Carole Ammann

Research area

Dr. Carole Ammann, PhD, is a postdoctoral researcher with an interdisciplinary background in social anthropology and African studies. Her specialisation is in the anthropology of gender with a specific focus on femininities, masculinities, and intersectionality. She has conducted extensive ethnographic fieldwork in Guinea, the Netherlands, and Switzerland.

Curricum Vitae

Carole Ammann has been a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Geography at the University of Bern, the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR) at the University of Amsterdam, and the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Lucerne. She received her PhD in social anthropology at the University of Basel, where she wrote an ethnographic dissertation entitled ‘Women, Agency, and the State in Guinea: Silent Politics’, that has been published as an open-access monographcall_made in 2020 by Routledge. Her work has been published in international journals such as Medical Anthropology, Gender, Place & Culture, Urban Forum, and International Development Policy.

Carole Ammann has joined the Chair of Spatial Development and Urban Policy SPUR (Prof. Dr. David Kaufmann) as a postdoctoral researcher where she is responsible for the project ‘The COVID-19 pandemic and its implications for urban essential workers’. The project will retrospectively examine the experiences, struggles, and policy demands of non-healthcare urban essential workers (such as public transportation drivers, day care personnel, urban cleaning workers, and shop clerks) during the pandemic in Swiss cities.

Selected published work

• Ammann, Carole. 2021. "Patchwork Life: Balancing Migration, Family, Fieldwork, and an Academic Career during a Global Pandemic." Curare - Journal of Medical Anthropologycall_made 44 (1-4):15-25.
• Ammann, Carole, Julia Mall, Marina Richter, and Susan Thieme. 2021. "Negotiating social differences and power geometries among healthcare professionals in a Swiss hospital." Gender, Place & Culturecall_made 28 (12):1715-1737.
• Ammann, Carole, Aïdas Sanogo, and Barbara Heer. 2022. "Secondary Cities in West Africa: Urbanity, Power, and Aspirations." Urban Forumcall_made 33:445–461.
• Ammann, Carole, and Sandra Staudacher. 2021. "Masculinities in Africa beyond Crisis: Complexity, Fluidity, and Intersectionality." Gender, Place & Culturecall_made 28 (6):759-768. doi: 10.1080/0966369X.2020.1846019.
• Förster, Till, and Carole Ammann. 2018. "African Cities and the Development Conundrum: Actors and Agency in the Urban Grey Zone." International Development Policycall_made  10:3-25. doi: 10.1163/9789004387942_002.
• Thieme, Susan, Marina Richter, and Carole Ammann. 2022. "Economic Rationalities and Notions of ‘Good Cure and Care’: Mixed Logics in a Swiss Hospital." Medical Anthropologycall_made 41 (4):460-473. doi: 10.1080/01459740.2022.2037082.