Libri
2024 (con Giuseppe Acconcia, Giulia Aiello, Caterina Roggero) Mondi Arabi. Una guida essenziale, Collana Saggi Bompiani Ean 9788830110328.
2024 Quest for love in Central Morocco: Young Women and the Dynamics of intimate lives, Syracuse, New York, Syracuse University Press (260 pagg.) https://press.syr.edu/supressbooks/6170/quest-for-love-in-central-morocco/ ISBN copertina rigida 9780815638308, ISBN brossura 9780815638292, ISBN e-book 9780815657033
2008 (con A. Cancellieri e P. Gazzola) Volti di un’Italia multietnica. Spazi abitativi, stili di abbigliamento e giovani generazioni di origine immigrata, Torino: L'Harmattan Italia (pp. 164) EAN: 9788878921153 ISBN: 8878921157
Curatele
2020 (guest editor) Racial legacies: historical and contemporary dynamics in North Africa, West Africa and the Middle East, Special Issue of Antropologia 7(1). https://www.ledijournals.com/ojs/index.php/antropologia/issue/view/114
2018 (con A. Bellagamba, M. Gardini, eds) The Shadows of Slavery: Refractions of the Past, Challenges of the Present. OpenDemocracy E-Book ISBN: 978-1-7325178-0-6. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-7ETObmmI0MVbdCt2AXtMuOKQQVhbtOo/view [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-7ETObmmI0MVbdCt2AXtMuOKQQVhbtOo/view%20%0d2018]
2018 [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-7ETObmmI0MVbdCt2AXtMuOKQQVhbtOo/view%20%0d2018] (guest edited with Alice Elliot) Special section Anthropologies of Destiny: action, temporality and freedom, HAU: Journal of Anthropological Theory 8(1-2): 292-346.
2016 Guest Editor with E. Costa of the Special Issue on “Digital Intimacies: Exploring digital media and intimate lives in the Middle East” in Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication, Vol. 9 (2). E-ISSN: 1873-9865 -Print ISSN: 1873-9857
Articoli in riviste con peer-review
2024 «Poveracce e poveracciai». Storie e tecnologie di pesca delle vongole nel Mare Adriatico, RAC - Rivista di Antropologia Contemporanea: il Mulino, Bologna, Fascicolo 2/2024, luglio-dicembre, pp: 317-337, DOI: 10.48272/116382
2024 “Anti-black racism” as a slavery’s afterlife? Sub-Saharan African migrants in the marginalized neighbourhoods of Rabat, Anuac Vol 13 No 2: 1-23 URL : http://journals.openedition.org/anuac/897
2020 ‘Destiny is written by God’: Islamic predestination, responsibility, and transcendence in Central Morocco. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 26(3):515–532. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.13312
2020 Introduction: Slavery and the Racialization of Humanity: Coordinates for a Comparative Analysis, Racial legacies: historical and contemporary dynamics in North Africa, West Africa and the Middle East, Special Issue di Antropologia 7, (1): 1-31. DOI: https://doi.org/10.14672/ada202016227-32
2020 “Dans la peau d’un noir”: Senegalese students and young professionals in Rabat, Morocco Antropologia 7(1), 165-188. DOI: https://doi.org/10.14672/ada20201629165-188
2019 Sogni d‘amore: narrazioni oniriche e giovani donne musulmane a Milano, in Città in controluce 33- 34, Vita quotidiana. Tra pubblico e privato, pp. 161-172. (ISSN 2388 4053) Rivista scientifica delle aree 08 e 14 ANVUR
2019 “Descending into the Hell”: Tazmamart, Civic Activism, and the Politics of Memory in Contemporary Morocco, Memory Studies, Vol. 12 (3), https://doi.org/10.1177/1750698019836191
2018 Texting romance: mobile phones, intimacy, and gendered moralities in Central Morocco, Contemporary Levant 3(1): 66-78 (DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/20581831.2018.1449933 ).
2018 (with. A. Elliot) For an anthropology of destiny, HAU: Journal of Anthropological Theory 8(1-2): 292-299. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/698223
2016 “Anti-black racism”: debating racial prejudices and the legacies of slavery in Morocco, SWAB Working Paper Series of the ERC project Shadows of Slavery in West Africa and Beyond. A Historical Anthropology, Grant 313737, Ledijournal.
