Tag: Manuscripts
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Des-plegar
How does an ethnography unfold? What happens when we refuse the linearity of the academic paper and let our materials bend, crease, or overlap? In my new contribution to Cultural Anthropology’s Fieldsights series, I explore the gesture of folding and unfolding as both a conceptual and material operation of ethnographic practice. Written within my project Tarde and the reflections I…
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Forthcoming Chapter: Toxic Afterlives
I am writing this theoretical chapter for the edited volume Uneven Toxic Worlds: Anthropological Engagements with Toxicity and Environmental Justice (edited by Camelia Dewan, Raffael Ippolito, and Peter C. Little). The chapter, titled “Toxic Afterlives: Specimenography and the Uneven Residues of Industrial Farming,” proposes specimenography as a conceptual and methodological framework for anthropology to engage with the slow persistence of contamination. It is…
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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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Fragmented Floras
I’m pleased to share that my paper Fragmented Floras: Ontologies of Medicinal Plant Fragments in Bogotá’s Markets is currently under review. The text grows from my larger research project, Fragmented Ecologies, which investigates how fragments—of plants, substances, and stories—circulate as forms of knowledge, care, and classification in Bogotá’s urban markets. Drawing on fieldwork at Plaza Samper Mendoza—known as…
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Home: A User’s Manual
I will contribute a short text titled Home: A User’s Manual to the forthcoming edited volume Take One Object, edited by omás Errázuriz and Francisco Martínez (forthcoming, Bloomsbury), which gathers forty-five essays by anthropologists, designers, and artists reflecting on the lives of domestic things. When I was invited to illustrate the book, I decided not to simply represent the…
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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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New Paper for a Special Issue on “Decentring Urban Experiments”
I’m thrilled to announce that I will be writing a paper for Architecture and Culture’s upcoming special issue, “Decentring Urban Experiments.” My contribution, titled “My neighborhood is an amusement park, and I am [not] okay with that”: Co-laborative Explorations of an Outdoor Escalator System in Medellín, Colombia, explores the complex entanglements of architecture, governance, violence, and everyday life…
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Turning a Traffic Light into an Epistemological Device
My new paper has just been published in Social Epistemology. It is titled “Turning a Traffic Light into an Epistemological Device: An ANT Proposal to Disassemble and Stabilize Urban Life into Regions of Usefulness.” The piece continues my exploration of the city as both field and laboratory, proposing inventive ways to think and write ethnographically about infrastructures.…
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Reviewing Urban Ethics
My colleague and doctoral supervisor, Ignacio Farías, and I recently published a review of Urban Ethics: Conflicts Over the Good and Proper Life in Cities (edited by Moritz Ege and Johannes Moser) in Zeitschrift für Volkskunde. The book sets out an ambitious research agenda for cultural urban studies, asking a deceptively simple question: How should one live in the city?…