Lorraine Nencel
Biographic Data
| ID | 112396 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lorraine Nencel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lorraine |
| FAMILY NAME | Nencel |
| SIGNATURE | NENCEL L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 89 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Thinking through payment in fieldwork: Changing the narrative about money and reciprocity
Ethnographic research has long illuminated diverse economic relations. Yet ethnographers have said little about an economic relation that they themselves often rely on: payment in fieldwork. Indeed, the particularities of monetary exchange between ethnographers and their interlocutors often remain hidden—or taboo. This is so even though thinking through reciprocity is increasingly important in discussions of anthropological research ethics and th…
Selling Sex-Sex Work or Prostitution
It was 1990, and I was off for my first research project on sex work in Lima, Peru. Neatly packed into my conceptual baggage was the term sex work (trabajo sexual). However, it did not take long to realize that while the term had gained currency in Europe, this was far from the case in Peru. Doctors working in the STD clinics smirked during interviews when I used it instead of prostitution. At the time, I did not ask them why but assumed that it …
Every slap demeans me’: At the intersection of disability, masculinity and intimate partner violence in the Global South
The experiences of heterosexual men with paraplegia who are the victims of intimate partner violence remains an under-researched area. This article responds to the call for more research and offers an analysis of the narratives of five working-class coloured men in Cape Town, South Africa, who acquired spinal cord injuries and then fell victim to intimate partner violence. Narrative interviews were conducted with men and their wives. Drawing on T…
Fundermediaries' in Nairobi, Kenya: Development Partnerships in the Aid Chain
By representing the voice of communities, community-based organizations (CBOs) are increasingly joining development partnerships. This article explores the inherently contradictory relationship between 'voice raising' and the politics of listening. While academia has mostly focused on the inclusion of CBOs, few studies have approached this subject from the perspective of the listening practices of 'fundermediaries' (a portmanteau term combining '…
Male sex workers’ (in)visible risky bodies in international health development: Now you see them, now you don’t
International health development discourse constructs and regulates male sex workers as risky bodies in need of interventions for HIV. Drawing on ethnographic research among male sex workers and interviews with development sector actors in Nairobi, Kenya, this paper shows how the identification of male sex workers as a high-risk group for HIV offers a singular conceptualisation of their bodies as risky and renders invisible broader everyday strug…
Using Economic Diaries in an Ethnographic Study: What They Can Tell About the Financial and Daily Lives of Male and Female Sex Workers in Mombasa
This article has two objectives: first, to contribute to the academic understanding of the relationship of money with sex work by going beyond purely instrumentalist conceptualizations; and second, to inform interventions aiming to empower sex workers’ economically. Qualitative research was conducted to better understand the financial lives of sex workers in Mombasa, Kenya. The article draws largely on a participatory method using 12 economic dia…
Reconfiguring Stigma in Studies of Sex for Sale
Reconfiguring Stigma in Studies of Sex for Sale is about the production and effects of stigma in sex work or prostitution with contributions from four continents and different disciplines that taken together explore how such stigma is conditioned by differences in time, place, citizenship, gender, sexuality, class and race. Stigma is about relationships between people and also sets an interpretative frame whereby people understand and react to si…
Taking small steps: Sensitising the police through male sex workers’ community-led advocacy in Nairobi, Kenya
Kenyan sex worker-led organisations (SWLOs) often play a key role in the national HIV response. Accounts of these organisations frequently focus on their community-led approaches to promote sexual health. This paper addresses sensitisation, an underexplored but significant activity in the political agency of sex workers (SWs). Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in a male SWLO in Nairobi, we examine how male SWs strategically use their position in …
Invisible mobilities: Stigma, immobilities, and female sex workers' mundane socio-legal negotiations of Dhaka's urban space
Drawing on ethnography, this paper conceptualizes invisible mobilities by exploring the linkages between mobility, invisibility and hotel and residence based sex work in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Since both are illegal in Bangladesh, hotel and residence based sex workers (HRSWs) become targets of the different laws and sex work related social stigma. We show, in this paper, how invisible mobilities is used to strategize and counter-enact against the exi…
