Liviu Chelcea
My current project, based in New York City, analyzes how fears of tap water pipes and the widespread usage of pitcher filters generate new subjectivies, forms of agency and forms of care. Another water related project, also based in New York City, uses environmental repair of Newtown Creek as entry point into issues of future ruination, production of nature and interspecies hospitality. I graduated the anthropology doctoral program of University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (2004) with a dissertation on houses, documents, property relations and kinship in the context of housing restitution in Romania. In the past, I wrote on postsocialism, housing, gentrification, time and consumption.
Supervisors: Katherine Verdery, CUNY
Supervisors: Katherine Verdery, CUNY
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Keywords: water, infrastructures, technopolitics, filters, bottled water, filtration, pipes, New York City
one network at a time. These two volumes suggest (Moss’s explicitly, Björkman’s implicitly) that there is much to learn from analyzing urban infrastructures together rather than in isolation. I will briefly compare and contrast them, and close by suggesting that both outline a space of theoretical exploration and offer a generative entry point into urban life, located in analyzing multiple city infrastructures simultaneously.
interrogation of the ruins of the long historical cycle created by Engels’ ideas and of the ways in which restitution has redrawn the class geography of large cities. Michele Lancione’s film is a critical
intervention, bringing to the fore the drama of such long-term tenant families and their agency in resisting the urbanization of anti-communism.
Keywords: water, infrastructures, technopolitics, filters, bottled water, filtration, pipes, New York City
one network at a time. These two volumes suggest (Moss’s explicitly, Björkman’s implicitly) that there is much to learn from analyzing urban infrastructures together rather than in isolation. I will briefly compare and contrast them, and close by suggesting that both outline a space of theoretical exploration and offer a generative entry point into urban life, located in analyzing multiple city infrastructures simultaneously.
interrogation of the ruins of the long historical cycle created by Engels’ ideas and of the ways in which restitution has redrawn the class geography of large cities. Michele Lancione’s film is a critical
intervention, bringing to the fore the drama of such long-term tenant families and their agency in resisting the urbanization of anti-communism.
Contents:
Chapter 1. Dezindustrialization and changes of urban landscape
Chapter 2. Postindustrial nostalgia, industrial heritage and refunctionalization
Chapter 3. The geography, history and the memory of Bucharest's industrialization
Chapter 4. Current usage of industrial spaces and the new urban landscape
Chapter 5. The social life of industrial ruins: The cultural reinsertion of industrial spaces