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How does "mixedness" challenge the shape of the desirable citizen, the idealized family and natio... more How does "mixedness" challenge the shape of the desirable citizen, the idealized family and national boundaries? This panel opens a dialogue on race, racism and "mixedness" from the complementary perspectives of kinship, affects and state institutions. Long abstract How does "mixedness" challenge the shape of desirable citizens, idealized families and national boundaries? Addressing this question, the panel aims at fostering exchanges between anthropologists interested in race and its more or less fluid frontiers and hierarchies in various national contexts. "Mixedness" refers here to unequal systems of categorization that operate at several levels and varying degrees through: 1. Individuals who self-identify and are being identified as mixed; 2. legal and moral institutions, such as families; 3. States, some of which appropriate imaginaries of "mixedness" as a national symbol (e.g. mestizaje in Latin America), while in Europe, mixedness tends to be associated with recent migration flows from the global South, and is embedded in relations of power that stem from European colonialism and Western imperialism. This panel welcomes empirical papers that question the contextual, relational and changing boundaries of mixedness, and trace down new forms of racial essentializations, inequalities and hierarchies. Areas of research may include:-Kinship and relatedness: race and medically assisted reproduction technologies; relatedness, belonging and phenotypic similarity (and difference) in mixed descent families and in families with adopted children.-Affect and intimacy: the intimate management of mixedness by individuals, couples and families; intersectional approaches to mixed individual's everyday lived experience.-The state, its institutions and bureaucratic processes of racialization: the work of bureaucrats (e.g. in the case of binational marriages); processes of transnational adoption; national discourses and policies on mixedness; whitening and the persistence of racial (national) systems of oppression.

Introduction __________________________________________9 Chapitre 1 Elicura _____________________... more Introduction __________________________________________9 Chapitre 1 Elicura ____________________________________21 La colonisation___________________________________________ 27 La Vallée et la commune de Contulmo ________________________ 30 Vivre à Elicura___________________________________________ 32 « Nos tratan como animales » : Aspirations personnelles et réalités professionnelles __________________________________________ 39 Chapitre 2 Construction de l'objet et réflexion sur un terrain en territoire autochtone __________________________________44 Elicura, ombligo del mundo _________________________________ 47 Elicura, lieu marginal et awingkaisado ________________________ 50 Chapitre 3 Comment je suis devenue Gringa ______________56 Devenir anthropologue : entre savoir et pouvoir _________________ 56 Etre seule _______________________________________________ 61 L'altérité, un ménage à trois ________________________________ 64 Chapitre 4 Le genre de l'autochtonie _____________________70 Les peuples autochtones ___________________________________ 70 Terminologie : des Indiens aux autochtones __________________ 70 Les revendications autochtones sur la scène internationale _______ 79 Les Mapuche et les traités internationaux___________________ 84 Les ambiguïtés de la juridiction internationale_______________ 88 L'autochtonie dans une perspective anthropologique _____________ 89 Autochtonie et ethnicité __________________________________ 90 La production de la continuité _____________________________ 97 Le genre de la tradition ____________________________________ 98

Colonial Switzerland, 2015

Ethnographiques Org, 2014

Ethnographiques Org, 2002

Anne Lavanchy, Christine Von Kaenel-Mounoud. Entretien avec Martine Segalen, ethnographiques.org,... more Anne Lavanchy, Christine Von Kaenel-Mounoud. Entretien avec Martine Segalen, ethnographiques.org, Numéro 1 - avril 2002 [en ligne]. http://www.ethnographiques.org/2002 /Segalen,Lavanchy,Von-Kaenel-Mounoud.html (consulté le [date]).

Journal of Latin American Studies, 2008

English term 'hustling'). The sometimes manipulative manner with which some operate aca... more English term 'hustling'). The sometimes manipulative manner with which some operate academies is a discussion reserved for Capoeira insiders because it is an aspect of the art that is only experienced by long-time practitioners and those who become involved in the day to day operations. ...

Bulletin de la société d'études économiques et sociales, 2009

journal des anthropologues, 2007

Migrations et Sociétés, Nov 2013

Anne LAVANCHY --[Refuser de morier], c'esf pos pour embêter /es gens, c'esf pour protéger Ie mori... more Anne LAVANCHY --[Refuser de morier], c'esf pos pour embêter /es gens, c'esf pour protéger Ie morioge, être sûr gue /es gens sonf de bonne foi, sinon on n'esf plus crédib/es. -C'esf pour protéger /es oufres morioges ? -voilà, exocfement, el puis ily o oussi /es oufres fioncés, ou plutôt les fioncéEs [occentuotion de lq forme féminine] gui sonf noives, qui se loissenf prendre frès focile ment. Je trouve qu'on' pourroit 1", proiég.,oussi, protéger d'qbord les gens, ef oussi protéger, sons vouloir être confre /es qufres notions, protéger le poys, ne pos broder notrepoys en permettonf des morioges uniquement pour /es poprers. -Alors flo nouvelle législotion] concerne /es unions enfre des Sursses ef des personnes éfrongères, pos enlre sursses ou entre étrongers ? -Non, enfin, entre éfrongers, ço nous orrive oussi fde mener des ouditions], mors c'esf surtoul dons /es morioges binotionoux, quord il y o un intérêt flogront rl.ciur /es poprêrs pur obtenir le drort d,êlreen sursse. si on occepfe ces morioges, ço donne une fousse imoge de nofre instifution, on brode beoucoup frop de choses [entretien ou.. Dominique, officier d'étot civil, effectué en novembre 20l O]1.