On Tensions and Opportunities: Building Partnerships Between Government and Sex Worker-Led Organizations in Kenya in the Fight Against HIV/Aids
This research reveals how the experienced “tokenism” by sex workers’ representatives who take part in HIV prevention and care partnerships hinges on a lack of expertise by “technical experts” to make use of the different types of knowledge brought to the policy table by them. The article further explores other tensions and opportunities within HIV prevention and care partnerships in Kenya, including the effect of criminalization and devolution on…
Labeling Same-Sex Sexuality in a Tolerant Society That Values Normality: The Dutch Case
Studies have pointed to a trend in Western societies toward the normalization of homosexuality and emerging "post-gayness" among young people, who no longer consider their sexual identity meaningful in defining themselves. This article takes a closer look at the Dutch case where tolerance is regarded as a national virtue, while society remains heteronormative. In 38 interviews with Dutch same-sex-attracted young people, we investigated the labels…
Negotiating the city: Exploring the intersecting vulnerabilities of non-national migrant mothers who sell sex in Johannesburg, South Africa
This article explores the intersecting vulnerabilities of non-national migrant mothers who sell sex in Johannesburg, South Africa – one of the most unequal cities in the world. Migrants who struggle to access the benefits of the city live and work in precarious peripheral spaces where they experience intersecting vulnerabilities associated with gender norms, race, and nationality. These vulnerabilities manifest as abuse, discrimination, criminali…
Applied Anthropologists in the Field
Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Casper G. Bendixsen, P. Stanley Yoder, Sally Hendriks, Lise Woensdregt, Lorraine Nencel, Onkokame Ratanang Mosweu, Nikodemus Aoxamub, Pamela Chakuvinga, Charmaine Dube, Ingeborg van Beekum, Ann Louise Tezak; Applied Anthropologists in th…
Situating reflexivity: Voices, positionalities and representations in feminist ethnographic texts
Begging as a Path to Progress. Indigenous Women and Children and the Struggle for Ecuador's Urban Spaces - by Swanson, Kate
Border skirmishes and the question of belonging: An authoethnographic account of everyday exclusion in multicultural society
Transnational migration has transformed most European countries, making the problem of how to ‘integrate’ an increasingly popular topic in public debates and social policy. It is assumed that as long as the newcomer learns the language, adapts to the local customs and finds work, s/he will be integrated and welcomed with open arms as a full-fledged member of society. Based on an autoethnography of our experiences as US-born, long-term and fully ‘…
Sex at the Margins: Migration, Labour Markets and the Rescue Industry by Laura María Agustín
Que Viva La Minifalda!’ Secretaries, Miniskirts and Daily Practices of Sexuality in the Public Sector in Lima
This article explores the construction of hegemonic sexuality in daily practice. The first part recounts the story of two moments in Lima when attempts were made to forbid the miniskirt in the workplace. The second part explores female secretaries’ experiences and perceptions of the miniskirt and the connected issues of their appearance and identity. The article argues that the miniskirt is imbued with sexual meanings that reflect the hegemonic c…
Feeling Gender Speak: Intersubjectivity and Fieldwork Practice with Women Who Prostitute in Lima, Peru
This article discusses a dimension of fieldwork methodology often overlooked. It concerns the act of feeling (inferences) and how this subjective ability contributes to understanding cultural meanings, which are unspoken or encoded in dialogue, but remain unarticulated. The discovery of this dimension in fieldwork eventually brought several epistemological principles into question pertaining to power and intersubjectivity subscribed to in a femin…
Gendered Modernities: Ethnographic Perspectives
Gendered Modernities: Ethnographic Perspectives. Dorothy L. Hodgson. ed. New York: Palgrave, 2001. vii. 271 pp., figures, photographs, index
Ethnography and Prostitution in Peru
Digging into the Past and Coming up with the Future: Reflections on 'Archaeology and the Integrated Circus
Critique de l'article de B. Trigger qui prone le marxisme et l'evolutionnisme dans la recherche archeologique. L'A. met en parallele le post-modernisme et le marxisme en archeologie et en anthropologie tout en refusant une approche trop materialiste dans l'etude des identites
El género como sentimiento comunicable: Compartiendo el espacio con prostitutas en Lima, Perú
No presenta resumen
Constructing knowledge: Authority and Critique in Social Science
