Alberto Corsín Jiménez
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Alberto Corsín Jiménez
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Anthropology of traps, technology, and captivating counterurbanisms. Co-editor, Cultural Anthropology, 2022-2026. Instituto de Lengua, Literatura y Antropología, CSIC

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Hace un mes se publicó Historia Ilustrada del Confinamiento. El libro se puede descargar gratuitamente desde @editorialcsic.bsky.social He pensado hace un hilo diario con las historias que componen la trama del libro. Hoy empiezo con los mapas que desencadenaron nuestra investigación 🧵

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I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

Stay free
Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
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A politics worthy of the term
Breaking News: Spain issued a decree allowing hundreds of thousands of undocumented migrants to apply for legal residency. The measure is bucking a trend, as many Western governments have cracked down on illegal immigration.
Spain Offers Undocumented Migrants a Legal Way to Stay
The measure, unexpectedly approved, comes as other countries are cracking down on immigration.
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A propos police "training" we published this extraordinary essay by Jessica Katzenstein in Cultural Anthropology only a couple of issues ago. A must read in these times

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Takeaway: The mid‑range returns as an engine for collective transformation. Nearness = intensity, not distance. Territory emerges from logistics, attention, and care—this is an augural territory. THREAD END

Municipal services quietly referred urgent cases to community networks. Pantries added paperwork desks, mental‑health signposting, and “quality time” triage.

Hacks that mattered: IFEMA field‑hospital overstocks rerouted to neighborhoods; hundreds of beds saved from disposal; WhatsApp alerts synchronized bulk pickups.

*Prophetic organizing* = seeing what’s here and what’s ahead. Grassroots collapsed near/far with improvised corridors, storage, and transport that bent the city’s topology.

3- Intensification—new regimes of attention. Hotlines rang 9am–midnight; weekly check‑ins with 2,346 elders; home deliveries to avoid shaming queues.

2- Lamination—layering knowledges. La Prospe launched a volunteer “taxi” for discharged patients—pairing drivers, stair help, routes, and care without algorithms. In Moratalaz, networks mapped buildings without lifts and targeted isolated elders—anticipating where vulnerability would spike.

Three grassroots operations:

1- Decoherence—taking territory apart and refitting it to needs (e.g., La Piluka’s zoned grid and satellite depots).

Citywide tally: 63 pantries reached 13,222 families (~46,000 people), thickening the city’s mesh with ad hoc transport, storage, and distribution lines

Institutional aid often flowed to NGOs based in affluent districts. Meanwhile, community pantries reconfigured ground realities with agile, local infrastructures.

Surprise during lockdown: richer neighborhoods registered higher Covid incidence than poorer ones—an inversion of Madrid’s usual inequality map.

Grassroots logistics overlaid new corridors and “systems of attention,” temporarily reorganizing care, interdependence, and health across Madrid.

The mid‑range isn’t an administrative scale. It’s a heuristic—spatial intuition for what a territory can bear—testing nearness/distance to make collective life possible.

Case: La Piluka (El Pilar). A small pantry became a district‑scale operation—6 zones, 3 new depots, weekly routes—serving ~200 families amid fear of contagion and fines.

Lockdown “unbuilt” the city’s routines. Community networks stepped in—redrawing corridors of movement, attention, and support.

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AUGURAL TERRITORIES: How pandemic Madrid’s grassroots reinvented urban life by working in the mid‑range—the space‑time between near and far where logistics, care, and improvisation rewire territory.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Ya está disponible el video de la conversación del pasado 15 de enero en el seminario de ciudadanía y género de la Fundación Ortega Marañón sobre malestares de las mediaciones digitales del género www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CGK...
Seminario de Genero, política y ciudadanía «Malestares de las mediaciones digitales en las ...»
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Just finished Steven Mithen’s The Language Puzzle, which fuses archaeology, linguistics, paleoanthropology, ethology, ethnography, and neuroscience with rare finesse. Learned a lot—an inspiring template for truly interdisciplinary research.

Me ha sorprendido que de la pandemia al accidente de Adamuz, pasando por la dana, ningún tertuliano, politóloga o experto se haya acordado de la teoría cultural del riesgo de Mary Douglas y sus modelos de respuesta organizacional. Así que he improvisado una tabla para navegar el ruido

Publicado en @ijurresearch.bsky.social el último artículo de nuestra investigación sobre las geografías y logísticas comunitarias del confinamiento en Madrid, donde reivindicamos el "medio alcance" como práctica y horizonte de territorialidad urbana

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Unpopular opinion: Tipos Infames sufre las consecuencias de la gentrificación, sí, pero también fue vanguardia de la misma. Que viene a demostrar los muchísimos años de negligencia en materia de gestión y diseño urbano que arrastra la ciudad

New article out! Thinking through “augural territories” as a way to understand the prophetic organising of mid-range urban futures. The results are now out in @ijurresearch.bsky.social
Read here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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¿Te refieres a una cuenta del proyecto en Bluesky? Si es así, me temo que no.

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Estrenamos página web del proyecto que nos traemos entre manos, que nos tiene muy ilusionados. Tenemos en marcha, además, varias actividades, así que no dejéis de echarle un vistazo por si quisierais apuntaros a alguna.
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