Indigeneity; ethnicity; morality; migration; globalisation; performance; exchange and gift; music; festival; audio-visual anthropology

Latin America; Andes; Ecuador; Spain

Jérémie Voirol graduated in Social Anthropology at the University of Neuchâtel (2004) and holds an MA from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris (2008) and a PhD from the University of Lausanne (2016). He has been a Visiting Research Fellow at the Department of Social Anthropology and at the Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology at the University of Manchester since 2017. Jérémie Voirol has conducted ethnographic research primarily in Ecuador, focusing on youth and music in urban contexts, as well as on festivities and music in Indigenous rural areas. His investigations shed new light on the circulation of people, ideas, objects, and sounds at different scales, as well as on playful and festive experiences. His theoretical interests span globalisation, identity and indigeneity construction, sociability, morality, exchange, performance, play, and pragmatism. From 2018 to 2023, Jérémie Voirol carried out a project within the ERC Starting Grant research ‘Returning to a Better Place: The (Re)assessment of the ‘Good Life’ in Times of Crisis’ (BETLIV, headed by Dr. Valerio Simoni) at the Geneva Graduate Institute. He addressed how ideals of the ‘good life’ were articulated, (re)assessed, and related to specific places and contexts as a result of experiences of crisis and migration. He examined the case study of the imaginaries and experiences of the return of Ecuadorian migrants who suffered the 2008 financial crisis in Spain. Currently, he is working on an ERC Proof of Concept project, based at the University of Lisbon and the University of Applied Sciences in Social Work in Freiburg (Switzerland). This project explores the aspirations of migrants, returnees, and asylum seekers in Ecuador through participatory methods to identify needs and tensions on the ground. The aim is to create space for dialogue, develop policy recommendations, and produce collaborative multimedia tools, involving grassroots associations, NGOs, state agencies, and International Organisations.

Jérémie Voirol is also participating in a research project about music listening workshops in the context of mental health care and their impact on well-being, belonging, and care relations (Haute École de Musique and Haute École de Santé Vaud, Lausanne).

Publications Jérémie Voirol (PDF, 76 KB)