Critique and Reflexivity in Anthropology: A Report On the Bob Scholte Memorial Conference, Held in Amsterdam, December 1988
Situating reflexivity: Voices, positionalities and representations in feminist ethnographic texts
Border skirmishes and the question of belonging: An authoethnographic account of everyday exclusion in multicultural society
Transnational migration has transformed most European countries, making the problem of how to ‘integrate’ an increasingly popular topic in public debates and social policy. It is assumed that as long as the newcomer learns the language, adapts to the local customs and finds work, s/he will be integrated and welcomed with open arms as a full-fledged member of society. Based on an autoethnography of our experiences as US-born, long-term and fully ‘…
Negotiating the city: Exploring the intersecting vulnerabilities of non-national migrant mothers who sell sex in Johannesburg, South Africa
This article explores the intersecting vulnerabilities of non-national migrant mothers who sell sex in Johannesburg, South Africa – one of the most unequal cities in the world. Migrants who struggle to access the benefits of the city live and work in precarious peripheral spaces where they experience intersecting vulnerabilities associated with gender norms, race, and nationality. These vulnerabilities manifest as abuse, discrimination, criminali…
Feeling Gender Speak: Intersubjectivity and Fieldwork Practice with Women Who Prostitute in Lima, Peru
This article discusses a dimension of fieldwork methodology often overlooked. It concerns the act of feeling (inferences) and how this subjective ability contributes to understanding cultural meanings, which are unspoken or encoded in dialogue, but remain unarticulated. The discovery of this dimension in fieldwork eventually brought several epistemological principles into question pertaining to power and intersubjectivity subscribed to in a femin…
Invisible mobilities: Stigma, immobilities, and female sex workers' mundane socio-legal negotiations of Dhaka's urban space
Drawing on ethnography, this paper conceptualizes invisible mobilities by exploring the linkages between mobility, invisibility and hotel and residence based sex work in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Since both are illegal in Bangladesh, hotel and residence based sex workers (HRSWs) become targets of the different laws and sex work related social stigma. We show, in this paper, how invisible mobilities is used to strategize and counter-enact against the exi…
Labeling Same-Sex Sexuality in a Tolerant Society That Values Normality: The Dutch Case
Studies have pointed to a trend in Western societies toward the normalization of homosexuality and emerging "post-gayness" among young people, who no longer consider their sexual identity meaningful in defining themselves. This article takes a closer look at the Dutch case where tolerance is regarded as a national virtue, while society remains heteronormative. In 38 interviews with Dutch same-sex-attracted young people, we investigated the labels…
Que Viva La Minifalda!’ Secretaries, Miniskirts and Daily Practices of Sexuality in the Public Sector in Lima
This article explores the construction of hegemonic sexuality in daily practice. The first part recounts the story of two moments in Lima when attempts were made to forbid the miniskirt in the workplace. The second part explores female secretaries’ experiences and perceptions of the miniskirt and the connected issues of their appearance and identity. The article argues that the miniskirt is imbued with sexual meanings that reflect the hegemonic c…
Gendered Modernities: Ethnographic Perspectives
Gendered Modernities: Ethnographic Perspectives. Dorothy L. Hodgson. ed. New York: Palgrave, 2001. vii. 271 pp., figures, photographs, index
Fundermediaries' in Nairobi, Kenya: Development Partnerships in the Aid Chain
By representing the voice of communities, community-based organizations (CBOs) are increasingly joining development partnerships. This article explores the inherently contradictory relationship between 'voice raising' and the politics of listening. While academia has mostly focused on the inclusion of CBOs, few studies have approached this subject from the perspective of the listening practices of 'fundermediaries' (a portmanteau term combining '…
On Tensions and Opportunities: Building Partnerships Between Government and Sex Worker-Led Organizations in Kenya in the Fight Against HIV/Aids
This research reveals how the experienced “tokenism” by sex workers’ representatives who take part in HIV prevention and care partnerships hinges on a lack of expertise by “technical experts” to make use of the different types of knowledge brought to the policy table by them. The article further explores other tensions and opportunities within HIV prevention and care partnerships in Kenya, including the effect of criminalization and devolution on…
Constructing knowledge: Authority and Critique in Social Science