SAGE Research Methods Cases, Aug 2014

FAMPRA La pratique du droit de la famille, Jan 2014

Working Papers MAPS, Aug 2014

This essay explores the institutional production of “desirable nationals” through administrative ... more This essay explores the institutional production of “desirable nationals” through administrative procedures of marriage and civil partnership in Switzerland. Borrowing from the field of critical race
studies, it focuses on bureaucratic practices related to unions – marriages and civil partnerships – to analyse the tensions around the (re)production of an idealized “Swissness”.
The argument presented herein has a dual purpose: on an epistemological and theoretical level, it first exposes why critical race studies offer an appropriate vantage point from which to analyze
how Swiss society is structured by unspoken racialised categorizations. Its second purpose is to shed light on institutional technologies of protection of the national body in registry offices. With the development of bureaucratic technology aiming at tracking down “sham marriages”, the work of registrars is increasingly about the selection of potential co-nationals. This piece shows how the rhetoric of good marriages/civil partnerships is linked to narratives about “homogamy” and “mixedness”, framing racialised understandings of nationality.

This article explores the ethical challenges of conducting fieldwork in state institutions. It cr... more This article explores the ethical challenges of conducting fieldwork in state institutions. It critically engages with the chain of competing claims and multiple loyalties that confront social researchers, and addresses as the main question: how does working with people with whose goals one fundamentally disagrees shape the necessity of building collaborative alliances and trust? Drawing on the experience of a sensitive and precarious procedure -the administrative hearing of two fiancés suspected of a sham union -the article aims to give situated answers to general questions about the ethics of fieldwork relations. By challenging ideas about trust, neutrality and loyalty, it explores the tensions between building field alliances and private moral and political alignments. In the light of such dissonance, the article discusses the stakes of disclosure and the imposition of a covert role in forging alliances; the consequences of working in a state institution, where 'customers' are submitted to civil servants' discretionary power; and how this blurs, for the researcher, the opposition between adopting a neutral stance and taking sides. Finally, the article addresses the ethics of unethical alliances and how this tension challenges choices in portraying and betraying research participants.

Articles by Anne Lavanchy

Anthropologie et Sociétés, Jan 1, 2008

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How does "mixedness" challenge the shape of the desirable citizen, the idealized family and natio... more How does "mixedness" challenge the shape of the desirable citizen, the idealized family and national boundaries? This panel opens a dialogue on race, racism and "mixedness" from the complementary perspectives of kinship, affects and state institutions. Long abstract How does "mixedness" challenge the shape of desirable citizens, idealized families and national boundaries? Addressing this question, the panel aims at fostering exchanges between anthropologists interested in race and its more or less fluid frontiers and hierarchies in various national contexts. "Mixedness" refers here to unequal systems of categorization that operate at several levels and varying degrees through: 1. Individuals who self-identify and are being identified as mixed; 2. legal and moral institutions, such as families; 3. States, some of which appropriate imaginaries of "mixedness" as a national symbol (e.g. mestizaje in Latin America), while in Europe, mixedness tends to be associated with recent migration flows from the global South, and is embedded in relations of power that stem from European colonialism and Western imperialism. This panel welcomes empirical papers that question the contextual, relational and changing boundaries of mixedness, and trace down new forms of racial essentializations, inequalities and hierarchies. Areas of research may include:-Kinship and relatedness: race and medically assisted reproduction technologies; relatedness, belonging and phenotypic similarity (and difference) in mixed descent families and in families with adopted children.-Affect and intimacy: the intimate management of mixedness by individuals, couples and families; intersectional approaches to mixed individual's everyday lived experience.-The state, its institutions and bureaucratic processes of racialization: the work of bureaucrats (e.g. in the case of binational marriages); processes of transnational adoption; national discourses and policies on mixedness; whitening and the persistence of racial (national) systems of oppression.

Introduction __________________________________________9 Chapitre 1 Elicura _____________________... more Introduction __________________________________________9 Chapitre 1 Elicura ____________________________________21 La colonisation___________________________________________ 27 La Vallée et la commune de Contulmo ________________________ 30 Vivre à Elicura___________________________________________ 32 « Nos tratan como animales » : Aspirations personnelles et réalités professionnelles __________________________________________ 39 Chapitre 2 Construction de l'objet et réflexion sur un terrain en territoire autochtone __________________________________44 Elicura, ombligo del mundo _________________________________ 47 Elicura, lieu marginal et awingkaisado ________________________ 50 Chapitre 3 Comment je suis devenue Gringa ______________56 Devenir anthropologue : entre savoir et pouvoir _________________ 56 Etre seule _______________________________________________ 61 L'altérité, un ménage à trois ________________________________ 64 Chapitre 4 Le genre de l'autochtonie _____________________70 Les peuples autochtones ___________________________________ 70 Terminologie : des Indiens aux autochtones __________________ 70 Les revendications autochtones sur la scène internationale _______ 79 Les Mapuche et les traités internationaux___________________ 84 Les ambiguïtés de la juridiction internationale_______________ 88 L'autochtonie dans une perspective anthropologique _____________ 89 Autochtonie et ethnicité __________________________________ 90 La production de la continuité _____________________________ 97 Le genre de la tradition ____________________________________ 98

