Tag: More-than-human Research
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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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The Market After the Market
This field note is part of Fragmented Ecologies. When the night ends at Samper Mendoza, the market doesn’t really close—it exhales. Around dawn, the aisles empty, the lights dim, and the ground begins to show what the commerce of care leaves behind. I arrive just as the sweepers begin their rounds. Plastic bags rustle. Brooms drag.…
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The Politics of Invasiveness
“The Politics of Invasiveness: A Research Route to Track the Controversy of Hippopotamuses Living in Colombia’s Wild” is a talk I will present on September 4 at the panel “Towards Pluriversal Urbanisms: Reimagining Postcolonial and More-than-human Futures” during the 2025 meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S). This is an orphan research—a stand-alone, unfunded…
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Towards Pluriversal Urbanisms
Next week, I will co-host a panel with Christian Ritter at the 2025 meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S). The panel, called “Towards Pluriversal Urbanisms: Reimagining Postcolonial and More-than-human Futures,” brings together STS scholars from diverse backgrounds and geographies to collaboratively explore the urban beyond the human and beyond the colonial.…
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The Long Goodbye at Samper Mendoza
This field note is part of Fragmented Ecologies. Friday, July 18, 2025. 7:32 am On Mondays and Thursdays after 10 pm, I walk into Plaza Samper Mendoza with a small notebook and a phone camera. It’s a popular nocturnal herb market in Bogotá, Colombia—rows of dried leaves, bundled roots, and bottled syrups. My project here is simple…
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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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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…