Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - Institut für Europäische Ethnologie

Short Description: 

Elisabeth Luggauer has a background in the continuum of Cultural Anthropology and European Ethnology. Her research interests primarily emerge from the intersections between (concepts of) ‘the urban’ and ‘the environmental’.

At IfEE, Elisabeth is a member of the Stadtlabor for Multimodal Anthropology and the Laboratory: Anthropology of Environment | Human Relation.

Elisabeth conducts ethnographic research that explores various dimensions of more than human urban everyday lives and the possibilities of doing ethnography beyond the human. In her PhD, she  followed the question how humans and stray dogs in Podgorica, Montenegro, co-create urban spaces and meanings of places, and shape the city as a multispecies meshwork.

Affiliated to the ERC-project “Urban Vibrations: How Physical Waves Come to Matter in Contemporary Urbanism” (WAVEMATTERS), Elisabeth pays attention to air conditioning as not just a technical solution but complex and often precarious more than human socio-material practices that aim at assembling microclimates, bodies, buildings, and materials to render thermal contexts in the cities of Las Vegas and Podgorica habitable.

In her most recent project, “The Green and the City,” Elisabeth researches how ‘green’ - approached as entanglements of species and organisms -  becomes enacted and acts in shaping ideas of future urban cohabitations in the context of accelerating global warming.

Research Interests: 

urban & environmental anthropology // multispecies, collaborative, experimental and multimodal ethnography // heat & climate crisis 

Office: 

Anton Wilhelm Amo-Str. (formerly M*Str.) 41

10117 Berlin 

room 404