The doc.Mobility grant was awarded to Marie de Lutz for her dissertation research entitled “Liberation in a Cup: Scales of Worldmaking in Everyday Intimacies”. Marie’s dissertation focusses on articulations of the body, territory, and global markets through the emergence of a small and seemingly trivial object: the menstrual cup. Exploring the emergence of the menstrual cup in Colombia, Marie asks what the logics inherent in the material-discursive practices surrounding the cup tell us of the dynamics between capital and bodies in the contemporary.
Her study has a dual facet: on one hand, it explores the ways in which the menstrual cup in its everyday encounters articulates wider politico-economic dynamics. A professional photographer and videographer, on the other, Marie’s approach is grounded in an audiovisual ethnographic approach, drawing on sensory information, and using a co-productive filmmaking process as a means of revealing embodied forms of knowledge.
During the doc.Mobility fellowship, Marie will be based at the Center for Interdisciplinary Methodologies (CIM), the University of Warwick, on the invitation of Professor Maria Puig de la Bellacasa. The CIM is dedicated to fostering innovative and experimental forms of knowledge production through a sustained focus on methodology. Marie’s focus during the doc.Mobility will be on analyzing her fieldwork data and methods, drafting journal articles examining the cup’s emergence in Colombia, and the methods employed during fieldwork, and editing a first rough cut of the ethnographic film co-produced with research participants.
