Dr. Raúl Acosta García


E-Mail: AcostaGarcia (at) hrz.uni-frankfurt.de
Sprechzeiten: Nach Vereinbarung
Raum: IG 0.451

Forscher beim NoJoke Projekt 
https://nojoke.net/

Forschungsschwerpunkte
Politische Anthropologie, Humor, Umwelt, Stadtanthropologie // Latin Amerika, insbesondere Mexiko und Brasilien.


Kurzbiographie
Raúl Acosta promovierte am Institut für Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie (ISCA) der Universität Oxford. 2023 wurde ihm von der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München die Habilitation verliehen. Er lehrte und forschte an den Universitäten Oxford, ITESO (Guadalajara, Mexiko), Deusto (Bilbao, Spanien), Konstanz und München (LMU).

Ausgewählte Veröffentlichungen

Monographien

2020    Civil becomings: performative politics in the Amazon and the Mediterranean. NGOgraphies Book Series (editors M. Schuller and D. Lewis). Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press. 240 p. 
Samelbände

2023    Urban ethics as research agenda: outlooks and tensions on multidisciplinary debates. London: Routledge (mit Eveline Dürr, Moritz Ege, Ursula Prutsch, Clemens van Loyen und Gordon Winder).
2012 El diálogo como objeto de estudio: aproximaciones a un proceso cotidiano y a su calidad. (Der Dialog als Untersuchungsgegenstand: Annäherungen an einen alltäglichen Prozess und seine Qualität) 17 AutorInnen. Guadalajara: ITESO. 414 p.
2010Making sense of the global. Anthropological approaches to interconnections and processes. 11 AutorInnen. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 223 p. (mit Sadaf Rizvi und Ana Santos).

Peer-Reviewte Artikel

2024Techno-moral governance: from techniques of intervention to technological innovation in politics, policy and law. Introduction to Special Issue, with Insa Koch and Maja Hojer Bruun. Social Anthropology 32(4): 1-12. https://doi.org/10.3167/saas.2024.320401
2024“What is not counted, doesn't count": technomoral governance of Mexico City's urban mobility. Social Anthropology 32(4): 84-99. https://doi.org/10.3167/saas.2024.320406
2024Technomolecular flows in coastal cities: an anthropological approach to new materialist ethics of the anthropogenic microscale. Maritime Studies 23: 31. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40152-024-00377-x
2023Urban bioinfrastructures Introduction, with Lukas Ley, Roadsides 10: 1-8. https://doi.org/10.26034/roadsides-202301001
2023Ecosystems as filters: river restoration as urban experimentation. Roadsides 10: 33-41.  https://doi.org/10.26034/roadsides-202301005
2023Cycloactivism in Mexico City: breaking the rules between bodily experiences and technocratic politics. Ethnologia Fennica 50(1): 79-101. https://doi.org/10.23991/ef.v50i1.115168
2023Thinking with urban natures (Introduction & Urban microecologies). Global Environment 16: 177-221. https://doi.org/10.3197/ge.2023.160202
2023Participation overload? Disjuncture between aspirations, misuses and fatigue of a symbolic practice. 'Response in Debate on Default Participation.' Zeitschrift für Kulturwissenschaften 2023(1): 148-151

2022Re-imagining cities as ecosystems: environmental subject formation in Auckland and Mexico City (mit M. Aschenbrenner, E. Dürr, & G. Winder). Urban Research and Practice 15(3): 350-365. https://doi.org/10.1080/17535069.2020.1811886
2021Recasting urban imaginaries: politicized temporalities and the touristification of a notorious Mexico City barrio (mit E. Dürr & B. Vodopivec). International Journal of Tourism Cities 7(3): 783-798. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJTC-02-2020-0024
2018“Toma-la Ciudad": Intersubjective activism in Guadalajara's streets and City Museum. The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology. 24(1): 221-242. https://doi.org/10.1111/jlca.12386
2015Mexico through a superdiversity lens: already-existing diversity meets new immigration. Ethnic and Racial Studies 38(4): 636-649. (mit Esperanza Martínez Ortiz) https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2015.980289
2014Decisiones públicas sin diálogo público: análisis de los argumentos sobre el caso de la Vía Express vertidos en la prensa de Guadalajara, Comunicación y Sociedad 21(1): 133-159. (mit Juan Larrosa und Sofía Paláu)
2012Advocacy networks through a multidisciplinary lens: implications for research agendas. Voluntas. International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations 23(1): 156-181. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11266-011-9187-3
2021    Towards a technomolecular city: governance of urban metabolic biochemical flows. Rescaling the Metabolic Network Blog. CRASSH. Feb URL: http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/blog/post/towards-a-technomolecular-city-governance-of-urban-metabolic-biochemical-fl
2020Introduction: Urban struggles: governance, resistance, and solidarity. Feature FOCAAL Blog. Published: July 2. (mit F. Eiró, I. Koch und M. Koster). URL: http://www.focaalblog.com/2020/07/02/raul-acosta-flavio-eiro-insa-koch-and-martijn-koster-introduction-urban-struggles-governance-resistance-and-solidarity/
2020Navigating promises and good intentions: technomorality and scepticism among peripheral cycloactivists in Mexico City. Feature Focaal Blog. Published: July 7. http://www.focaalblog.com/2020/07/07/raul-acosta-navigating-promises-and-good-intentions-technomorality-and-scepticism-among-peripheral-cycloactivists-in-mexico-city/
Co-leiter der DGSKA-Arbeitsgruppe für Stadtanthropologie
https://www.stadtanthropologie.org/
Mitglied des Redaktionsausschusses von „Roadsides“
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