Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - Institut für Europäische Ethnologie

Publications

Browse my publications by theme — click a cluster below to jump to it:

 

1. Urban/Spatial Theory · 2. Critical Ecologies
3. Knowledge Politics · 4. Studio Anthropology 
5. Social/Cultural Theory · 6. Tourism Studies

 

 

1. Urban/Spatial Theory

a. Books & edited volumes

 

   

 

  • Atlas of Spatial Figures (co-edited with Silke Steets & Nikolaus Gansterer), Jovis, 2025 (open access)
  • Kultursoziologische Stadtforschung. Grundlagen, Analysen, Perspektiven (co-authored with M. Löw, S. Steets & T. Schmidt-Lux), Campus, 2023 (open access)
  • Urban Cosmopolitics: Agencements, Assemblies, Atmospheres (co-edited with Anders Blok), Routledge, 2016
  • Urban Assemblages. How Actor-Network Theory Changes Urban Studies (co-edited with Thomas Bender), Routledge, 2009

b. Articles & chapters

  • „How actor-network theory diffracts critical urban studies“, in ...
  • „Spatial figures in the Anthropocene“, in … (with Silke Steets)
  • "Assemblage urbanism: Ecologising urban sociology“, in ... (with Anders Blok)
  • “Zur Ökologisierung der Raumtheorie: eine Einladung”, in: Figuring Out Spaces, transcript: 331–344, 2025
  • “Cities: Stories of urban STS” (with Tomás Criado), in Encyclopedia of Science & Technology Studies, Edward Elgar: 533–543, 2024
  • “Actor-Network Theory as a Theory of Space” (with Julio Paulus), in Handbook of Qualitative and Visual Methods in Spatial Research, Routledge: 33–44, 2024
  • “Die Räume der Akteur-Netzwerk-Theorie” (with Julio Paulus), in Methoden der qualitativen Raumforschung, 2021
  • “Für eine Anthropologie des Urbanismus. Ethnographisch Städte bauen”, Zeitschrift für Volkskunde 116(2): 171–192, 2020
  • “Urban Cosmopolitics” (with Anders Blok), in Handbook of Urban Geography, Edward Elgar: 47–62, 2019
  • “Assemblages without systems: From the problem of fit to the problem of composition”, Dialogues in Human Geography 7(2): 186–191, 2017
  • “STS in the City” (with Anders Blok), in Handbook of Science and Technology Studies, MIT Press, 2017
  • “Assemblages”, in Urban Theory: New Critical Perspectives, Routledge: 41–50, 2016
  • “Humans as Vectors and Intensities” (with Stephan Hoehne), in Deleuze and the City, EUP: 17–32, 2016
  • “Introducing urban cosmopolitics” (with Anders Blok), in Urban Cosmopolitics, Routledge: 1–22, 2016
  • “Whose urban cosmos, which urban cosmopolitics?” (with Anders Blok), in Urban Cosmopolitics, Routledge: 227–244, 2016
  • “Deconstructing ‘Metropolis’: Critical Reflections on a European Concept” (with Susanne Stemmler), in Thick Space. Approaches to Metropolitanism, transcript: 49–66, 2012
  • “The politics of urban assemblages”, CITY 15(3–4): 365–374, 2011
  • “Ensamblajes urbanos: La TAR y la exploración de la ciudad”, Athenea Digital 20: 15–40, 2011
  • “Introduction: Decentering the object of urban studies”, in Urban Assemblages, Routledge: 1–24, 2009

c. Other

  • “Ciudades múltiples, ensamblajes asamblearios y ética de la incertidumbre: Una conversación con Ignacio Farías”, Cuadernos de Teoría Social 7(13): 37–63, 2021
  • "Über städtische Gefüge und Kosmopolitik. Studierende im Gespräch mit Ignacio Farías”, Berliner Blätter, 2016
  • Interviews with Nigel Thrift, Stephen Graham & Rob Shields, in Urban Assemblages, Routledge, 2009

 

 

