Tag: Berlin
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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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Visiting Fellow at CRC 1265/TU Berlin
From June to October, I’ll be a Visiting Fellow at the Collaborative Research Center 1265 “Re-Figuration of Spaces” at Technische Universität Berlin. I’ll join the center’s community to pursue my own research while participating in CRC events and exchanges. My main task will be to collaborate on translating the Digital Lecture Series “Space Talks” into zines—experimenting…
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Verbing the Urban
My latest paper, Verbing the Urban: Ethnographic Idealism and the Grammar of Becoming, currently under review, began with a simple but disorienting question: what if the city were not a collection of things, but a choreography of verbs? Drawing inspiration from Jorge Luis Borges’s Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius, the essay develops what I call ethnographic idealism—a speculative method that…
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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…
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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…