Marie-Eve Carrier Moisan

PhD Candidate

MA Social and Cultural Anthropology, Concordia University (2005)
BA Anthropology, Concordia University (2003)

Supervisor: Dr. Alexia Bloch

Email: marie.eve[-a-]ubc.ca

Research interests:
Gender, Bodies and Sexualities; Transnationalism and Globalization;  Sex Tourism and Traffic in Women; Gringo Studies; Development, NGOs, and the Rescue Industry; Gender, Affect and Mobility; Critical Anthropological Theory; Ethnographic Method; Feminist Anthropology; Engaged Anthropology; Ethnography of Latin America/Brazil.

Research projects:
Since 2003, I have based my work in the Northeast of Brazil, exploring the intersections of gender, migration and globalization. Currently, I am completing my PhD dissertation, Ambiguous Intimacies: Of Affect, Power and Mobility in Sex Tourism, Northeast Brazil. It is an ethnography of global sex tourism in Ponta Negra, a tourist area in the coastal city of Natal, Brazil where I investigated the ambiguous relationships of love and money between (white) western male tourists and (black/mixed-race) Brazilian women. I theoretically situate these relationships within contemporary political economic structures, historical processes of inequality in Brazil, gendered patterns of affect and mobility, as well as sites of global desire. A major theme in her work also concerns the politics of the ‘rescue industry’ currently articulated by Brazilian non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and government campaigns against sex tourism in Natal.

I am also a co-founding member of the Research Group on Gender and Sexuality in Latin America at UBC, which receives financial support from the Liu Institute for Global Issues. Through a series of reading discussion, film screenings, book launches, workshops, and talks, our research group seeks to contribute to ongoing discussions about Latin American gender relations, sexual politics, and feminist theories.  For more information, see: blogs.ubc.ca/genderandsexuality/

Publications:
2012 (accepted) Saving Women or (Re) inscribing Exclusion? New Protagonists in the Public Spaces of Sex Tourism In Feminism's Publics: Why the Public Matters. Eds. Sally Cole and Lynne Phillips, with Marie-Eve Carrier-Moisan and Erica Lagalisse. London: Pluto Press

2011 (forthcoming) ‘Gringo but not macho’: (Paid) Sex and the Conquest In The Gringo Studies Reader ed. Samuel Veissière. Duke University Press.