2. Critical Ecologies

a. Books & edited volumes

  • A Compass for Wavy Fields (co-authored with Brett Mommersteeg, Jorge Martín & Nona Schulte-Römer), K-Verlag, forthcoming
  • Urban Critical Zones (co-edited with Casper Bruun Jensen), Berghahn, forthcoming
  • Noisy Knowledges in the Anthropocene: Environmental Noise and its Infrastructures (co-edited with Brett Mommersteeg), special issue, Science, Technology & Human Values, forthcoming
  • Elemental Urbanism: Engaging the terrestrial in city making (co-edited with Laura Kemmer), Berliner Blätter, Vol. 87, 202

b. Articles & chapters

  • "European Noise: Environmental Governance, Ontological Indeterminacy, and Urban De/Compositions“, Science, Technology & Human Values, under revision
  • "Puddles: Figuring Out the Critical Zone“, in Urban Critical Zones (co-edited with Casper Bruun Jensen), Berghahn, forthcoming (with Mirja Busch)
  • „Heat Spacing: How Thermal Flows Refigure Cities and Bodies“, in Urban Critical Zones (co-edited with Casper Bruun Jensen), Berghahn, forthcoming (with Margherita Tess)
  • “Touch Microclimate” (with Indrawan Prabaharyaka & Margherita Tess), Holotipus, Vol. 6, 2025
  • “Conflicts along the ‘Fresh Air Corridors’ of Stuttgart. The Figurational Politics of Climate Adaptation” (with Indrawan Prabaharyaka), in Spatial Conflicts and Conflictual Spaces, Routledge: 352–372, 2025
  • “Elemental Urbanism: Engaging the terrestrial in city making” (with Laura Kemmer), Berliner Blätter 87: 1–8, 2024
  • “Gardening in Public Spaces: From Comfort to Care” (with Kristiane Fehrs), Berliner Blätter 87: 129–140, 2024
  • “Hitze und Gesundheit in städtischen Räumen” (with Elisabeth Luggauer), in Jahrbuch StadtRegion 2023/2024, Springer VS: 197–216, 2024
  • “How would animals and architects co-design if we built the right contract?” (with Tomás Criado & Felix Remter), in Design For More-Than-Human Futures, Routledge, 2023
  • “Don’t Fix the Puddle. A Puddle Archive as Ethnographic Account of Sidewalk Assemblages” (with Mirja Busch), in Repair, Breakages, Breakthroughs, Berghahn: 115–120, 2019
  • “Master Plans as Cosmograms: Articulating Oceanic Forces and Urban Forms After the 2010 Earthquake and Tsunami in Chile”, in Relational Planning: Tracing Artefacts, Agency and Practices: 179–202, 2018
  • “Städtisches Leben von und mit Schadstoffen. Materielle Intimität als Einschränkung urbaner Dingpolitik”, Berliner Blätter 69: 70–83, 2015
  • “Building a park, immunising life: Environmental management and radical asymmetry” (with Manuel Tironi), Geoforum 66: 167–175, 2015
  • “Misrecognizing tsunamis: ontological politics and cosmopolitical challenges in early warning systems”, Sociological Review 62(S1): 61–87, 2014 (Spanish version 2019)
  • “Planes maestros como cosmogramas: La articulación de fuerzas oceánicas y formas urbanas tras el tsunami de 2010 en Chile”, Pléyade 14: 119–142, 2014
  • “Improvising a market, making a model. Social housing policy in Chile… post-disaster reconstruction after the 2010 earthquake”, Economy and Society, 2014
  • “Die Improvisation einer Politik”, in Formationen des Politischen. Anthropologie politischer Felder, transcript: 153 ff., 2014

c. Multimodal works

  • WASTE WHAT? — open-source cooperative game on reuse. Trash Games project, 2022

 

3. Knowledge Politics

a. Books & edited volumes

 

  • Science wars in the wild: Mobilising science for and against smart digital futures (co-edited with Nona Schulte-Römer), special issue, Science, Technology and Society, forthcoming
  • Planning Miseducation (co-edited with Jörg Stollmann et al.), dpr-barcelona, forthcoming
  • Zaudern ums Gemeinwohl. Produktive Missverständnisse in der kooperativen Stadtentwicklung (co-authored with F. Marlow & R. Wall), adocs, 2024 (open access)
  • Re-Learning Design: Pedagogical Experiments with STS in Design Studio Courses (co-edited with Tomás S. Criado), Diseña, 2018
  • Technical Democracy as a Challenge for Urban Studies (co-edited with Anders Blok), CITY, 2016