ISBN 978-88-6705-574-6 DOI 10.14672/67055746
2016 ‘Scomparsi (mukhtafyin)’: Violenza e attesa nelle sparizioni forzate nel Marocco degli ‘anni di piombo’, Antropologia Vol 3 (2): 81-100. DOI: https://doi.org/10.14672/ada2016753%25p
2016 Introduction (with E. Costa) “Digital Intimacies: Exploring digital media and intimate lives in the Middle East” in Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication, Vol. 9 (2): 137–145 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/18739865-00902002
2016 “Men are not scared! (rijjala ma tay-khafush)”: Luck, Destiny and the gendered vocabularies of clandestine migration in Central Morocco, Archivio Antropologico Mediterraneo 18 (1). 25-36. DOI: https://doi.org/10.7432/AAM180103
2015 The Impasse of Modernity: personal agency, divine destiny and the unpredictability of intimate relationships in Morocco, in The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute NS, 21, 892-910. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.12293
2015 Memorie della schiavitù, ‘razza’ e razzismo nel Marocco contemporaneo, Mondo Contemporaneo, Vol. 2, 89-112. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3280/MON2015-002005
2014 “Searching for my voice: Intimacy, longing and fragmentation in the self-narrative of a young Muslim woman in Italy”, in Special Issue on Life-worlds and religious commitment: ethnographic perspectives on subjectivity and Islam, guest editors P. Abenante and D. Cantini, La Ricerca Folklorica, Vol. 69, 55-65. https://www.jstor.org/stable/43897026
2014 Rewriting the World: Gendered violence, the political imagination and memoirs from the Years of Lead in Morocco, Special Issue on Violence, Justice and the Work of Memory, guest editors K. Neumann and D. Anderson Journal of International Conflict and Violence Vol. 8 (1): 45-60. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4119/ijcv-3044
2011 “Bodies, Boundaries and Desires. Multiple subject positions and micro-politics of modernity among young Muslim women in Milan”, Journal of Modern Italian Studies, Special issue “Children of migrants in Italy”, 16(4): 502-513. https://doi.org/10.1080/1354571X.2011.593761
2010 “Immaginando la ‘casa’. Luoghi di dislocamento e di desiderio negli scritti di tre giovani donne arabo-musulmane”, Scritture Migranti. Rivista di studi interculturali, n. 3/2009: pp. 67-92. ISSN 2037-5742 – Rivista CLUEB
Capitoli di libri
2024 “Vivere l’Islam nel mondo globale” (70 pp.) in Giuseppe Acconcia, Giulia Aiello, Laura Menin, Caterina Roggero, Mondi Arabi. Una guida essenziale, Collana Saggi Bompiani Ean 9788830110328.
2018 (con A. Bellagamba, M. Gardini, eds) Introduction. IN: The Shadows of Slavery: Refractions of the Past, Challenges of the Present. OpenDemocracy pp. 10-19 E-Book ISBN: 978-1-7325178-0-6. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-7ETObmmI0MVbdCt2AXtMuOKQQVhbtOo/view.
2017 ‘A Life of Waiting: Political violence, personal memory, and enforced disappearance in Morocco’ in S. Hegasy, S. Nikro, The Social Life of Memory: Violence, Trauma, and Testimony in Lebanon and Morocco, Palgrave. DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66622-8_2
2017 Suspended Lives: Undocumented Migrants’ Everyday Worlds and the Making of ‘Illegality’ Between Morocco and Italy. In: Gaibazzi, P., Dünnwald, S., Bellagamba, A. (eds) EurAfrican Borders and Migration Management. Palgrave Series in African Borderlands Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-94972-4_12
2013 “Immaginari e conflitti d'amore in Marocco” in Mapelli. B. (ed), Infiniti Amori, Ediesse Edizioni: 129-140. ISBN: 88-230-1818-1
2012 “Feminist Desires, Multi-culturalist Dilemmas: Migrant women’s self-organizing in Milan” in Glenda Bonifacio (ed.) Feminism and Migration: Cross-cultural Engagements, Springer, US: 243-262. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-2831-8_13
2012 “Promesse e tradimenti del sogno d’amore. Soggettività di genere e trasformazioni sociali in Marocco” in Mattalucci, C. ed., Etnografie di genere. Immaginari, relazioni e mutamenti sociali, Edizioni Altravista, Lungavilla (PV): 63-79. Isbn: 9788895458502
2009 “Appropriating Modernity, Contesting Gender. Young Muslim Women in Milan (Italy)” in S. Wenger et al. (eds.), Gender in Trans-it. Transnational and Transcultural Perspectives, Zurig: Chronos Verlag: 171-182. ISBN 978-3-0340-0978-2
2008 “Che genere di modernità? Giovani donne musulmane a Milano”: In (A. Cancellieri, P. Gazzola, L. Menin) Volti di un'Italia multietnica. Spazi abitativi, stili di abbigliamento e giovani generazioni di origine immigrata, Torino: L'Harmattan Italia, pp. 118-163. EAN: 9788878921153 ISBN: 8878921157
Recensioni
2022 recensione Francesco Vacchiano, 2021 Antropologia della dignità. Aspirazioni, moralità e ricerca del benessere nel Marocco contemporaneo. Verona: Ombre Corte, Antropologia V. 9 N. 3 (2022), 213-215. DOI: https://doi.org/10.14672/ada20223pp209-212
2021 recensione Fabio Vicini, Reading Islam: Life and. Politics of Brotherhood in Modern. Turkey, Brill, Leiden e Boston, 2020, Antropologia Pubblica, v. 7, n. 1, p. 257 - 262, 2021. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1473/anpub.v7i1.224 .
Blog accademici
2018 ‘Being black in North Africa and the Middle East’, editor of a Special week’s section, Open Democracy (12 February 2018). https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/beyond-trafficking-and-slavery/being-black-in-north-africa-and-middle-east/
“In the skin of a black”: Senegalese students and young professionals in Rabat, Open Democracy (13 February 2018). https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/beyond-trafficking-and-slavery/in-skin-of-black-senegalese-students-and-young-professionals-in-rabat/
2018 (con A. Bellagamba, M. Gardini, eds) The Shadows of Slavery: Refractions of the Past, Challenges of the Present, OpenDemocracy (15 agosto 2018).
2016 “The racialization of marginality: sub-Saharan migrants stuck in Morocco”, academic blog Open Democracy, 22 July 2016, https://www.opendemocracy.net/author/laura-menin
