Goethe-Universit盲t 鈥� Acosta Garcia, Raul

E-Mail: AcostaGarcia (at) hrz.uni-frankfurt.de
Office Hours: By appointment
Room: IG 0.451

Researcher in the NoJoke Project

Research Focus
Political anthropology, humour, Environment, Urban Anthropology // Latin America, especially Mexico and Brazil

Short Biography
Ra煤l Acosta obtained his doctoral degree from the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology (ISCA) at the University of Oxford. He was awarded his Habilitation from the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit盲t M眉nchen in 2023. He has taught and carried out research at the universities of Oxford, ITESO (Guadalajara, Mexico), Deusto (Bilbao, Spain), Konstanz and Munich (LMU).

Selected Publications

2023 Urban ethics as research agenda: outlooks and tensions on multidisciplinary debates. London: Routledge (mit Eveline D眉rr, Moritz Ege, Ursula Prutsch, Clemens van Loyen und Gordon Winder).
2012 El di谩logo como objeto de estudio: aproximaciones a un proceso cotidiano y a su calidad. (Der Dialog als Untersuchungsgegenstand: Ann盲herungen an einen allt盲glichen Prozess und seine Qualit盲t) 17 AutorInnen. Guadalajara: ITESO. 414 p.
2010 Making 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-Reviewed Articles

2024 Techno-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.
2024 鈥淲hat is not counted, doesn't count": technomoral governance of Mexico City's urban mobility. Social Anthropology 32(4): 84-99.
2024 Technomolecular flows in coastal cities: an anthropological approach to new materialist ethics of the anthropogenic microscale. Maritime Studies 23: 31.
2023 Urban bioinfrastructures Introduction, with Lukas Ley, Roadsides 10: 1-8.
2023 Ecosystems as filters: river restoration as urban experimentation. Roadsides 10: 33-41.
2023 Cycloactivism in Mexico City: breaking the rules between bodily experiences and technocratic politics. Ethnologia Fennica 50(1): 79-101.
2023 Thinking with urban natures (Introduction & Urban microecologies). Global Environment 16: 177-221.
2023 Participation overload? Disjuncture between aspirations, misuses and fatigue of a symbolic practice. 'Response in Debate on Default Participation.' Zeitschrift f眉r Kulturwissenschaften 2023(1): 148-151

2022 Re-imagining cities as ecosystems: environmental subject formation in Auckland and Mexico City (mit M. Aschenbrenner, E. D眉rr, & G. Winder). Urban Research and Practice 15(3): 350-365.
2021 Recasting urban imaginaries: politicized temporalities and the touristification of a notorious Mexico City barrio (mit E. D眉rr & B. Vodopivec). International Journal of Tourism Cities 7(3): 783-798.
2018 鈥淭oma-la Ciudad": Intersubjective activism in Guadalajara's streets and City Museum. The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology. 24(1): 221-242.
2015 Mexico through a superdiversity lens: already-existing diversity meets new immigration. Ethnic and Racial Studies 38(4): 636-649. (mit Esperanza Mart铆nez Ortiz)
2014 Decisiones p煤blicas sin di谩logo p煤blico: an谩lisis de los argumentos sobre el caso de la V铆a Express vertidos en la prensa de Guadalajara, Comunicaci贸n y Sociedad 21(1): 133-159. (mit Juan Larrosa und Sof铆a Pal谩u)
2012 Advocacy networks through a multidisciplinary lens: implications for research agendas. Voluntas. International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations 23(1): 156-181.

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.
2009	NGO and social movement networking in the World Social Forum. An anthropological approach. Saarbruecken: VDM Publishing. 100 p.

2023	Urban ethics as research agenda: outlooks and tensions on multidisciplinary debates. London: Routledge (mit Eveline D眉rr, Moritz Ege, Ursula Prutsch, Clemens van Loyen und Gordon Winder).
2012	El di谩logo como objeto de estudio: aproximaciones a un proceso cotidiano y a su calidad. (Der Dialog als Untersuchungsgegenstand: Ann盲herungen an einen allt盲glichen Prozess und seine Qualit盲t) 17 AutorInnen. Guadalajara: ITESO. 414 p.
2010	Making 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).

2024	Techno-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.
2024	鈥淲hat is not counted, doesn't count": technomoral governance of Mexico City's urban mobility. Social Anthropology 32(4): 84-99.
2024	Technomolecular flows in coastal cities: an anthropological approach to new materialist ethics of the anthropogenic microscale. Maritime Studies 23: 31.
2023	Urban bioinfrastructures Introduction, with Lukas Ley, Roadsides 10: 1-8.
2023	Ecosystems as filters: river restoration as urban experimentation. Roadsides 10: 33-41.
2023	Cycloactivism in Mexico City: breaking the rules between bodily experiences and technocratic politics. Ethnologia Fennica 50(1): 79-101.
2023	Thinking with urban natures (Introduction & Urban microecologies). Global Environment 16: 177-221.
2023	Participation overload? Disjuncture between aspirations, misuses and fatigue of a symbolic practice. 'Response in Debate on Default Participation.' Zeitschrift f眉r Kulturwissenschaften 2023(1): 148-151
2022	Re-imagining cities as ecosystems: environmental subject formation in Auckland and Mexico City (mit M. Aschenbrenner, E. D眉rr, & G. Winder). Urban Research and Practice 15(3): 350-365.
2021	Recasting urban imaginaries: politicized temporalities and the touristification of a notorious Mexico City barrio (mit E. D眉rr & B. Vodopivec). International Journal of Tourism Cities 7(3): 783-798.
2018	鈥淭oma-la Ciudad": Intersubjective activism in Guadalajara's streets and City Museum. The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology. 24(1): 221-242.
2015	Mexico through a superdiversity lens: already-existing diversity meets new immigration. Ethnic and Racial Studies 38(4): 636-649. (mit Esperanza Mart铆nez Ortiz)
2014	Decisiones p煤blicas sin di谩logo p煤blico: an谩lisis de los argumentos sobre el caso de la V铆a Express vertidos en la prensa de Guadalajara, Comunicaci贸n y Sociedad 21(1): 133-159. (mit Juan Larrosa und Sof铆a Pal谩u)
2012	Advocacy networks through a multidisciplinary lens: implications for research agendas. Voluntas. International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations 23(1): 156-181.

51猎奇

Acosta Garcia, Raul

Selected Publications