b. Articles & chapters

  • „The Zauderbude. Scenography as method of controversy exploration“, in (with Felix Marlow and Rebecca Wall)
  • „Strategic Misunderstandings. Knowledge politics in urban experiments for the common good“, in (with Felix Marlow and Rebecca Wall)
  • “Smart City New Deals: Unpacking the recursive entanglements of infrastructures and administrations” (with Julia Valeska Schröder & Claudia Mendes), in Handbook of Infrastructures and Cities, Edward Elgar: 77–91, 2024
  • “A Smart Equivocation: Co-laboration and Subsidiarity in a Smart City Consortium” (with Claudia Mendes), in Inside Smart Cities: Place, Politics and Urban Innovation, Routledge: 200–214, 2018
  • “Re-learning Design: Pedagogical Experiments with STS in Design Studio Courses” (with Tomás S. Criado), Diseña 12: 14–29, 2018 (German version 2019)
  • “Co-laborations, Entrapments, Intraventions: Pedagogical Approaches to Technical Democracy in Architectural Design” (with Tomás S. Criado), Diseña 12: 228–255, 2018
  • “Architectures of Politics” (with Gonzalo Correa), Diseña 12: 80–95, 2018
  • “An Idiotic Catalyst. Accelerating the Slowing Down of Thinking and Action”, Cultural Anthropology 32(1): 34–40, 2017
  • “A different state of exception: Governing urban reconstruction in post 27-F Chile” (with Patricio Flores), Urban Studies 54(5): 1108–1125, 2017
  • “Ordinary smart cities: How calculated users, professional citizens, technology companies and city administrations engage in a more-than-digital politics” (with Sarah Widmer), Technoscienza 8(2): 43–60, 2017
  • “Introduction: Technical Democracy as a Challenge for Urban Studies” (with Anders Blok), CITY 20(4): 539–548, 2016
  • “Devising Hybrid Forums: Technical Democracy in a Dangerous World”, CITY 20(4): 549–562, 2016

c. Policy Reports

 

 

4. Studio Anthropology

a. Books & edited volumes

 

  • Multimodal Appreciation. A Kit for Evaluating Multimodal Works in Anthropology and Beyond (with Jonas Albrecht, Tomás Criado, Andrew Gilbert & Christoph J. Maier), IfEE, 2025

  • Studio Studies. Operations, Topologies & Displacements (co-edited with Alex Wilkie), Routledge / CRESC Book Series, 2015

b. Articles & chapters

  • „Studio Anthropology: Experiments with Ethnography as a Practice of the Artificial“. Society of Cultural Anthropology, Multimodal Studio series, 13 May 2025: https://www.culanth.org/fieldsights/studio-anthropology-experiments-with-ethnography-as-a-practice-of-the-artificial 

  • “Multimodales Arbeiten in der Public Anthropology – A Map of Interventions und kein Territorium. Ein Manifest” (with Jonas Albrecht, Tomás Criado, Andrew Gilbert, Christoph J. Maier & Nasima Selim), in Public Anthropology, 2025

  • “The expression of a camera system: radicalizing pragmatism with Antoine Hennion”, in Enquêter sur ce qui arrive. Mélanges offerts à Antoine Hennion, Presses de Mines: 93–107, 2024

  • “How to game ethnography” (with Tomás Criado), in An Ethnographic Inventory: Field Devices for Anthropological Inquiries, Routledge, 2023
  • “Multimodal Values: The Challenge of Institutionalizing and Evaluating More-than-textual Ethnography” (with Tomás Criado & Julia Schroeder), Entanglements 5(1–2): 94–107, 2022 (German version 2022)
  • “Sourcing Newness. Ways of Inducing Indeterminacy” (with Michael Hutter), Journal of Cultural Economy 10(5): 434–449, 2017
  • “Studio Studies: Notes for a research Programme” (with Alex Wilkie), in Studio Studies, Routledge, 2015
  • “Studio operations: Manipulation, storage and hunting in desert landscapes”, in Studio Studies, Routledge, 2015
  • “Epistemische Dissonanz. Zur Vervielfältigung von Entwurfsalternativen in der Architektur”, in Wissenschaft Entwerfen?, Fink: 76–107, 2013 (English: Moments of Valuation, OUP: 271–289, 2015)
  • “Heteronomie und Notwendigkeit. Wie Architekt/innen Wettbewerbsbeiträge entwickeln”, in Kulturen des Wettbewerbs, Waxmann: 173–193, 2013 (Spanish 2017; English 2022)

c. Other works

  • House of Gossip — open-source game on the housing and real-estate market. Stadtlabor for Multimodal Anthropology, HU Berlin, 2021
  • Interviews with Pelle Ehn (“On the Possibility of Socialist-democratic Design Things”), Matt Ratto (“The Critical Experience of Making”) and Alex Wilkie (“For a Speculative Aesthetics of Description”), Diseña 12, 2018 
  • “For a sociology of maquettes. Interview with Antoine Hennion”, in Studio Studies, Routledge, 2015

