Areas of Interest
Feminist anthropology; visual/multimodal ethnography; anthropology of bureaucracies; disability; political economy/governance of care; economies of abandonment; gender and sexual politics; sex tourism, sex work, sexual labour; transnational mobility.
About
Currently, I am the incumbent of the Joint Chair in Women’s Studies (JCWS) at Carleton University and the University of Ottawa, for a two-year mandate (July 2023-July 2025).
My research work, at the moment, explores issues related to institutional abandonment, the anthropology of care and bureaucracies, and the social production of disability in school institutions of the Québec city region. A first project revolves around the role of school transportation in access to schooling for autistic students, in a context of crisis in these students’ schooling, as many find themselves unschooled or attending school part-time. Funded by a SSHRC Insight Development Grant, this project is done in collaboration with Dr. Laurence Simard-Gagnon, and draws on our respective expertise and experiential knowledges. The project focuses on the materiality of school transportation through ethnographic attention to both (i) official policies, managerial practices, and overall governance, and (ii) everyday, intersecting experiences of vulnerabilities for drivers, parents, and students who meet in the disabling space of the van. A second collaborative and participatory project is conducted along with Autisme-Québec, and focusses on documenting experiences of unschooling and partial schooling for autistic students in the Québec city region. I am also involved with the Comité pour le droit à la scolarisation, in collaboration with La ligue des droits et libertés-section Québec, in order to help advance issues around school exclusion of autistic and disabled students.
I have also conducted ethnographic research on sex tourism in Natal, in the northeast of Brazil, including research on questions around practices of social mobility and intimacies against a backdrop of social and geopolitical inequalities. As part of this work, I have also examined the mobilization of affective logics in campaigns against sex trafficking and sex tourism, including during the 2014 World Cup in Natal, campaigns which too often, have led to patterns of urban exclusion and state abandonment.
I also have a longstanding interest in visual/multimodal anthropology, in the possibilities of doing and telling research otherwise, and in the circulation of feminist knowledges. In collaboration with Dr. William Flynn, who has adapted my research into a graphic narrative, and Débora Santos, a Brazilian illustrator, I have turned my ethnography of sex tourism into a graphic novel, with Gringo Love: Stories of Sex Tourism in Brazil, which has also been translated in Portuguese and published in Brazil.
I continue to explore different ways of doing and telling about research in my collaborative research project alongside Dr. Simard-Gagnon, including through the development of narrative cartographies.
Teaching
Below is a list of the courses I have been teaching at Carleton University:
Graduate courses taught at Carleton University
Undergraduate courses taught at Carleton University
I am cross appointed with the Feminist Institute for Social Transformation and the Institute for Political Economy.
I supervised students interested in the broad fields of feminist anthropology, gender and sexuality studies, visual/multimodal ethnography, and anthropology of care, disability and bureaucracy.
Theses supervised
Lauren Montgomery (PhD Sociology 2021) “Carceral Harm Reduction”: A Critical Analysis of the Municipal Licensing of Body Rub Centres in Edmonton, Alberta
Sheridan Conty (MA Anthropology 2019) The National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls: A Counter-Archive (co-supervision with Zoe Todd)
Veronica Vicencio Diaz (MA Anthropology 2018) Gender and sexual fluidity in Veracruz, Mexico
Morgan Rochon (MA Sociology 2017) Unwrapping the “Truth”: The Perversion of Personal Narratives in Anti-Trafficking Campaigns
Kayleigh Thompson (MA Political Economy 2017) ‘A war for a foreign woman’: Gender, power and economic tension in Negril
Katherine Van Meyl (MA Sociology 2014) On the Separation of Personal and Professional: Sex, Work, Law, the Girlfriend Experience and the Interpersonal Relationships of Independent Escorts (co-supervision with Alexis Shotwell)
Melanie Rickert (MA Anthropology 2014) Propaganda? What Propaganda?: Discourse, Identity, and Queer Activism in St-Petersburg, Russia
Selected Publications
Carrier-Moisan, M-E, William Flynn and Débora Santos. 2022 Carrier-Moisan, M-E. with William Flynn and Débora Santos. 2022. Amor de Gringo: Histórias de turismo sexual no Brasil (trad. Dandara Palankoff) Florianópolis : Skript Editora.
Carrier-Moisan, M-E, William Flynn and Débora Santos. 2020. Gringo Love: Stories of Sex Tourism in Brazil. University Press of Toronto.
Carrier-Moisan, M-E. 2020. Brazil’s dramatic losses: City-staging, spectacular security, and the problem of sex tourism during the 2014 World Cup in Natal, Brazil. City and Society 32(3): 530-555
Carrier-Moisan, M-E. 2019. ‘A Red Card against Sex Tourism’: Sex Panics, Public Emotions and the 2014 World Cup in Natal, Brazil. Feminist Formations 31(2): 125-154
Carrier-Moisan, M-E. 2018. ‘I have to feel something’: Gringo Love in the Sexual Economy of Tourism in Natal, Brazil. Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology. 23(1): 131-151
Carrier-Moisan, M-E .2015.‘Putting Femininity to Work’: Negotiating Hypersexuality and Respectability in Sex Tourism, Brazil. Sexualities 18(4): 499-518
Carrier-Moisan, M-E. 2013. Saving Women or (Re)inscribing Exclusion? New Protagonists in the Public Spaces of Sex Tourism in Contesting Publics: Feminism, Activism and Ethnography. Eds. Lynne Phillips and Sally Cole with Marie-Eve Carrier-Moisan and Erica Lagalisse. Pp. 48-75. London. Pluto Press.
2013. With Cole Sally, Lynne Phillips, and Erica Lagalisse. A Pedagogical Conversation: Public Scholars and Public Scholarship in Contesting Publics: Feminism, Activism and Ethnography. Eds. L. Phillips and S. Cole with M-E C-Moisan and E. Lagalisse. Pp. 138-148. London. Pluto Press.
Blog post, podcast and social media
With William Flynn and Débora Santos, hosted by Phil Primeau. Gringo Love - a conversation. The Department Podcast.
Carrier-Moisan M.E. 2018. Anthropology otherwise: thoughts on a graphic novel experiment. Blog Post in two parts on website of Teaching Culture.
Part 1: http://www.utpteachingculture.com/anthropology-otherwise-thoughts-on-a-graphic-novel-experiment/
Part 2: https://cascacultureblog.wordpress.com/2018/12/19/anthropology-otherwise-thoughts-on-a-graphic-novel-experiment/
