Dr. Winnie Lem, B.A., M.A., Ph.D. (Toronto)Professor
Department of International Development Studies & Gender and Social Justice program
Trent University
1600 West Bank Drive
Peterborough, Ontario K9J 7B8
Canada
CC G11 office
(705) 748-1011 ext. 7785 • phone
Research interests
Migration, transnationalism, citizenship; regionalism, nationalism, gender, entrepreneurs, diasporas, ethnicity, urbanization, work, household economies; agrarian change; rural politics; racism; culture and political economy; Europe; Asia.
Selected Publications
Books & Edited Volumes
2018 Migration Temporalities and capitalism: Entangled Mobilities across Global Spaces. London, New York: Palgrave (co-editor Pauline Gardiner Barber
2014 The Dialectics of Migration Part 2 Special Issue Dialectical Anthropology, Vol 38: 1 March (co-editor Pauline Gardiner Barber)
2013 The Dialectics of Migration Part 1. Special Issue Dialectical Anthropology, Vol 37: 3 (Co-editor Pauline Gardiner Barber)
2012 Confronting Capital: Critique and Engagement in Anthropology (co-editors Belinda Leach & Pauline Gardiner Barber) New York: Routledge
2012, Migration in the 21st Century: Political Economy and Ethnography (co-editor Pauline Gardiner Barber) New York: Routledge
2010 Class, Contention, and a World in Motion (co-editor Pauline Gardiner Barber) London, New York: Berghahn Publishers
2008 Migrants, Mobility and Mobilization. Special Issue Focaal: European Journal of Anthropology (co-editor Pauline Gardiner Barber) Vol. 51
2004 Commodities, Capitalism and Globalization: Special Issue of Anthropologica, The Journal of the Canadian Anthropology Society / La revue de la Société Canadienne d’Anthropologie Vol. 46 (2) (co-editor Pauline Barber)
2002 Culture Economy, Power: Anthropology as Critique - Anthropology as Praxis (co-editor Belinda Leach) Albany: State University of New York Press. 311pp
1999 Cultivating Dissent: Work, Identity and Praxis in Rural Languedoc, Albany. State University of New York Press. 268pp
Journal articles
2020 Notes on militant populism in contemporary France: contextualizing the gilets jaunes. Dialect Anthropology 44, 397–413
2014 The Dialectics of Migration, Pauline Gardiner Barber (co-author) in The Dialectics of Migration Part 2 (editors: Winnie Lem & Pauline Gardiner Barber) Special Issue Dialectical Anthropology, Vol 38:1 March pp. 13-15
2013 Citizenship, Migration and Formations of Class in Urban France in The Dialectics of Migration Part 1 (editors: Winnie Lem & Pauline Gardiner Barber) Special Issue Dialectical Anthropology, Volume 37, Issue 3 Page 443-461
2009 “Mobilization and Disengagement: Chinese Migrant Entrepreneurs in Urban France” in Ethnic & Racial Studies –special issue Migrants and Minorities’ Mobilization: Exclusion and Engagements in Europe Però, Davide & John Solomos (eds.) Vol. 33 No. 1. Pp. 1-16
2008 Migrants, Mobilization and Citizenship in Contemporary France in Focaal: European Journal of Anthropology, Special Issue, Migrants, Mobility and Mobilization, (co-editor Pauline Gardiner Barber) Vol. 51 pp. 57-72
2008 Migrants and Mobilization: Introduction (co-author Pauline Gardiner Barber) in Focaal: European Journal of Anthropology, Special Section, Migrants, Mobility and Mobilization, (Lem, Winnie & Pauline Gardiner Barber) Vol. 51 pp. 30-12
2001 Familisme, despotisme et discipline dans le Languedoc rural: le contrôle des femmes et la gestion des hommes dans l’exploitation familiale” in Anthropologie et Sociétés Vol. 25. No 1. Pp 81-98
1995 Identity and History: Historical Consciousness in Rural Languedoc in Journal of Historical Sociology Vol. 8 No.2 June. pp. 198-220
1991 Classe et région: l'identité sociale chez les petits viticulteurs du Languedoc" in Ethnologie française, XXI, no 1. "Anthropologues Américaines: regards sur la France.” pp.13-27
Book Chapters
2020 Les restaurateurs chinois, des citoyens modèles? La transmission familiale des valeurs entrepreneuriales en contexte néolibéral in Ya-Han Chuang et Anne-Christine Trémon (rédactrices)La globalisation chinoise en (Ile de) France Mobilités, ancrages spatiaux et enjeux urbains « SHS », Terra HN éditions, Marseille pp. 1-36
2020 The Temporalities of Migration: Work and Reproduction in Affective Economies of Late Capitalism in Don Nonini & Ida Susser (eds), The Politics of Scale New York: Routledge
2018 The Dialectics of Uneven Spatial-Temporal Development: Migrants and Reproduction in Late Capitalism in Lem, Winnie & Pauline Gardiner Barber (eds) Migration Temporalities and capitalism: Entangled Mobilities across Global Spaces. London, New York: Palgrave. pp 160-184
2016, Radical assertions and anthropological practice: a reflection on re-framing the study of migration, in Gledhill, John (ed.) World anthropologies in Practice, London: Bloomsbury
2016 Canadian Feminist Anthropology: Imagining the Terrain in Solitudes of the Workplace: Women and Universities Elvi Whittaker (ed.) Montreal, McGill Queen’s University Press
2013 Regimes of Regulation, Gender and the Divisions of Labour in Languedoc Viticulture, in Wine and Culture: Vineyard to Glass. Editors: Rachel E. Black, and Robert C. Ulin, London: Berg. Pp. 221-240
2012. “Panoptics of Political Economy: Anthropology and Migration” in Migration in the 21st Century: Political Economy and Ethnography in Barber, Pauline Gardiner & Winnie Lem (editors) New York: Routledge pp. 17-37
2012. “Confronting Anthropology: The Critical Enquiry of Capitalism” Confronting Capital: Anthropology, Critique, Praxis Barber, Pauline Gardiner, Belinda Leach, & Winnie Lem (eds) New York: Routledge pp. 1-16 Co-authored with Pauline, Pauline Gardiner, & Belinda Leach.
2010 "Migrant Entrepreneurs and the Making of Neo-Liberal Citizens" in Class and Contention in a World in Motion in Barber, Pauline Gardiner & Winnie Lem (editors) Berghahn Publishers, New York
2009 “Mobilization and Disengagement: Chinese Migrant Entrepreneurs in Urban France” in Ethnic & Racial Studies –special issue Migrants and Minorities’ Mobilization: Exclusion and Engagements in Europe Però, Davide & John Solomos (eds.) Vol. 33 No. 1. Pp. 1-16
2009 “Daughters, Duty and Deference in the Franco-Chinese Restaurant” in Beriss, David and David Sutton (eds.) Restaurants: The Anthropology of Where We Eat. London: Berg
2008 "Migrants, Mobilization and Citizenship in Contemporary France" in Focaal: European Journal of Anthropology, Special Issue, Migrants, Mobility and Mobilization, (edited with Pauline Gardiner Barber)
Links
Link to the Department of International Development Studies, Trent University.
Link to the Women's Studies Program, Trent University.
Courses
Human inequality in global perspective (IDST 1000Y) International Development Studies course, Trent University, Oshawa
The cinema of development and underdevelopment (IDST 3130Y) International Development Studies course, Trent University
Global migration (IDST4120H FA) International Development Studies course, Trent University
Global metropolis (IDST 4130H WI) International Development Studies course, Trent University