Colonial Switzerland, 2015

Ethnographiques Org, 2014

Ethnographiques Org, 2002

Anne Lavanchy, Christine Von Kaenel-Mounoud. Entretien avec Martine Segalen, ethnographiques.org,... more Anne Lavanchy, Christine Von Kaenel-Mounoud. Entretien avec Martine Segalen, ethnographiques.org, Numéro 1 - avril 2002 [en ligne]. http://www.ethnographiques.org/2002 /Segalen,Lavanchy,Von-Kaenel-Mounoud.html (consulté le [date]).

Journal of Latin American Studies, 2008

English term 'hustling'). The sometimes manipulative manner with which some operate aca... more English term 'hustling'). The sometimes manipulative manner with which some operate academies is a discussion reserved for Capoeira insiders because it is an aspect of the art that is only experienced by long-time practitioners and those who become involved in the day to day operations. ...

Bulletin de la société d'études économiques et sociales, 2009

journal des anthropologues, 2007

Migrations et Sociétés, Nov 2013

Anne LAVANCHY --[Refuser de morier], c'esf pos pour embêter /es gens, c'esf pour protéger Ie mori... more Anne LAVANCHY --[Refuser de morier], c'esf pos pour embêter /es gens, c'esf pour protéger Ie morioge, être sûr gue /es gens sonf de bonne foi, sinon on n'esf plus crédib/es. -C'esf pour protéger /es oufres morioges ? -voilà, exocfement, el puis ily o oussi /es oufres fioncés, ou plutôt les fioncéEs [occentuotion de lq forme féminine] gui sonf noives, qui se loissenf prendre frès focile ment. Je trouve qu'on' pourroit 1", proiég.,oussi, protéger d'qbord les gens, ef oussi protéger, sons vouloir être confre /es qufres notions, protéger le poys, ne pos broder notrepoys en permettonf des morioges uniquement pour /es poprers. -Alors flo nouvelle législotion] concerne /es unions enfre des Sursses ef des personnes éfrongères, pos enlre sursses ou entre étrongers ? -Non, enfin, entre éfrongers, ço nous orrive oussi fde mener des ouditions], mors c'esf surtoul dons /es morioges binotionoux, quord il y o un intérêt flogront rl.ciur /es poprêrs pur obtenir le drort d,êlreen sursse. si on occepfe ces morioges, ço donne une fousse imoge de nofre instifution, on brode beoucoup frop de choses [entretien ou.. Dominique, officier d'étot civil, effectué en novembre 20l O]1.

SAGE Research Methods Cases, Aug 2014

FAMPRA La pratique du droit de la famille, Jan 2014

Working Papers MAPS, Aug 2014

This essay explores the institutional production of “desirable nationals” through administrative ... more This essay explores the institutional production of “desirable nationals” through administrative procedures of marriage and civil partnership in Switzerland. Borrowing from the field of critical race
studies, it focuses on bureaucratic practices related to unions – marriages and civil partnerships – to analyse the tensions around the (re)production of an idealized “Swissness”.
The argument presented herein has a dual purpose: on an epistemological and theoretical level, it first exposes why critical race studies offer an appropriate vantage point from which to analyze
how Swiss society is structured by unspoken racialised categorizations. Its second purpose is to shed light on institutional technologies of protection of the national body in registry offices. With the development of bureaucratic technology aiming at tracking down “sham marriages”, the work of registrars is increasingly about the selection of potential co-nationals. This piece shows how the rhetoric of good marriages/civil partnerships is linked to narratives about “homogamy” and “mixedness”, framing racialised understandings of nationality.

This article explores the ethical challenges of conducting fieldwork in state institutions. It cr... more This article explores the ethical challenges of conducting fieldwork in state institutions. It critically engages with the chain of competing claims and multiple loyalties that confront social researchers, and addresses as the main question: how does working with people with whose goals one fundamentally disagrees shape the necessity of building collaborative alliances and trust? Drawing on the experience of a sensitive and precarious procedure -the administrative hearing of two fiancés suspected of a sham union -the article aims to give situated answers to general questions about the ethics of fieldwork relations. By challenging ideas about trust, neutrality and loyalty, it explores the tensions between building field alliances and private moral and political alignments. In the light of such dissonance, the article discusses the stakes of disclosure and the imposition of a covert role in forging alliances; the consequences of working in a state institution, where 'customers' are submitted to civil servants' discretionary power; and how this blurs, for the researcher, the opposition between adopting a neutral stance and taking sides. Finally, the article addresses the ethics of unethical alliances and how this tension challenges choices in portraying and betraying research participants.

Anthropologie et Sociétés, Jan 1, 2008