Laura Menin
Biographic Data
| ID | 108850 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Laura Menin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Laura |
| FAMILY NAME | Menin |
| SIGNATURE | MENIN L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Milano-Bicocca |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 63 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Anti-black racism' as a slavery's afterlife? Sub-Saharan African migrants in the marginalized neighbourhoods of Rabat
In the aftermath of the 2011 revolutions and protests across North Africa and the Middle East, Morocco has witnessed unprecedented public debates on 'anti-black racism' (in French, le racisme anti-Noir) against sub-Saharan Africans and its connections with the history of slavery. By including in the discussion the voices of sub-Saharan African migrants living in marginalized neighbourhoods of Rabat, this paper complicates any linear causality bet…
Destiny is written by God
Tracing the story of Atiqa, a young Moroccan woman in her late twenties, and the revivalist imagination that informs it, I reflect in this article on how responsibility is imagined and reckoned with when human choice and action encounter the transcendental forces of destiny. Far from leading to an abeyance of responsibility in the face of worldly and transcendental powers, I show that it is precisely the idea of a divine predestination based on G…
Descending into hell’
In the aftermath of two unsuccessful military coups (1971 and 1972) against Morocco’s King Hassan II (1961–1999), 58 officials and soldiers were disappeared for 18 years into what was then the secret prison of Tazmamart. Eventually released in 1991, some of the prisoners, who survived madness, illness and death, have been bearing public witness to the atrocities taking place in this desert prison. Concentrating, in particular, on the questions of…
Texting romance
Over the last decade, the mobile phone has become an integral part of a subterranean ‘youth culture’ of romance in urban Central Morocco. By expanding the opportunities of male–female interaction, the mobile phone enables young women to explore the possibilities of emotional and physical intimacy beyond conventional rules of courtship. The desire for premarital romance, though, collides and interweaves with conventional gendered practices and mor…
For an anthropology of destiny
This preface develops an argument for a comparative anthropology that takes the concept of destiny as a fertile laboratory for anthropological thought. The articles in this collection show how destiny's distinguishing heuristic feature may be what we call "malleable fixity": a paradoxical juxtaposition of images of temporal and historical fixity with a practical reckoning and open-ended self-reorientation. Exploring the radically different ways i…
Suspended Lives
This chapter explores the existential and embodied experience of border(ing) by focusing on the trials and tribulations of Abdelkrim, a young Moroccan man in his late 20s. Abdelkrim’s biography offers insights into the structural constraints, which produce lives suspended in the borderland. His slippage into ‘illegality’ testifies to the extent to which becoming an ‘illegal alien’ in Italy can be the result both of the migration policies rhetoric…
The impasse of modernity
Following the romantic vicissitudes of Ghizlan, a professional woman in her thirties, this article explores the expectations and unexpected outcomes of love in a rapidly changing Moroccan town. Imagined as a pure and elective union between two individuals, love manifests itself in Ghizlan's lived experience as a dangerous adventure along the thin line between human agency and divine destiny, personal desires and social constraints. In the wake of…
Bodies, boundaries and desires
Over the last decade, Muslim women have been the focus of public attention in Western media and in political debates on women's bodies, their freedom and forms of religiosity. In this article, I explore the notion of ‘modernity’ as a lived and embodied experience, by analyzing the different religious performances and subject-positions that young Muslim women born or brought up in Milan from childhood articulate in their daily lives. The different…
For an anthropology of destiny
This preface develops an argument for a comparative anthropology that takes the concept of destiny as a fertile laboratory for anthropological thought. The articles in this collection show how destiny's distinguishing heuristic feature may be what we call "malleable fixity": a paradoxical juxtaposition of images of temporal and historical fixity with a practical reckoning and open-ended self-reorientation. Exploring the radically different ways i…
The impasse of modernity
Following the romantic vicissitudes of Ghizlan, a professional woman in her thirties, this article explores the expectations and unexpected outcomes of love in a rapidly changing Moroccan town. Imagined as a pure and elective union between two individuals, love manifests itself in Ghizlan's lived experience as a dangerous adventure along the thin line between human agency and divine destiny, personal desires and social constraints. In the wake of…
Destiny is written by God
Tracing the story of Atiqa, a young Moroccan woman in her late twenties, and the revivalist imagination that informs it, I reflect in this article on how responsibility is imagined and reckoned with when human choice and action encounter the transcendental forces of destiny. Far from leading to an abeyance of responsibility in the face of worldly and transcendental powers, I show that it is precisely the idea of a divine predestination based on G…
Bodies, boundaries and desires
