Anthropology of space
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The “spatial turn” starting in the 1990s questioned traditional dualisms between space and experience. The concrete places we live with others, it has been argued, are produced through our social experience. However, the argument often... more
Resumen: este ensayo visual presenta la colección de fotografías 'Matrioshkas (I): corrosión y cicatrices', tomadas por la autora en diferentes establecimientos colombianos que alguna vez fungieron como instituciones totales, en... more
This book provides a survey of the history of Western concepts of space, opens up interdisciplinary approaches to the phenomenon of space in fields ranging from physics and geography to philosophy and sociology, and explains how... more
This work is an ethnography of Rede CAMMPI, a network of neighborhood associations from Itapagipe Peninsula (Salvador, Brazil). Rede CAMMPI is approached to ethnographically discuss the interactions between a social movement and the... more
[In Russian] This paper is a study or spatial representation in a 13th century Old Russian collection of saint's lives. Contrary to the hypothesis of Dmitry Likhachev, who claimed that Old Russian literature contained only very general... more
Questo lavoro si propone di affrontare il corpus delle opere di Gilles Deleuze focalizzandosi su particolari concetti e categorie che rimandano allo spazio e alla spazialità. Deleuze non teorizza un concetto definitivo di spazio e anzi... more
Theoretical work about the acoustic epistemics of sound and the ethical ontologies they co-create in Sufi devotional chanting, based on a 7 month ethnography at the Naqshbandi Sufi community of Barcelona, Spain. Màster Oficial en... more
Poslednje decenije najveći i najvažniji posao grada Beograda u oblasti zaštite nepokretnih kulturnih dobara predstavljali su radovi na rekonstrukciji i revitalizaciji beogradske tvrđave. Nakon višegodišnjih značajnih ulaganja u ovaj... more
This article provides an ethnographic perspective on urban planning by presenting the creative practices of marginalized slum residents in Recife, Northeast Brazil, who are affected by planners’ decisions. It argues that such a... more
According to William Robertson Smith’s and Paul Florensky’s thesis that the ritual as a cult foundation is the base of every religion and culture, this paper explores the interdisciplinary structure, dynamics and understanding of the... more
Based on qualitative research among female Dutch-Moroccan teenagers in two underprivileged neighborhoods in the city of Utrecht, the Netherlands, this article focuses on the spatial practices of young Muslim women in public space.... more
This essay analyzes the emotionally charged rhetoric surrounding plans for the reconstruction of the Morandi Bridge in Genoa, Italy.
Broken Soviet lifts are emblematic of Georgia's transition from socialism to market economics.