 

5. Social/Cultural Theory

a. Books & edited volumes

  • The Routledge Companion to Actor-Network Theory (co-edited with Anders Blok & Celia Roberts), Routledge, 2019
  • Cosmopolíticas (co-edited with I. Rodríguez & D. Rojas), Pléyade 14, 2014
  • Comunicaciones, Semánticas y Redes. Usos y Desviaciones de la Sociología de Niklas Luhmann (co-edited with José Ossandón), Universidad Iberoamericana, 2011
  • Observando Sistemas. Nuevas apropiaciones y usos de la teoría de Niklas Luhmann (co-edited with José Ossandón), RIL Editores, 2006

b. Articles & chapters

  • “Actor-network theory as a companion” (with Anders Blok & Celia Roberts), in The Routledge Companion to ANT, 2019
  • “Culture and ANT” (with Sophie Mützel), International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2nd ed., 2015
  • “Virtual attractors, actual assemblages”, European Journal of Social Theory 17(1): 24–41, 2014
  • “La diferenciación de los colectivos. Ensamblajes, comunicaciones y simetría total”, in Teoría del actor-red, Amentia: 301–330, 2012
  • “Kulturen als soziomaterielle Welten”, in Durch Luhmanns Brille, VS Verlag: 173–204, 2012 (Spanish: “Cultura: la performación de mundos sociomateriales”, Convergencia 21(64): 65–91, 2014)
  • “Luhmann para qué? / Why Luhmann?” (with José Ossandón), in Comunicaciones, Semánticas y Redes, 2011
  • “Adieu à Bourdieu? Asimetrías, límites y paradojas en la noción de habitus”, Convergencia 17(54): 11–34, 2010
  • “Intimidad cultural en espacios de consumo. El Mall Plaza Vespucio y la imposibilidad de una cultura pública”, in SCL, ARQ Editores: 16–29, 2009
  • “La persistencia de lo nacional. La reunificación alemana y la distinción Ossi/Wessi”, Re-Lea 24: 107–150, 2007
  • “Recontextualizando Luhmann. Lineamientos para una lectura contemporánea” (with José Ossandón), in Observando Sistemas, RIL: 17–54, 2006
  • “Cultura: la distinción de unidades societales”, in Observando Sistemas, RIL: 323–364, 2006
  • “Elementos para el estudio de la cultura”, Revista MAD 6: 1–36, 2002

c. Other

  • EASST Review editorials: “How to inherit from Barcelona” (35:4) and “A collaborative turn in STS?” (35:1), 2016; “STS and Human Drama” (34:3) and “For Members Only?” (34:1), 2015
  • “Hacia una nueva ontología de lo social. Manuel DeLanda en entrevista”, Persona y Sociedad 22(1): 75–85, 2008

 

6. Tourism Studies (until 2012)

a. Books and edited volumes

Touring Berlin. Tourist Communication, Virtual Destination and the Multiple City. PhD Dissertation. HU Berlin, 2008

b. Articles & chapters

  • "Destinations as virtual objects of tourist communication”, in Actor-Network Theory and Tourism, Routledge: 128–145, 2012
  • “Tourist maps as diagrams of destination space”, Space and Culture 14(3): 398–414, 2011
  • “Sightseeing buses: cruising, timing and the montage of attractions”, Mobilities 5(3): 387–407, 2010
  • “Spatial arrangements and mediation in sightseeing bus-tours”, in The Tourist City Berlin, Verlagshaus Braun: 201–219, 2010
  • “The reality of urban tourism: Framed activity and virtual ontology”, in Urban Assemblages, Routledge: 209–228, 2009
  • “Destination Berlin. Orderings of city-identity in contemporary tourist guidebooks”, Zeithistorische Forschungen 4(3): 422–433, 2007
  • “A la búsqueda del ‘urbanismo europeo’: Un reporte desde Berlín”, EURE 31(94): 119–127, 2006
  • “Zukunft zum Greifen nah. Strukturelle Bedingungen, Semantiken und Verortung des Berliner Stadtmarketing”, Berliner Blätter 37(3): 22–31, 2005

c. Other works

  • “Buses turísticos en Santiago: identidad y límites de la representación social” (with José Ossandón & Mirja Busch), Revista 180, 23: 52–55, 2009
  • "Gebt mir einen Doppeldecker und ich werde die Stadt von dessen Dach aus verwandeln", Die Stütze, Stadtmagazin n°10: 5–8, 2005