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Urban anthropology has hardly dealt empirically with urbanism – that modern design discipline and governmental practice of conceiving, designing and intervening in urban environments. The last few years have seen an astonishing increase in urban anthropological studies that, inspired by the anthropology of infrastructures, actor-network theory and/or multispecies ethnography, not only focus on urbanism as a discipline of design or governance, but also on the urban actions and effects of non-human agents, such as building materials, pollutants, soil substrates, technical artefacts, plants, animals, geological driving forces, etc. In this seminar, we will address these studies and bring them together conceptually as contributions to an as-yet unformulated anthropology of urbanism. At the same time, the seminar will approach the city as a method, so as to explore the ways in which urban ethnographic work can participate of processes of city making. In this seminar, we will then collectively explore what a public anthropology of urbanism might entail by experimenting with visual and multimodal methods. The seminar will include lectures by two visi ting s cholars: Dr. Adolfo Estalella (CSIC Madrid) and PhD candidate Marcos Campos (CEBRAP, Sao Paulo), both experts in DIY and Souther urbanism. |
