Julie RausenbergerUniversity of Antwerp | UA · Department of Communication Studies
Julie Rausenberger
Master of Science in Social & Cultural Anthropology
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Introduction
I am a PhD student at the University of Antwerp (Belgium) conducting research on visual culture and digital media in Cuba.
I obtained my MA degree in Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Leuven (Belgium) in 2017. I also studied a semester abroad at Florida International University in Miami during Fall 2016. I obtained my BA in Tourism and Leisure Management in 2014.
I submitted my dissertation on volunteer tourism and jineterismo in Cuba.
Additional affiliations
August 2016 - present
Position
- Master's Student
Description
- International exchange graduate student for one semester
September 2015 - September 2017
Education
September 2011 - September 2014
Publications
Publications (18)
Santurismo (Santeria + Turismo) refers to the popular formula of Afro-Cuban religions and tourism and initially served the Cuban government in the 1960s to promote Santeria as a folkloric product of Cuban identity through staged performances in touristic surroundings. Gradually, it became a coping strategy by Cuban people to deal with political and...
Prostitution is a well-known universal social phenomenon, yet it is not evenly integrated into society as conservative stigma classify this sector as deviant. This causes sex work to exist further in the margins of contemporary societies. Latin American transgender migrants selling sex furthermore live with a threefold stigma: they work in prostitu...
Prostitution is a well-known universal social phenomenon, from anywhere and at all times, that attracts many migrants. Yet sex work is clearly not evenly integrated into society. Moreover, worldwide sex workers are on the move seeking new sources of income in the sex industry. Generally, sexual migration involves the temporary emigration of a perso...
Due to the unique character of Cuba's socialist governmental structure and policies, as well as the economic embargo of the United States on Cuba in combination with the economic hardship Cubans faced (and still face) after the collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s, many Cubans rely on remittances, gifts and imported goods from abroad to...
Gap years are a popular rite of passage amongst school-leavers who opt to take a year out from education in order to travel around the world. Volunteer organizations became one of the fastest growing sectors of the tourism industry, offering students the opportunity to see the world, grow up, and think about future prospects and reflect upon the qu...
Winner of the 2nd Prize of the Student Competition. Presentation of the paper "Importing Modernity: Foreign Fashion and Identity-Making in Urban Cuba" for the theme concurrent session / student panel on the theme: "Cuba: Navigating in a Turbulent World"
Due to the unique character of Cuba's socialist governmental structure and policies, as well as...
This paper focuses on critical geopolitics by challenging classical geopolitics and engaging critically with feminist geopolitics. Moreover, it sheds light on social solidarity as an aspect of critical geopolitics that is often mentioned, but was until now insufficiently examined by scholars within this academic field. I argue that solidarity does,...
This poster has been presented and won a prize at the PhD Day of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Antwerp on February 5, 2018. The poster will also be presented at the TICYUrb'18 international conference in Lisbon, Portugal from June 18th to June 22nd, 2018 at ISCTE-IUL. The TICYUrb (Third International Conference of Young Urban...
The revolutionary ideology behind Cuban solidarity is a remarkable and courageous project that lies at the heart of the construction of a Cuban identity by the nation state. It is also visible in Cuba’s foreign policies and internationalism. Nevertheless, reality has not always corresponded to these envisioned ideals. Political and economic tension...
The economic, political, and social forces of globalization impact communities in varying ways. Religions, faiths, and spiritualities serve as interpretive frameworks for these forces and their impacts on communities. Religious frameworks and spiritual practices mediate between the conservation of faith-based principles and the demands of contempor...
The paper titled “PLEASE MIND THE GAP! (In-) Consistency in Gap Year Volunteer Tourism - From Rite of Passage to (Unwanted) Cosmopolitanism” was accepted for a stand-up presentation at the 7th Advances in Hospitality and Tourism Marketing and Management (AHTMM) conference, which was held in Famagusta, Cyprus between July 10 -15, 2017. The full pape...
This is a poster presentation about a research project I conducted amongst Latin American transgender people who work in Antwerp’s sex industry. It aims to voice their personal life histories in order to gain more understanding of who they are, how they identify themselves, which journey brought them to Antwerp, why they do sex work and how art is...
Poster Presentation about my Thesis Start Report / Research Proposal presented at the Graduate Colloquium at the Faculty of Sciences of KU Leuven, Belgium. This Colloquium aims to bring together master students in Anthropology (from KUL and ULB), CADES students, PhD students and professors to share experience and insight in ethnographic research, a...
The current political structure of the Ecuadorian State and its recent Constitutional Reformation paved a way for greater equality and inclusion of LGBT rights. This post-neoliberal Latin American country is shaping the sexual identities and the queered citizen statuses of LGBT people in a remarkable way as Ecuador governs its country in a paradoxi...
The colloquial term Jineterismo refers to the 'riding of tourists' which can include any activity or behavior associated with tourist hustling, including transactional sex. In this paper, I explore jineterismo from the perspective of queer theory by examining the sexual politics in touristic Cuba through the lens of time, space, class, sexuality, g...
This (unpublished) paper focuses on the relationships between Mauritians and foreigners and questions the role of marriage scam and romance within informal encounters between tourists and Mauritians. Often tourists are blamed for their predilection of colored people, stimulated by exotic imaginaries, whereas locals are known to seduce and mislead t...
Projects
Project (1)
Questioning the deterministic and Western-centric assumptions that underline the idea of "the digital" as a monolith capable of engendering similar reactions across the globe, the present project aims to offer an ethnographically driven, in-depth analysis of the spread of digital media from a transnational perspective. Focussing on two urban locations representing different types of fringes of the global spread of digital media (the cities of Havana, Cuba and New Delhi, India), this study will approach the topic from the particular vantage point of visual culture. The attention to digital visualities, i.e. to instances of production and consumption of images in a digital landscape, constitutes a concrete opportunity for studying what we could call paraphrasing Manovich (2009) practices of everyday digital life. The attention to concrete mundane engagements with digital image technologies will allow us to generate new insights into the multiple faces of the digital turn. Regarding the sites for the research both Cuba and India host a very rich visual culture, while offering also examples of different trajectories of digital development. While India constitutes a territory where digital technologies are scarce resources but at the same time also symbols for a rich and powerful future, Cuba is just presently witnessing to the public arrival of digital connectivity; it is facing its own digital turn. This is a unique moment in history for studying these contexts.
Researcher(s)
Promotor: Favero Paolo
Research team(s)
Visual and Digital Cultures Research Center (ViDi)
