Personal Info

Academic Background
PhD in Anthropology (SOAS), MSc and BSc in Anthropology (University of Montreal)

Research interests
Mozambique, youth, secrecy and mobile phone use, sexuality, petty crime, space and mobility, economic anthropology.

Julie Soleil Archambault specialises in African anthropology with a particular interest in the recent uptake of information and communication technologies. She received her PhD in anthropology from the School of Oriental and African Studies (2010). Based on an ethnography of mobile phone use in the city of Inhambane, Southern Mozambique, her doctoral research examined everyday secrecy practices in relation to the redefinition of gender and intergenerational relations underway in the post-socialist postwar economy. Julie has also conducted research on alcohol consumption and the expansion of religious movements in Southern Africa. This reflects her broader interest in lifestyle aspirations and everyday experiences of young people living in contexts of uncertainty. Her current research focuses on the workings of the petty crime economy in Southern Mozambique. 

Teaching interests
Dr Archambault is involved in the teaching of the MSc in African Studies for which she convenes a core course on research methodology. She also teaches and supervises graduate students in the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology.

Publications
Forthcoming. ‘ “Travelling while sitting down”: mobile phones, mobility and the communication landscape in Inhambane, Mozambique’, Africa.

2012. 'Mobile phones and the “commercialisation” of relationships: expressions of masculinity in Southern Mozambique' in K. Brison and S. Dewey (eds) Super Girls, Gangstas, Freeters, and Xenomaniacs: Gender and Modernity in Global Youth Cultures. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press. 

2011. 'Breaking up “because of the phone” and the transformative potential of information in Southern Mozambique', New Media & Society, 13: 444-456. http://nms.sagepub.com/content/13/3/444.abstract

2010. 'La fièvre des téléphones portables: un chapitre de la "success story" mozambicaine?' Politique africaine, 117: 83-105. http://www.politique-africaine.com/numeros/117_SOM.HTM#

2009. 'Being cool or being good: researching mobile phones in Southern Mozambique'. Anthropology Matters, 11: 1-9.
http://www.anthropologymatters.com/index.php?journal=anth_matters&page=article&op=viewArticle&path%5B%5D=161&path%5B%5D=287