use among young adults in the city of Inhambane, the article focuses on instances when connections backfire and when mo…
The cell phone: An anthropology of communication - By Heather A. Horst & Daniel Miller
Travelling While Sitting Down: Mobile Phones, Mobility and the Communication Landscape in Inhambane, Mozambique
This article examines the ways in which young men in the city of Inhambane, southern Mozambique, harness communication to express and address experiences of constrained physical and social mobility. It starts with an analysis of a highly valued form of oral communication -bater papo- that youth, especially young men, engage in on a daily basis before turning to mobile phone use. Tying these different forms of communication together is a profound …
Cruising through uncertainty: Cell phones and the politics of display and disguise in Inhambane, Mozambique
Cell phones play a conspicuous role in the way young people in Inhambane, Mozambique, juggle visibility and invisibility in their everyday lives. By opening up new social spaces within which individuals can engage in various pursuits with some degree of discretion, cell phone communication helps redress socioeconomic inequalities while preserving an unpleasant public secret about the workings of Mozambique's postwar economy: that young women are …
The Making of the Pentecostal Melodrama, written by Katrien Pype
Mobile Secrets: Youth, Intimacy, and the Politics of Pretense in Mozambique
Taking Love Seriously in Human-Plant Relations in Mozambique: Toward an Anthropology of Affective Encounters
Behind some of the tall fences that compartmentalize domestic space in Inhambane hide luxurious gardens that are usually under the care of an individual who answers requests for cuttings and who seeks out, in everyday meanderings, new species to add to his or her collection. In this Mozambican city, gardeners articulate their engagement with plants as guided by an overriding principle: the love of plants. One gardener even described his plants as…
One beer, one block: Concrete aspiration and the stuff of transformation in a Mozambican suburb
As the world's most used material, after water, cement is particularly good to think with. And as I show below, it may also be good to 'become with', especially across the Global South, where demand is soaring. In Africa, the continent with the fastest-growing cement consumption at the moment, demand is expected to rise by 50 per cent over the next couple of years. The cement industry even refers to sub-Saharan Africa as 'the last cement frontier…
Rêves de béton et ontologies relationnelles dans une banlieue mozambicaine (note de recherche)
Cette note de recherche se penche sur les expériences sensorielles de jeunes Mozambicains tandis qu'ils négocient la relation entre bâtir et habiter. J'estime que ces expériences sont intéressantes en soi ainsi que pour ce qu'elles révèlent de la relation entre le monde matériel, les subjectivités et le contexte sociohistorique. Dans ce projet de recherche, j'appréhende, à travers le prisme du ciment, les transformations socioéconomiques en cours…
In Pursuit of Fitness: Bodywork, Temporality and Self-Improvement in Mozambique
Sub-Saharan Africa is no longer an outlier in the global ‘fitness revolution’. In cities across the continent, a growing number of people are adopting a more active lifestyle. In Mozambique - where only a few years ago, gyms and joggers were few and far between, and not many people would have considered working out at all, let alone in public - exercising is now remarkably popular. Based on ethnographic research carried out in various fitness sit…
L'objet de la parenté et la matérialité en rétrospective
C'est à travers un examen historique de la place de l'objet au sein des études africanistes de la parenté que cet article propose d'aborder certaines transformations tant théoriques qu'empiriques survenues au fil des années. L'article soutient que les études africanistes de la parenté se sont penchées sérieusement sur le rapport aux objets bien avant le « materiality turn » et que cet avant-gardisme s'explique, du moins en partie, par une réalité…
Concrete violence, indifference and future-making in Mozambique
In the Mozambican suburb of Inhapossa, piles of fresh concrete blocks vividly convey a sense of the momentous transformation under way in a place where building is now described as being 'in fashion'. Exuding promises of a better future, this fresh concrete is emerging amidst the ruins of a not so distant violent past, in a country where the built environment has been scarred by decades of war, economic decline, neglect and vegetalization. If rui…
Urban Precarity and Aspirational Compromise: Feeling Otherwise in a Mozambican Suburb
The rapidly expanding Mozambican suburb of Inhapossa is very much the product of urban precarity. Indeed, most people only end up there after having exhausted other options. Striking, however, is how residents have, in recent years, discursively and materially constructed the suburb as an idyllic urban place in the making, so much so that Inhapossa has become one of the most coveted neighborhoods in the area. This article proposes an ethnographic…
Sweaty motions: Materiality, meaning, and the emerging workout ethic in Mozambique
In Mozambique, class and gender have long produced sweating bodies entangled in hierarchies of care and labor. Today, the growing popularity of fitness is complicating the cultural politics of bodily substances, especially sweat. Challenging ideals of feminine propriety, new ways of sweating are fostering health-conscious subjectivities and encouraging alternative ways of becoming and relating. As a bodily "thing," sweat sits somewhat uncomfortab…
Corps déplacés: Le fitness et la visibilité des femmes au Mozambique
La popularité croissante du fitness dans les zones urbaines du Mozambique, une activité que beaucoup pratiquent à l'extérieur, met en relief certains des défis auxquels les femmes sont confrontées au quotidien, particulièrement en ce qui a trait aux efforts concurrents pour contrôler leurs mouvements et leur visibilité dans l'espace public. Dans cet article, je me penche sur la circulation, sur les médias sociaux, d'une série de photos illustrant…
Concrete Times
Our existence has become so entangled with concrete that it would be difficult to imagine life without it, though we probably should. Anthropologists recognize the part that concrete plays in mediating social relations and in shaping political subjectivities. Thinking about concrete anthropologically involves moving across multiple scales-from large infrastructure projects to modest housebuilding projects. This review asks what we might gain from…
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