Tag: Urban Studies
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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?…