Over the last decade, Muslim women have been the focus of public attention in Western media and in political debates on women's bodies, their freedom and forms of religiosity. In this article, I explore the notion of ‘modernity’ as a lived and embodied experience, by analyzing the different religious performances and subject-positions that young Muslim women born or brought up in Milan from childhood articulate in their daily lives. The different…
Descending into hell’
In the aftermath of two unsuccessful military coups (1971 and 1972) against Morocco’s King Hassan II (1961–1999), 58 officials and soldiers were disappeared for 18 years into what was then the secret prison of Tazmamart. Eventually released in 1991, some of the prisoners, who survived madness, illness and death, have been bearing public witness to the atrocities taking place in this desert prison. Concentrating, in particular, on the questions of…
Texting romance
Over the last decade, the mobile phone has become an integral part of a subterranean ‘youth culture’ of romance in urban Central Morocco. By expanding the opportunities of male–female interaction, the mobile phone enables young women to explore the possibilities of emotional and physical intimacy beyond conventional rules of courtship. The desire for premarital romance, though, collides and interweaves with conventional gendered practices and mor…
Anti-black racism' as a slavery's afterlife? Sub-Saharan African migrants in the marginalized neighbourhoods of Rabat
In the aftermath of the 2011 revolutions and protests across North Africa and the Middle East, Morocco has witnessed unprecedented public debates on 'anti-black racism' (in French, le racisme anti-Noir) against sub-Saharan Africans and its connections with the history of slavery. By including in the discussion the voices of sub-Saharan African migrants living in marginalized neighbourhoods of Rabat, this paper complicates any linear causality bet…
Bodies, boundaries and desires
Over the last decade, Muslim women have been the focus of public attention in Western media and in political debates on women's bodies, their freedom and forms of religiosity. In this article, I explore the notion of ‘modernity’ as a lived and embodied experience, by analyzing the different religious performances and subject-positions that young Muslim women born or brought up in Milan from childhood articulate in their daily lives. The different…
The impasse of modernity
Following the romantic vicissitudes of Ghizlan, a professional woman in her thirties, this article explores the expectations and unexpected outcomes of love in a rapidly changing Moroccan town. Imagined as a pure and elective union between two individuals, love manifests itself in Ghizlan's lived experience as a dangerous adventure along the thin line between human agency and divine destiny, personal desires and social constraints. In the wake of…
Suspended Lives
This chapter explores the existential and embodied experience of border(ing) by focusing on the trials and tribulations of Abdelkrim, a young Moroccan man in his late 20s. Abdelkrim’s biography offers insights into the structural constraints, which produce lives suspended in the borderland. His slippage into ‘illegality’ testifies to the extent to which becoming an ‘illegal alien’ in Italy can be the result both of the migration policies rhetoric…
Texting romance
Over the last decade, the mobile phone has become an integral part of a subterranean ‘youth culture’ of romance in urban Central Morocco. By expanding the opportunities of male–female interaction, the mobile phone enables young women to explore the possibilities of emotional and physical intimacy beyond conventional rules of courtship. The desire for premarital romance, though, collides and interweaves with conventional gendered practices and mor…
For an anthropology of destiny
This preface develops an argument for a comparative anthropology that takes the concept of destiny as a fertile laboratory for anthropological thought. The articles in this collection show how destiny's distinguishing heuristic feature may be what we call "malleable fixity": a paradoxical juxtaposition of images of temporal and historical fixity with a practical reckoning and open-ended self-reorientation. Exploring the radically different ways i…
Descending into hell’
In the aftermath of two unsuccessful military coups (1971 and 1972) against Morocco’s King Hassan II (1961–1999), 58 officials and soldiers were disappeared for 18 years into what was then the secret prison of Tazmamart. Eventually released in 1991, some of the prisoners, who survived madness, illness and death, have been bearing public witness to the atrocities taking place in this desert prison. Concentrating, in particular, on the questions of…
Destiny is written by God
Tracing the story of Atiqa, a young Moroccan woman in her late twenties, and the revivalist imagination that informs it, I reflect in this article on how responsibility is imagined and reckoned with when human choice and action encounter the transcendental forces of destiny. Far from leading to an abeyance of responsibility in the face of worldly and transcendental powers, I show that it is precisely the idea of a divine predestination based on G…
Anti-black racism' as a slavery's afterlife? Sub-Saharan African migrants in the marginalized neighbourhoods of Rabat
In the aftermath of the 2011 revolutions and protests across North Africa and the Middle East, Morocco has witnessed unprecedented public debates on 'anti-black racism' (in French, le racisme anti-Noir) against sub-Saharan Africans and its connections with the history of slavery. By including in the discussion the voices of sub-Saharan African migrants living in marginalized neighbourhoods of Rabat, this paper complicates any linear causality bet…
Sociology (8 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Destiny (ISS module (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Action (physics (2 works)