Carole Ammann (she/her)
Dr. Carole Ammann, PhD, is a senior researcher with an interdisciplinary background in social anthropology and African studies. Her specialisation is in the anthropology of gender with a specific focus on femininities, masculinities, intersectionality, and queerness. She has conducted extensive ethnographic fieldwork (in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, and Dutch) in Europe and West Africa. Carole Ammann has taught and supervised B.A. and M.A. students in social anthropology and human geography in different departments in Switzerland and the Netherlands. One of her current research projects deals with masculinities and (queer) kinship in Switzerland and the Netherlands.
Currently, Carole Ammann is an SNSF ambizione fellow at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Lucerne. She is also an affiliated researcher at the Institute for Spatial and Landscape Development at the ETH Zurich. Previously, she has been a postdoctoral fellow at the Amsterdam Institute of Social Science Research (AISSR) at the University of Amsterdam. Carole Ammann received her PhD in Social Anthropology at the University of Basel, where she wrote an ethnographic dissertation entitled ‘Women, Agency, and the State in Guinea: Silent Politics’, that has been published as a monograph in 2020 by Routledge.
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Till Förster, Prof. Dr. Susan Thieme, Prof. Dr. Marina Richter, Prof. Dr. Eileen Moyer, Prof. Dr. Bettina Beer, and Prof. Dr. David Kaufmann
Currently, Carole Ammann is an SNSF ambizione fellow at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Lucerne. She is also an affiliated researcher at the Institute for Spatial and Landscape Development at the ETH Zurich. Previously, she has been a postdoctoral fellow at the Amsterdam Institute of Social Science Research (AISSR) at the University of Amsterdam. Carole Ammann received her PhD in Social Anthropology at the University of Basel, where she wrote an ethnographic dissertation entitled ‘Women, Agency, and the State in Guinea: Silent Politics’, that has been published as a monograph in 2020 by Routledge.
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Till Förster, Prof. Dr. Susan Thieme, Prof. Dr. Marina Richter, Prof. Dr. Eileen Moyer, Prof. Dr. Bettina Beer, and Prof. Dr. David Kaufmann
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driven by different processes such as economic rationalization, bureaucratization,
or digitalization, while maintaining professional notions of ‘good cure
and care.’ Drawing on qualitative data from a Swiss acute hospital, we
analyze how potentially market driven modes of governance manifest themselves
in the everyday activities of nurses and physicians. We show how
professional understandings of ‘good cure and care’ remain persistent and
intermingle with logics that we call economic rationalities, manifesting in the
four interrelated issues of financial pressure, bureaucratization, time pressure,
and staff shortage.
scientists tend to study urban life in metropolises and, hence, do not represent
urban life in its full diversity. In reality, the majority of the worlds’ urban dwellers
live in secondary cities; therefore, research on urbanity should reflect this
fact. The article argues against simple approaches to secondary cities, such as
defining them based on a single quantitative variable like population size. It
rather proposes that anthropological research has a unique potential to reveal
the urban dwellers’ relational and situational perceptions of, and perspectives
towards, secondary cities. The paper puts this approach into practice by examining
two West African secondary cities: Kankan in Guinea and Bouaké in Côte
d’Ivoire.
in the Swiss healthcare sector, namely differentiation and
standardisation: On one hand, the health sector is increasingly
characterised by differentiation that originates from
the specialisation of training, the differentiation and academisation
of nursing, the feminisation of medicine, the
migration of healthcare personnel, and the entry of men
into nursing professions. In addition, a new generation joining
the health sector labour force is challenging taken-forgranted
notions about health professions. On the other
hand, healthcare organisations such as hospitals need to
ensure they are functioning well by increasingly relying on
standardisation processes such as checklists, standardised
protocols, or ethical guidelines. For this paper, we have conducted
an institutional ethnography of a Swiss acute hospital
by employing an intersectional analysis. Based on
interviews and shadowing, we argue that the social differences
between and among nurses and physicians are constantly
negotiated every day. We demonstrate that those
differences lead to power imbalances along the intersectional
axes of age, gender, place of education, and professional
position. Our findings have implications for general
debates in health-related fields; for management and organizational
studies more in general; and in particular for feminist
labour geographies, as they place debates on workrelations,
power, hierarchy, and intersectional social differences
into a specific organizational and spatial context.
African continent call for a more differentiated examination
of the complex experiences and representations of men
than is offered by the discourse on the ‘crisis of masculinity’,
which depicts men as being criminal, violent, dominant,
and irresponsible. By contrast, this introduction to the
themed section ‘Masculinities in Africa beyond Crisis:
Complexity, Fluidity, and Intersectionality’ aims to engage
critically with the concept of hegemonic masculinity and
argues that multiple images of masculinities co-exist in
Africa and beyond. To comprehend new discourses and
practices around masculinities, we must consider the question
of how masculinities emerge. Discourses and practices
relating to masculinities and manhood are situationally and
relationally adopted, contested, transformed, and reconfigured.
In this special issue, we closely analyse individual’s
daily efforts ‘to be “good men”, as well as “good at” being
men’ (Inhorn and Isidoros 2018, 2) in times of political,
social, and economic transformations. We aim at examining
how ideas and practices of masculinities shape individual
and collective agency on social, economic, political, and
cultural levels. Paying attention to the historical, geographical,
and cultural diversities of masculinities in African countries,
we discuss how images of masculinities evolve and
become manifest in everyday life and analyse how these
imaginations circulate within translocal and transnational
spaces. We thereby pay close attention to how gender
intersects with other identities, such as age, class, race, ethnicity,
and sexuality.
we argue that collaborations with research assistants strongly influence our data, its analysis and fi nally our ethnographic texts. Hence, we promote an ethnographic writing that thoroughly refl ects working with research assistants and makes this collaboration more explicit.