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Imagining, and struggling in, Lisbon’s East Side
Publication . Tulumello, Simone
Cosmopolitan, racialized, or both: Conflicting imaginaries in Mouraria
Publication . Tulumello, Simone
Infra-structural Violence: On the Violence that Holds Us Together
Publication . Pavoni, Andrea; Tulumello, Simone
How to define, and conceptualise, violence? This is a problem the social sciences and humanities have long wrestled with, often framing violence as an abstract, moral, and normative question, which prevented them from capturing its complexity. Violence, we suggest, is a tension force that is constitutive of, and immanent to, social, material, and spatial relations, simultaneously weaving them together and threatening to disrupt them. At the same time, violence cannot be reduced to an epiphenomenon of an overarching process such as Capitalism: it does not simply result from the unfolding of structures and global processes; rather, it takes material existence in the frictional encounter with these very structures and processes. In this article, we build on, and push beyond, recent theorisations on infrastructure and infrastructural violence to introduce the concept of ‘infra-structural violence’ – where the hyphen emphasises the relational, tensional and somatic in-between – as a way to rework symbolic/economic notions of structural violence towards an ontological, epistemological and ethical ‘statics’ of violence, which is attuned to its disrupting, constructive, and preserving quality.
Urban Violence: Security, Imaginary, Atmosphere
Publication . Pavoni, Andrea; Tulumello, Simone
‘What is urban violence?’ is a question that has not been answered satisfactorily: this book starts by showing that urban violence is under-theorised because long-term problems with both of its elements (‘urban’ and ‘violence’), despite having been addressed at length, remain alive and kicking when the two concepts come together. To answer these questions, this book argues, urban violence must be explored by focusing at the same time on questions of ontology, epistemology and ethics – and by articulating urban and violence with a third concept ‘security’. The central argument of this book is that, through a genealogy that articulates political economic and vital materialism, urban violence can be framed as a precise category shaped by three interlocking trajectories: the process of (capitalist) urbanisation, which ontologically structures the realm in which urban violence emerges; the spatio-political project of the urban, which – through the imaginaries of urbanisation and absolute security – constitutes the epistemological realm against which urban violence is made visible; and the concrete atmospheres in and through which the process and the project materialise, often violently so, in the urban.
Urban change and the uneven geography of Covid-19 lockdowns: Insights from the use of running as a method in Lisbon
Publication . Tulumello, Simone
Though much has been written on the urban politics of the Covid-19 pandemic, systematic, qualitative data on the uneven geography of the lockdowns are fundamentally missing, in large part because of the limitations of stay-at-home orders for fieldwork research. This article reports from the first study to have directly observed, and systematically mapped, the uneven distribution of the impacts of a lockdown over a city and its public spaces. Between January and March 2021, during Portugal’s second national lockdown, I used running as a method to collect observational data on public spaces of the city of Lisbon. Building on this systematic mapping, I link the geography of impacts of the lockdown with trajectories of urban change: on the one hand, I reflect on the variegation of impacts vis-` a-vis patterns of uneven urban development; and, on the other, discuss the role of visibility and vitality of activities in the public space in shaping the political rationalities of the lockdown.
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
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3599-PPCDT
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PTDC/GES-URB/1053/2021