Raul Acosta

The publication of Roadsides Collection no. 010 on Urban Bioinfrastructure is just around the corner. Take a look at the upcoming articles: roadsides.net/collection-no-…

Raúl Acosta and Lukas Ley advance the concept of urban bioinfrastructures in relation to human and non-human city dwellers. They position the ambivalent politics of these bioinfrastructures vis-à-vis ‘nature-based’ solutions: roadsides.net/acosta-ley-010/

Raúl Acosta asks what happens when infrastructure is designed as a living thing. He describes Mexican environmental project Ecoducto, which restores a degraded urban river while performing beneficial filtering effects: roadsides.net/acosta-010/

… Mary Lawhorn, Chakad Ojani, Andrea Aragonés, Catalina Codruta Dobre, and Giuseppe Faldi. Thanks everyone!

I’m proud of our new collection in Roadisdes about Urban Bioinfrastructures roadsides.net/ejournal/, which Lukas Ley (@granularlukas) and myself edited with a star lineup: Sarah Vaughn, Matthew Gandy, Maan Barua, Columba González-Duarte, Sonja Dümpelmann, Mwangi Mwaura…

With Racial baggage, Sylvia Zamora makes a valuable contribution to understand the dynamic ideas and practices regarding race across the border. @stanfordpress @tandfhss Read review by @raulaco below: doi.org/10.1080/014198…

Global Environment 16.2, a @CarsonCenter Special Issue on Irritations and Unforeseen Consequences of the Urban, is now online! Introduction, Photo essay and ICEHO pages are free to read, Fehlings&Conrad article is Open Access ingentaconnect.com/content/whp/ge… #envhist @whitehorsepress

Part of the special issue “Irritations and unforeseen consequences of the urban: debating natures, politics and timescapes” edited by E. Dürr, R. Keller and D. Dumas @danidoomz @whitehorsepress whpress.co.uk/GE.html

I’m thrilled that our piece “Thinking with urban natures” is finally out on Global Environment with a stellar lineup: Maan Barua, @maanbarua Matthew Gandy @natura_urb Sasha Gora Kara Schlichting @KaraSchlichting Joseph Adeniran Adedeji

I’m very happy to have presented a paper at the Nature-Society Relations conference at the Humboldt University in Berlin gender.hu-berlin.de/en/events/natu…

Nein, nichts ist gut! Stellungnahme vom Institut für Ethnologie der @goetheuni zu den Ereignissen auf der von Susanne Schröter organisierten Tagung zum Thema Migration uni-frankfurt.de/136463135/2023… @whittacat @SozKultAnthro

Call for papers for Roadsides Collection no. 010 on Urban Bioinfrastructures, edited by Raúl Acosta @raulaco and Lukas Ley @Granularlukas roadsides.net/call-for-paper…

Mi capítulo: "La bicicleta como receta para la resiliencia urbana: activismo, solidaridad y urbanismo de base en la Ciudad de México"

Es un honor haber publicado un capítulo en el libro "Viralizar la esperanza: Alternativas, resistencias y autocuidado colectivo frente al COVID-19 y a la crisis socioambiental", editado por Tommaso Gravante, Jorge Regalado y Alice Poma. Acceso abierto: ceiich.unam.mx/0/50NovLib.php…

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The CMS Public #Lecture Series program for the Fall/Winter semester 2021-22 is finally here! The theme is #Denkstadt & our line up features Sonja Dümpelmann, Simone Müller, @KaraSchlichting, Tim Edensor, Jan Hein Furnée, Raul Acosta & Matthew Gandy @natura_urb! Zoom info below

@RachWakefield1 @ABalayannis The book looks amazing! My library already ordered it and I can’t wait to read it.

Finally got my hands on this baby!(baby no2 still cooking). I decided to write this when I realised work from diverse disciplines was coalescing into a story abt the rise of new pathogen ecologies in homes & cities, yet the disciplines remained disconnected. Some highlights inc:

All welcome!

@ABalayannis I’d love to join!

It's always a bit awkward to pre-record a presentation... but I look forward to participating in our #4S2021 panel "Toxic entanglements: acting on slow, invisible, and emerging realities", convened by Prof. Anita Hardon