Areas of research and interest
Activism, cities, politics, NGOs, networks, stakeholders, mobility, public space, urbanism.
Regional focus: Mexico, Brazil, Spain
Contact
LMU Munich
Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Oettingenstr. 67
80538 Munich
Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Oettingenstr. 67
80538 Munich
Room:
U 167
Phone:
0049 (0)89-2180 9648
Email:
Raul.Acosta@ethnologie.lmu.de
Work group
- Manager of the sub-Project ‚Mexico City: Ethical Conjunctures, Globalized Environmental Discourses, and the Pursuit of a Better City’, in the context of the DFG-research project: Urbane Ethiken. Konflikte um gute und richtige städtische Lebensführung im 20. und 21. Jahrhundert, (DU 209/19-2) (2019-2021).
- Principal Investigator of the project ‘Aspirational Activism in Urban Latin America’
Academic career
- 2023 Habilitation, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU Munich)
- since 2019 Manager of the sub-project ‚Mexico City: Ethical Conjunctures, Globalized Environmental Discourses, and the Pursuit of a Better City’
- since 2016 Principal Investigator of the DFG project ‘Aspirational Activism in Urban Latin America’ an der University of Konstanz (2016-2018) und LMU (2019)
- 2016 (SS) Substitute professor for Jun. Prof. Dr. Judith Beyer, Universität Konstanz
- 2015 Research assisstant at the chair of Prof. Dr. Thomas Kirsch, Universität Konstanz
- 2014-2015 Teaching assignment, Universität Konstanz
- 2013 Employee, ITESO, Guadalajara, Mexico
- 2012-2013 Postoc researcher, University Deusto, Bilbao, Spain
- 2007-2011 Profesor-Investigador, ITESO, Guadalajara, Mexico
- 2003-2007 Doctorate (DPhil), Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Universität Oxford, mit einem Philip Bagby Stipendium von ISCA, UOxford. Doktorarbeit: Managing dissent: advocacy networks in the Brazilian Amazon and the Mediterranean
- 2001-2003 Master (MPhil), Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Universität Oxford. Masterarbeit: NGO and social movement networking in the World Social Forum: an anthropological approach.
- 1992-1998 Bachelor (Licenciatura), ITESO, Guadalajara, Mexiko.
Publikationen
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Links
Academia
http://lmu-munich.academia.edu/RaulAcosta
Research Gate
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Raul_Acosta4
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