Margaret Andersen
Biographic Data
| ID | 155193 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Margaret Andersen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Margaret |
| FAMILY NAME | Andersen |
| SIGNATURE | ANDERSEN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Tennessee at Knoxville |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4017-901X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 44 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Sunset chasers: The labour and rhythms of game service workers
This article explores the spatiotemporal practices of an emerging digital workforce – game service workers, who provide in-game services in online multiplayer video games. Though this form of digital labour is somewhat under-researched in the current literature on platform-mediated gig work, a growing number of people across the globe turn to so-called “Elo platforms” in efforts to make a living by teaching or playing video games with or for othe…
America’s French Orphans: Mobilization, Humanitarianism, and the Protection of France, 1914-1921
France suffered over a million military casualties during the Great War, a loss that left a staggering number of children fatherless and vulnerable. In this well-researched book, Emmanuel Destenay details the history of the Fatherless Children of France Society (FCFS), a Franco-American humanitarian organization that mobilized to rescue some 300,000 children from the devastation of war and ensure their survival. Like many historians of humanitari…
Conspiratorial Storytelling and Environmental Crisis
What happens when the narrative of conspiracy theory is used to represent the ecological crisis? Among climate scientists, conspiracy theories are often considered harmful, because they spread doubt about the global scientific consensus on climate change. In recent years, however, the rhetoric of conspiracy theory has become increasingly common among environmental filmmakers who use its narrative conventions to tell stories about complex environm…
Gig work in transnational spaces: Infrastructures of Migration and the Simultaneous Lives of Migrants in the Gig Economy
This article explores how platform-mediated gig work is entangled in the migration process across transnational, national and local scales. Drawing on the concepts of simultaneity and migration infrastructure from critical transnational migration studies as well as qualitative interviews with migrants, the analysis focuses on the figures of three migrant gig workers from both EU and non-EU countries to elucidate two matters. First, we analyse how…
At your service: The Mobilities, Rhythms and Everyday Lives of Migrant Labour in the Gig Economy
This introduction presents a framework for the contributions to the special issue At Your Service: The Mobilities, Rhythms and Everyday Lives of Migrant Labour in the Gig Economy. The article begins by providing an overview of the current literature on the gig economy and the growing attention towards its relationship to processes of migration. The introduction continues by outlining and discussing three themes that in different ways shape the co…
"Denied the Joys of Motherhood": Infertility and Medicine in French Interwar Advice Columns
The interwar period was marked by developments in fertility medicine and intense concerns about the national birthrate in France. This article explores how physicians leading new specialized fertility clinics promoted the idea that their work treating infertility medically would produce more births for France. It also shows how women's magazines in the 1930s presented new treatment options to their female readership, offering them reassurance and…
Welfare institutions as knowledge factories: Danish ‘welfare export’ of childcare know-how to China
This article examines how public welfare institutions in Denmark are reconfigured into knowledge factories. Since the 1990s, Denmark has sought to export “welfare” solutions as a way of extracting knowledge on social practices already happening in institutions of the welfare state for economic purposes. Through a case study of “welfare export” of knowledge about childcare from Denmark to China, the article analyses the Danish commodification of w…
Convoluted mobility: On the Precarious Movements of Transnational Migrant Workers
This article explores how the precarity of migrants working in the national labour markets of the Global North is shaped throughout the entire transnational migration process encompassing the planning, the journey as well as the arrival, re-arrival, and engagement across the sending and the receiving societies. Introducing the concept of convoluted mobility, the article analyses how the mediation of transnational labour migration is uneven and fi…
Pædagogik som fabrik: Kognitiv kapitalisme, levende viden og institutionel børnepasning
Denne artikel konceptualiserer det kulturanalytiske greb pædagogik som fabrik til at indkapsle den historiske rationalisering og standardisering af viden indenfor børnepasning i Danmark som et paradigmatisk eksempel på, hvordan den kognitive kapitalisme koloniserer velfærdsstatens institutioner. Artiklen diskuterer, hvordan en igangværende reorganisering af velfærdsstatens institutioner må ses i sammenhæng med en politisk økonomisk udvikling, hvo…
