Explore and Experience the Urban Field
Bronwyn Frey is Visiting Research Fellow of the Urban Ethnography Lab at Georg-Simmel Center for Metropolitan Studies at Humboldt-University of Berlin from June 2019 – June 2020 conducting ethnography on app-based food delivery in Berlin. App-based food delivery in Berlin How can anthropological understandings of labour better account for the expansion of data-driven capitalism? The…
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RC21 Conference is fast approaching, and the Urban Ethnography Lab is very looking forward to meet you on Saturday, Sept 21, from 1-2.30 pm in Room Willow (India Habitat Centre, Lodi Road, New Delhi) for our Panel on “Doing Urban Ethnography.” We are happy to provide some detailed insights on our panel. Convener: Carolin Genz…
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Research Assistant (65 % part-time, TVL-13, third-party funding until 31.12.2021)– ENGLISH VERSION BELOW – Stellenausschreibung an der Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Fakultät – Geographisches Institut | Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter (w/m/d) mit 65 v. H. d. regelm. Arbeitszeit – E 13 TV-L HU (Drittmittelfinanzierung befristet bis 31.12.2021) Aufgabengebiet: Wiss. Dienstleistungen in der Forschung im Teilprojekt “Geographische Imaginationen: Sicherheit und Unsicherheit…
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Aylin Yildirim Tschoepe and Carolin Genz organize a workshop (Walkshop and Roundtable) as part of the alumni conference Beyond Borders by ZEIT-Stiftung Ebelin und Gerd Bucerius next Saturday, May 25th, 2019 from 10-22 Uhr @ silent green Kulturquartier in Berlin-Wedding. In this workshop, we will go beyond the proverbial “box” that limits our imagination and…
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This semester we are very looking forward to teaching a university course on “Gender and the City” at the Geography Department at Humboldt-University of Berlin. The course includes basic academic texts on gender and the city, which are dealing with the complexity of spatial practices, appropriation, visibility and security in public-urban space. From an ethnographical…
Read MoreIn an effort to decentralize our academic knowledge and discussion on urban spaces, the Urban Ethnography Group at UofT’s Ethnography Lab has launched its Urban Ethnography from the Global South reading group and speaker series, dedicated to the study and analysis of ethnographic research produced on the Global South and by academics from the Global South.…
Read MoreThe Mansueto Institute for Urban Innovation and the Department of Sociology at the University of Chicago invites applications for a postdoctoral scholar specializing in urban ethnography. They are particularly interested in individuals committed to building a deep scientific understanding of cities and processes of urbanization around the world, and researchers developing innovative methods and practices…
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