Tag: Animal Enclosures

  • Watching Animals do Nothing

    Watching Animals do Nothing

    On March 12, 2025, I’ll present a talk titled “Watching Animals ‘Do Nothing’: Mapping Captivity’s Stillness in Berlin” as part of the panel I am co-hosting—“Multispecies Mapping: Diffracting the Critical through More-than-human Cartographies”—at STS-hub.de 2025: Diffracting the Critical in Berlin. This contribution is part of my recently finished research project “Infrastructuring Multispecies encounters: an ethnography of more-than-human urban assemblages in…

  • Infrastructuring Multispecies Encounters

    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…