Between Emotion & Reason

At the 41st Congress of the German Sociological Association (DGS) “Polarisierte Welten” from 26.-30.09.2022 at Bielefeld University, I will organize the panel ‘Urban Moral Economies and the Sociology of Polarization in Global Perspective’ together with my two colleagues Boris Nieswand and Damián Martinez. We have…

The LoKoNet Travelling Conference in Dortmund was a very exciting encounter between various academics and practitioners who exchanged views on the interactions between urban planning and local conflicts. In addition to various interesting presentations and entertaining panel discussions, one highlight was the excursion to the…

The chapter, co-authored with Boris Nieswand and Damian Martinez, examines how different moral bodies of knowledge emerge around the topic of crime in Johannesburg, Murcia and Santiago de Chile, which guide local border and boundary-making practices. Despite local particularities, an astonishing degree of similar mechanisms…