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Kinderreicher familien or familles nombreuses? French pronatalism in interwar Alsace
This article explores the introduction of family policy in Alsace following the Great War and the efforts of local pronatalist leaders to create a new moral order in the region. While French goals of promoting population growth have been well documented at the national level, relatively little attention has been accorded to the unique way in which the demographic question developed outside Paris. The interwar period in France was marked by shifti…
Madeleine’s Children: Family, Freedom, Secrets, and Lies in France’s Indian Ocean Colonies, by Sue Peabody
This microhistory explores the nature of freedom and slavery in France’s Indian Ocean colonies. Drawing on archival collections in France, Réunion, Mauritius and the United Kingdom, Sue Peabody painstakingly reconstructs the lives of Madeleine and her children Maurice, Constance and Furcy. The story begins in India when a young Madeleine became the slave of a woman named Despense who later brought her to France. Significantly, she was not registe…
Fabrice Cahen, Gouverner les mœurs: La lutte contre l'avortement en France, 1890-1950
La période 1890-1950 a été marquée en France par la crainte de la dépopulation et une obsession à propos du taux de natalité décroissant. C’est dans ce contexte qu’un groupe de militants s’est lancé dans une lutte contre les avortements, politisant cette question, tentant de modifier la loi et d’accentuer la répression policière pour en réduire le nombre. Ce sujet a depuis longtemps attiré l’attention de spécialistes de l’histoire du genre et de …
Race, Migration, and Fears of Communism in 1948 Morocco
This article explores a controversy that struck the French family association in the Moroccan town of Oujda in 1948. In 1941, the French administration introduced a wide array of family benefits designed to support French families and encourage French population growth in the protectorate. Initial attempts at maintaining the racially-exclusive character of this policy did not last long. Due to legal reforms introduced in France, Algerians who mig…
Thuy Linh Nguyen. Childbirth, Maternity, and Medical Pluralism in French Colonial Vietnam, 1880–1945
Childbirth practices represent an important lens through which the historian can interpret the changing cultural and political landscape of a historical context. With this study focusing on French efforts to establish Western obstetrical care in colonial Vietnam between 1880 and 1945, Thuy Linh Nguyen paints a picture of a colonial state struggling to extend its influence and engaged in a continuous process of negotiation with the colonized popul…
French Settlers, Familial Suffrage, and Citizenship in 1920s Tunisia
After the First World War, many politicians sought, and ultimately failed, to replace universal suffrage with familial suffrage in French elections. This article analyzes how this new effort to think of French citizens in terms of gender and familial identities extended to the empire with the 1922 introduction of familial suffrage in Tunisia. This reform redefined the relationship between French settlers and their government. It also shows that T…
Creating French Settlements Overseas: Pronatalism and Colonial Medicine in Madagascar
This article explores the reasons that pronatalists in the Third Republic aligned the resolution of the depopulation crisis with the fate of settler colonialism. Convinced that the French population grew more quickly when far away from the metropole, pronatalists presented colonial emigration and settlement as means by which to strengthen the French race. The demographic importance that pronatalists attached to imperialism also led them to study …
Colonialism and calvinism in Bosman's South Africa
Thinking about Women. Sociological and Feminist Perspectives
Genocide? Birth Control and the Black American
At your service: The Mobilities, Rhythms and Everyday Lives of Migrant Labour in the Gig Economy
This introduction presents a framework for the contributions to the special issue At Your Service: The Mobilities, Rhythms and Everyday Lives of Migrant Labour in the Gig Economy. The article begins by providing an overview of the current literature on the gig economy and the growing attention towards its relationship to processes of migration. The introduction continues by outlining and discussing three themes that in different ways shape the co…
Gig work in transnational spaces: Infrastructures of Migration and the Simultaneous Lives of Migrants in the Gig Economy
This article explores how platform-mediated gig work is entangled in the migration process across transnational, national and local scales. Drawing on the concepts of simultaneity and migration infrastructure from critical transnational migration studies as well as qualitative interviews with migrants, the analysis focuses on the figures of three migrant gig workers from both EU and non-EU countries to elucidate two matters. First, we analyse how…
Convoluted mobility: On the Precarious Movements of Transnational Migrant Workers
This article explores how the precarity of migrants working in the national labour markets of the Global North is shaped throughout the entire transnational migration process encompassing the planning, the journey as well as the arrival, re-arrival, and engagement across the sending and the receiving societies. Introducing the concept of convoluted mobility, the article analyses how the mediation of transnational labour migration is uneven and fi…
