Category: Infrastructuring Multispecies Encounters
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Multispecies Mapping: Exploring Practices of Fragmentation, Scale, and Care
Under review for Zoophilologica: Polish Journal of Animal Studies (Special Issue on “Multi-species Methods and Methodologies”). Paper’s authors: Tomás J. Usón, Santiago Orrego, Barbara Pietrzak, Jia Hui Lee, Nieves Usón, Sandra Jasper, and Clemens Winkler. This forthcoming paper brings together geographers, anthropologists, ecologists, and artists to explore multispecies mapping as both a method and a mode of thinking-with…
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Multispecies Mapping
On March 12, 2025, Margarita Macera, Tomás Usón, and I will co-host a panel entitled “Multispecies Mapping: Diffracting the Critical through More-than-human Cartographies.” The session is part of STS Hub 2025 — “Difracting the Critical,” taking place in Berlin. We convene scholars and practitioners who treat mapping not as a neutral representation tool but as an inventive, ethical, and collaborative practice—one that…
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Partial Encounters
As the year comes to an end, I’m delighted to share that my new paper, Partial Encounters: Exploring More-Than-Human Entanglements in Berlin’s Animal Enclosures, has just been published in the Journal of Contemporary Ethnography (SAGE, 2024). The article emerges from my DFG-funded project “Infrastructuring Multispecies Encounters”, in which I explored the everyday relations that take shape around petting zoos,…
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Infrastructuring Multispecies Encounters
Starting February 2023 – Georg Simmel Center for Urban Studies, Humboldt University of Berlin Funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) In February 2023, I will begin a postdoctoral project titled Infrastructuring Multispecies Encounters, an ethnographic exploration of Berlin’s petting zoos as sites where humans and animals co-produce urban space. The project asks what happens when cities…