Critique and Reflexivity in Anthropology: A Report On the Bob Scholte Memorial Conference, Held in Amsterdam, December 1988
Constructing knowledge: Authority and Critique in Social Science
El género como sentimiento comunicable: Compartiendo el espacio con prostitutas en Lima, Perú
No presenta resumen
Digging into the Past and Coming up with the Future: Reflections on 'Archaeology and the Integrated Circus
Critique de l'article de B. Trigger qui prone le marxisme et l'evolutionnisme dans la recherche archeologique. L'A. met en parallele le post-modernisme et le marxisme en archeologie et en anthropologie tout en refusant une approche trop materialiste dans l'etude des identites
Ethnography and Prostitution in Peru
Gendered Modernities: Ethnographic Perspectives
Gendered Modernities: Ethnographic Perspectives. Dorothy L. Hodgson. ed. New York: Palgrave, 2001. vii. 271 pp., figures, photographs, index
Feeling Gender Speak: Intersubjectivity and Fieldwork Practice with Women Who Prostitute in Lima, Peru
This article discusses a dimension of fieldwork methodology often overlooked. It concerns the act of feeling (inferences) and how this subjective ability contributes to understanding cultural meanings, which are unspoken or encoded in dialogue, but remain unarticulated. The discovery of this dimension in fieldwork eventually brought several epistemological principles into question pertaining to power and intersubjectivity subscribed to in a femin…
Que Viva La Minifalda!’ Secretaries, Miniskirts and Daily Practices of Sexuality in the Public Sector in Lima
This article explores the construction of hegemonic sexuality in daily practice. The first part recounts the story of two moments in Lima when attempts were made to forbid the miniskirt in the workplace. The second part explores female secretaries’ experiences and perceptions of the miniskirt and the connected issues of their appearance and identity. The article argues that the miniskirt is imbued with sexual meanings that reflect the hegemonic c…
Sex at the Margins: Migration, Labour Markets and the Rescue Industry by Laura María Agustín
Border skirmishes and the question of belonging: An authoethnographic account of everyday exclusion in multicultural society
Transnational migration has transformed most European countries, making the problem of how to ‘integrate’ an increasingly popular topic in public debates and social policy. It is assumed that as long as the newcomer learns the language, adapts to the local customs and finds work, s/he will be integrated and welcomed with open arms as a full-fledged member of society. Based on an autoethnography of our experiences as US-born, long-term and fully ‘…
Begging as a Path to Progress. Indigenous Women and Children and the Struggle for Ecuador's Urban Spaces - by Swanson, Kate
Situating reflexivity: Voices, positionalities and representations in feminist ethnographic texts
Applied Anthropologists in the Field
Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Casper G. Bendixsen, P. Stanley Yoder, Sally Hendriks, Lise Woensdregt, Lorraine Nencel, Onkokame Ratanang Mosweu, Nikodemus Aoxamub, Pamela Chakuvinga, Charmaine Dube, Ingeborg van Beekum, Ann Louise Tezak; Applied Anthropologists in th…
Negotiating the city: Exploring the intersecting vulnerabilities of non-national migrant mothers who sell sex in Johannesburg, South Africa
This article explores the intersecting vulnerabilities of non-national migrant mothers who sell sex in Johannesburg, South Africa – one of the most unequal cities in the world. Migrants who struggle to access the benefits of the city live and work in precarious peripheral spaces where they experience intersecting vulnerabilities associated with gender norms, race, and nationality. These vulnerabilities manifest as abuse, discrimination, criminali…
On Tensions and Opportunities: Building Partnerships Between Government and Sex Worker-Led Organizations in Kenya in the Fight Against HIV/Aids
This research reveals how the experienced “tokenism” by sex workers’ representatives who take part in HIV prevention and care partnerships hinges on a lack of expertise by “technical experts” to make use of the different types of knowledge brought to the policy table by them. The article further explores other tensions and opportunities within HIV prevention and care partnerships in Kenya, including the effect of criminalization and devolution on…
Labeling Same-Sex Sexuality in a Tolerant Society That Values Normality: The Dutch Case
Studies have pointed to a trend in Western societies toward the normalization of homosexuality and emerging "post-gayness" among young people, who no longer consider their sexual identity meaningful in defining themselves. This article takes a closer look at the Dutch case where tolerance is regarded as a national virtue, while society remains heteronormative. In 38 interviews with Dutch same-sex-attracted young people, we investigated the labels…
Invisible mobilities: Stigma, immobilities, and female sex workers' mundane socio-legal negotiations of Dhaka's urban space