Creating French Settlements Overseas: Pronatalism and Colonial Medicine in Madagascar
This article explores the reasons that pronatalists in the Third Republic aligned the resolution of the depopulation crisis with the fate of settler colonialism. Convinced that the French population grew more quickly when far away from the metropole, pronatalists presented colonial emigration and settlement as means by which to strengthen the French race. The demographic importance that pronatalists attached to imperialism also led them to study …
Race, Migration, and Fears of Communism in 1948 Morocco
This article explores a controversy that struck the French family association in the Moroccan town of Oujda in 1948. In 1941, the French administration introduced a wide array of family benefits designed to support French families and encourage French population growth in the protectorate. Initial attempts at maintaining the racially-exclusive character of this policy did not last long. Due to legal reforms introduced in France, Algerians who mig…
French Settlers, Familial Suffrage, and Citizenship in 1920s Tunisia
After the First World War, many politicians sought, and ultimately failed, to replace universal suffrage with familial suffrage in French elections. This article analyzes how this new effort to think of French citizens in terms of gender and familial identities extended to the empire with the 1922 introduction of familial suffrage in Tunisia. This reform redefined the relationship between French settlers and their government. It also shows that T…
Genocide? Birth Control and the Black American
Thinking about Women. Sociological and Feminist Perspectives
Colonialism and calvinism in Bosman's South Africa
Creating French Settlements Overseas: Pronatalism and Colonial Medicine in Madagascar
This article explores the reasons that pronatalists in the Third Republic aligned the resolution of the depopulation crisis with the fate of settler colonialism. Convinced that the French population grew more quickly when far away from the metropole, pronatalists presented colonial emigration and settlement as means by which to strengthen the French race. The demographic importance that pronatalists attached to imperialism also led them to study …
French Settlers, Familial Suffrage, and Citizenship in 1920s Tunisia
After the First World War, many politicians sought, and ultimately failed, to replace universal suffrage with familial suffrage in French elections. This article analyzes how this new effort to think of French citizens in terms of gender and familial identities extended to the empire with the 1922 introduction of familial suffrage in Tunisia. This reform redefined the relationship between French settlers and their government. It also shows that T…
Race, Migration, and Fears of Communism in 1948 Morocco
This article explores a controversy that struck the French family association in the Moroccan town of Oujda in 1948. In 1941, the French administration introduced a wide array of family benefits designed to support French families and encourage French population growth in the protectorate. Initial attempts at maintaining the racially-exclusive character of this policy did not last long. Due to legal reforms introduced in France, Algerians who mig…
Thuy Linh Nguyen. Childbirth, Maternity, and Medical Pluralism in French Colonial Vietnam, 1880–1945
Childbirth practices represent an important lens through which the historian can interpret the changing cultural and political landscape of a historical context. With this study focusing on French efforts to establish Western obstetrical care in colonial Vietnam between 1880 and 1945, Thuy Linh Nguyen paints a picture of a colonial state struggling to extend its influence and engaged in a continuous process of negotiation with the colonized popul…
Madeleine’s Children: Family, Freedom, Secrets, and Lies in France’s Indian Ocean Colonies, by Sue Peabody
This microhistory explores the nature of freedom and slavery in France’s Indian Ocean colonies. Drawing on archival collections in France, Réunion, Mauritius and the United Kingdom, Sue Peabody painstakingly reconstructs the lives of Madeleine and her children Maurice, Constance and Furcy. The story begins in India when a young Madeleine became the slave of a woman named Despense who later brought her to France. Significantly, she was not registe…
Fabrice Cahen, Gouverner les mœurs: La lutte contre l'avortement en France, 1890-1950
La période 1890-1950 a été marquée en France par la crainte de la dépopulation et une obsession à propos du taux de natalité décroissant. C’est dans ce contexte qu’un groupe de militants s’est lancé dans une lutte contre les avortements, politisant cette question, tentant de modifier la loi et d’accentuer la répression policière pour en réduire le nombre. Ce sujet a depuis longtemps attiré l’attention de spécialistes de l’histoire du genre et de …
Anmeldelser
Kinderreicher familien or familles nombreuses? French pronatalism in interwar Alsace
This article explores the introduction of family policy in Alsace following the Great War and the efforts of local pronatalist leaders to create a new moral order in the region. While French goals of promoting population growth have been well documented at the national level, relatively little attention has been accorded to the unique way in which the demographic question developed outside Paris. The interwar period in France was marked by shifti…
