Urban Ethics as Research Agenda

Raúl Acosta is a social anthropologist specialized in urban and environmental governance. He has conducted fieldwork in Mexico, Brazil, Spain, Venezuela and Peru. He is the author of Civil Becomings (2020) as well as numerous articles and chapters. He carried out research in Mexico City as part of the Urban Ethics Research Group.Eveline Dürr is Professor of Social Anthropology at the LMU Munich. She has roles as PI in the Urban Ethics research group (2015–2021) and as co-chair of the Collaborative Research Centre "Culture of Vigilance". She researches human-environment relations in Latin America, the USA and Oceania.Moritz Ege is Professor at the Department of Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies of the University of Zurich. He was PI at the Urban Ethics research group. His interests lie in everyday and popular culture both in contemporary and in historical perspectives.Ursula Prutsch is Professor of American and Latin American History at the LMU Munich. Among her nine monographs are one on Eva Perón (2015), a cultural history of Brazil (co-authored in 2014), an analysis on Populism in the USA and Latin America (2019) and a biography on Austria's cartridge producer and Fascist Fritz Mandl (2022).Clemens van Loyen studied Romance languages, sociology, political science and philosophy. His dissertation explores the concept of anthropophagy from a philosophical and historical perspective in relation to the Jewish cultural theorist Vilém Flusser. His areas of interest range from Brazilian history of ideas to translation studies and cultural-historical urban research.Gordon M. Winder is Professor of Economic Geography and Sustainability Research at the LMU Munich. An economic and historical geographer, he researches sustainability issues related to resource-based economies and rebuilding after disaster. He publishes on resilience and transition-making, innovation, manufacturing and business networks and geographies of the news.

• Introduction: Researching urban ethics at the dawn of the urban centuryRaúl Acosta, Eveline Dürr, Gordon WinderChapter 1. Urban sovereignty in a time of crisis: territorialities of governance and the ethics of careDiane E. DavisChapter 2. Urban mobility governance flows: ethical bases of political becomingsRaúl AcostaChapter 3. The political ecology of a diverse urban ethics of marine stewardship in Auckland, Aotearoa New ZealandMarie AschenbrennerChapter 4. Conflictual planning in the Olympic City: Vila Autódromo’s experience, Rio de JaneiroFernanda Sánchez, Fabrício Leal de Oliveira, Carlos VainerChapter 5. The transformation of the ‘Valongo Complex’: New perspectives on the historic port area of Rio de JaneiroClemens van LoyenChapter 6. Restorative justice in Georgia: on the limited recognition of prostitution in Tbilisi 1991-2020Liana Kupreischvili and Guido HausmannChapter 7. Traversing troubled waters: emergent ethics and pandemic politicsJohn ClarkeChapter 8. On the impossibility of collaboration: solidarity, power and loneliness in feminist, workerist and (urban) ethnographic methodologyOlga ReznikovaChapter 9. Voluntary mentoring: relationship-building as an urban-ethical practice in MunichLaura GozzerChapter 10. Sacks and the city. Secondary burials in Naples and New YorkUlrich van LoyenChapter 11. Producing community: An "ethopolitics" of Berlin’s crisis-driven urban restructuringMax OttConclusion: Urban ethics as research agendaMoritz Ege, Christoph K. Neumann, Ursula Prutsch