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M茅lanie PETREMONT, teaching assistant M茅lanie-Evely P茅tr茅mont is PhD candidate and teaching assistant in the Department of Geography and Environment since September 2016. She obtained a master's degree in sociology at the AV短视频. Her sociology thesis is on Marian apparitions and urban space in F谩tima, Portugal. She also obtained a master's degree in philosophy at the AV短视频 of Paris 8 - Vincennes Saint-Denis where she studied in her thesis the concepts of life and resistance based on the work of Georges Canguilhem, Michel Foucault and Judith Butler. She is Visiting scholar at the CRIA (), AV短视频 of Lisbon in the fall semester 2020. |
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Research Her doctoral research, supervised by Prof. Jean-Fran莽ois Staszak (Unige) and Prof. Philomena Essed (Antioch AV短视频), focuses on everyday racism and the mobilization of humor in the theatrical performance of black actresses in Europe, based on ethnographic case studies in Switzerland and Portugal. She has previously collaborated on several research projects, in philosophy and epistemology of life sciences (Paris-Sorbonne - France), in sociology of social movements (AV短视频, City AV短视频 London), on anti-black racism in Switzerland (AV短视频 / Swiss Migration Forum). She participated in the program of the Bank of Images and Visual Effects (BIEV) within the Visual Anthropology Unit of the UFRGS (Brazil). |
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Research interests Black geographies, black feminism, decolonial, postcolonial and critical race studies, cultural studies, visual anthropology, epistemology of social sciences, antiracisms, performance, humour. 听 Awards Winner of the Tremplin 2020 grant. . |
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Teaching M茅lanie is involved in the Bachelor's program in geography (cultural geography; quantitative methods) and the Master's program in political and cultural geography (documentary production workshop; qualitative methods). |
Publications
dos Santos Pinto, Jovita, Pamela Ohene-Nyako, M茅lanie-Evely听P茅tr茅mont, Anne Lavanchy, Barbara L眉thi, Patricia Purtschert, Damir Skenderovic (dir.).听Un/doing Race: Racialisation en Suisse/Rassifizierung in der Schweiz.听Seismo Verlag,听2022 (open access)听
Efionayi-M盲der Denise, Ruedin Didier, Michel No茅mi, Jain Rohit (2017), Etat des lieux du racisme anti-Noir路e en Suisse. Etude exploratoire 脿 l鈥檃ttention du Service de lutte contre le racisme (SLR), SFM Studies #67f, 鲍苍颈惫别谤蝉颈迟茅 de Neuch芒tel
Colonial Switzerland. Rethinking Colonialism from the Margins (2015), de Purtschert Patricia, Fischer-tin茅 Harald [eds.] Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, Tsantsa, Volume 21, Septembre 2016, pp. 181-183.
Chimienti Milena, Cattacin Sandro et M茅lanie P茅tr茅mont (2010). Des organisations impossibles ? Vuln茅rabilit茅s et citoyennet茅s urbaines 鈥� une perspective comparative. Gen猫ve, Londres: 鲍苍颈惫别谤蝉颈迟茅 de Gen猫ve, City AV短视频 London
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Recent Communications "Laughing back at racism and whiteness in Europe. A swiss case study". Conference On the Matter of Blackness in Europe: Transnational Perspectives, UCLA, USA, October 2019. With No茅mi Michel "Dans le train, j'existais en triple": racialization of black bodies in public transport. Study day What spaces? What kind of public? The public space: constructions, dispersions, inversions, AV短视频, October 2017. "Exoticized Representations and counter-representations in Black Stand-up performances in Switzerland", AAG Annual Conference, Boston USA, April 2017. "Humor as a technique of resistance of Black women in the Afropean space. A postcolonial perspective". Workshop Moving, moving, moving. Feminist, black and decolonial polysemies of the movement. Institute of Gender Studies, PostCit/Incite AV短视频, March 2017. http://www.unige.ch/etudes-genre/files/1614/8708/3877/FlyerA5.pdf
"On n鈥檃 pas envie d鈥檈ntendre qu鈥檈n suisse le racisme existe"[https://www.letemps.ch/societe/on-na-envie-dentendre-quen-suisse-racisme-existe]. Entretien avec Safi Martin Y茅. Le Temps, 8 ao没t 2020. "L'humour de confinement. A qui le privil猫ge de la blague en temps de pand茅mie?"[ https://www.heidi.news/sante/l-humour-de-confinement-a-qui-le-privilege-de-la-blague-en-temps-de-pandemie], article en ligne, Heidi news, 28 mai 2020. Avec le groupe PostCit: "Un 8 mars postcolonial" [https://www.letemps.ch/opinions/un-8-mars-postcolonial]. Le Temps, 6 mars 2017. Le sens des 茅changes, article sur l'appropriation culturelle. Le Courrier, 27 octobre 2017 |
M脡LANIE P脡TR脡MONT
PhD student and teaching assistant
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