Pædagogik som fabrik: Kognitiv kapitalisme, levende viden og institutionel børnepasning
Denne artikel konceptualiserer det kulturanalytiske greb pædagogik som fabrik til at indkapsle den historiske rationalisering og standardisering af viden indenfor børnepasning i Danmark som et paradigmatisk eksempel på, hvordan den kognitive kapitalisme koloniserer velfærdsstatens institutioner. Artiklen diskuterer, hvordan en igangværende reorganisering af velfærdsstatens institutioner må ses i sammenhæng med en politisk økonomisk udvikling, hvo…
"Denied the Joys of Motherhood": Infertility and Medicine in French Interwar Advice Columns
The interwar period was marked by developments in fertility medicine and intense concerns about the national birthrate in France. This article explores how physicians leading new specialized fertility clinics promoted the idea that their work treating infertility medically would produce more births for France. It also shows how women's magazines in the 1930s presented new treatment options to their female readership, offering them reassurance and…
Welfare institutions as knowledge factories: Danish ‘welfare export’ of childcare know-how to China
This article examines how public welfare institutions in Denmark are reconfigured into knowledge factories. Since the 1990s, Denmark has sought to export “welfare” solutions as a way of extracting knowledge on social practices already happening in institutions of the welfare state for economic purposes. Through a case study of “welfare export” of knowledge about childcare from Denmark to China, the article analyses the Danish commodification of w…
Convoluted mobility: On the Precarious Movements of Transnational Migrant Workers
This article explores how the precarity of migrants working in the national labour markets of the Global North is shaped throughout the entire transnational migration process encompassing the planning, the journey as well as the arrival, re-arrival, and engagement across the sending and the receiving societies. Introducing the concept of convoluted mobility, the article analyses how the mediation of transnational labour migration is uneven and fi…
Conspiratorial Storytelling and Environmental Crisis
What happens when the narrative of conspiracy theory is used to represent the ecological crisis? Among climate scientists, conspiracy theories are often considered harmful, because they spread doubt about the global scientific consensus on climate change. In recent years, however, the rhetoric of conspiracy theory has become increasingly common among environmental filmmakers who use its narrative conventions to tell stories about complex environm…
Gig work in transnational spaces: Infrastructures of Migration and the Simultaneous Lives of Migrants in the Gig Economy
This article explores how platform-mediated gig work is entangled in the migration process across transnational, national and local scales. Drawing on the concepts of simultaneity and migration infrastructure from critical transnational migration studies as well as qualitative interviews with migrants, the analysis focuses on the figures of three migrant gig workers from both EU and non-EU countries to elucidate two matters. First, we analyse how…
At your service: The Mobilities, Rhythms and Everyday Lives of Migrant Labour in the Gig Economy
This introduction presents a framework for the contributions to the special issue At Your Service: The Mobilities, Rhythms and Everyday Lives of Migrant Labour in the Gig Economy. The article begins by providing an overview of the current literature on the gig economy and the growing attention towards its relationship to processes of migration. The introduction continues by outlining and discussing three themes that in different ways shape the co…
America’s French Orphans: Mobilization, Humanitarianism, and the Protection of France, 1914-1921
France suffered over a million military casualties during the Great War, a loss that left a staggering number of children fatherless and vulnerable. In this well-researched book, Emmanuel Destenay details the history of the Fatherless Children of France Society (FCFS), a Franco-American humanitarian organization that mobilized to rescue some 300,000 children from the devastation of war and ensure their survival. Like many historians of humanitari…
Sunset chasers: The labour and rhythms of game service workers
This article explores the spatiotemporal practices of an emerging digital workforce – game service workers, who provide in-game services in online multiplayer video games. Though this form of digital labour is somewhat under-researched in the current literature on platform-mediated gig work, a growing number of people across the globe turn to so-called “Elo platforms” in efforts to make a living by teaching or playing video games with or for othe…
Political science (12 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Law (11 works) · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis (8 works) · History (8 works) · Economics (7 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Art (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Population (5 works)