Drawing on ethnography, this paper conceptualizes invisible mobilities by exploring the linkages between mobility, invisibility and hotel and residence based sex work in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Since both are illegal in Bangladesh, hotel and residence based sex workers (HRSWs) become targets of the different laws and sex work related social stigma. We show, in this paper, how invisible mobilities is used to strategize and counter-enact against the exi…
Reconfiguring Stigma in Studies of Sex for Sale
Reconfiguring Stigma in Studies of Sex for Sale is about the production and effects of stigma in sex work or prostitution with contributions from four continents and different disciplines that taken together explore how such stigma is conditioned by differences in time, place, citizenship, gender, sexuality, class and race. Stigma is about relationships between people and also sets an interpretative frame whereby people understand and react to si…
Taking small steps: Sensitising the police through male sex workers’ community-led advocacy in Nairobi, Kenya
Kenyan sex worker-led organisations (SWLOs) often play a key role in the national HIV response. Accounts of these organisations frequently focus on their community-led approaches to promote sexual health. This paper addresses sensitisation, an underexplored but significant activity in the political agency of sex workers (SWs). Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in a male SWLO in Nairobi, we examine how male SWs strategically use their position in …
Male sex workers’ (in)visible risky bodies in international health development: Now you see them, now you don’t
International health development discourse constructs and regulates male sex workers as risky bodies in need of interventions for HIV. Drawing on ethnographic research among male sex workers and interviews with development sector actors in Nairobi, Kenya, this paper shows how the identification of male sex workers as a high-risk group for HIV offers a singular conceptualisation of their bodies as risky and renders invisible broader everyday strug…
Using Economic Diaries in an Ethnographic Study: What They Can Tell About the Financial and Daily Lives of Male and Female Sex Workers in Mombasa
This article has two objectives: first, to contribute to the academic understanding of the relationship of money with sex work by going beyond purely instrumentalist conceptualizations; and second, to inform interventions aiming to empower sex workers’ economically. Qualitative research was conducted to better understand the financial lives of sex workers in Mombasa, Kenya. The article draws largely on a participatory method using 12 economic dia…
Every slap demeans me’: At the intersection of disability, masculinity and intimate partner violence in the Global South
The experiences of heterosexual men with paraplegia who are the victims of intimate partner violence remains an under-researched area. This article responds to the call for more research and offers an analysis of the narratives of five working-class coloured men in Cape Town, South Africa, who acquired spinal cord injuries and then fell victim to intimate partner violence. Narrative interviews were conducted with men and their wives. Drawing on T…
Fundermediaries' in Nairobi, Kenya: Development Partnerships in the Aid Chain
By representing the voice of communities, community-based organizations (CBOs) are increasingly joining development partnerships. This article explores the inherently contradictory relationship between 'voice raising' and the politics of listening. While academia has mostly focused on the inclusion of CBOs, few studies have approached this subject from the perspective of the listening practices of 'fundermediaries' (a portmanteau term combining '…
Selling Sex-Sex Work or Prostitution
It was 1990, and I was off for my first research project on sex work in Lima, Peru. Neatly packed into my conceptual baggage was the term sex work (trabajo sexual). However, it did not take long to realize that while the term had gained currency in Europe, this was far from the case in Peru. Doctors working in the STD clinics smirked during interviews when I used it instead of prostitution. At the time, I did not ask them why but assumed that it …
Thinking through payment in fieldwork: Changing the narrative about money and reciprocity
Ethnographic research has long illuminated diverse economic relations. Yet ethnographers have said little about an economic relation that they themselves often rely on: payment in fieldwork. Indeed, the particularities of monetary exchange between ethnographers and their interlocutors often remain hidden—or taboo. This is so even though thinking through reciprocity is increasingly important in discussions of anthropological research ethics and th…
Sociology (19 works) · Sex work and related issues (13 works) · Gender Studies (11 works) · Political science (11 works) · Gender Studies (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Ethnography (8 works) · Politics (8 works) · Law (7 works)