El uso de isótopos estables como herramienta en la identificación de restos humanos sin identidad: una propuesta de trabado para el período de 1983 al presente

Según el informe publicado entre la Procuraduría de Trata y Explotación y la Colectiva de Intervención Ante las Violencias en el año 2015, la cantidad de personas fallecidas sin identidad conocida (NN) registradas en la República Argentina para el peri…

Urban Art and Cosmopolitanism

In this special issue on urban art and cosmopolitanism, we explore emergent inquiry and explorations into the role of arts, artists and the reception of arts in the urban public space as cosmopolitan articulations, interventions and methodologies. Base…

Urban Semantics through Law and Photography

The visual design of urban public spaces (hereinafter “cityscape”) has an important impact on city life – it can channel interpersonal communication into certain directions while excluding others; it can powerfully communicate notions of what is social…

Hesitation before the impact

This study has had a twofold ambition; to probe into the life in the museums, and to try out some concepts in a cultural policy research setting. The article does this by analysing encounters between art and visiting audiences with the use of “acontext…

Does Spotify Create Attachment?

This paper seeks to measure the extent to which algorithmically generated playlists, conceptualised herein as cultural intermediaries (Bourdieu 1984), create ‘attachment’ between consumers of music and producers of music. This was undertaken following …

Feeding genders

Juliet comes from Nigeria and has been living in Italy for the past 20 years. “Where I come from, a woman who does not know how to cook cannot get married”, she told me (Mauriello) when we first met during my fieldwork in Naples. Stories told by…

Cooking more than food

In contemporary rural Mali, when it comes to cooking, there is a strict division of labour. Women always make the meals. Each and every day, they transform raw ingredients into cooked fare for themselves and their families. Through their quotidi…