Wetland Politics: Social Belonging, Racialized Politics, and Urban Environmental Futures in Cartagena (Colombia)
This book project investigates how urban wetlands become sites of political contestation in the context of climate change. Focusing on Cartagena’s Ciénaga de la Virgen and the surrounding Comuna 6, it examines how racialized histories, infrastructural interventions, and environmental governance shape everyday experiences of belonging and exclusion. By foregrounding local knowledge and narratives of distrust and displacement, the project contributes to debates on climate coloniality and the decolonization of urban environmental politics.
Laughter in the City: On Humour, Urban Sociality, and Infrastructure in Goma (DR Congo)
This book project examines how humour functions as a social and analytical lens in contexts of urban uncertainty. Drawing on ethnographic research in Goma, it explores how residents engage with volatile political, economic, and infrastructural conditions through everyday practices of joking, irony, and satire. The project argues that humour is not merely expressive, but constitutive of urban sociality, revealing how people navigate fragmentation, authority, and instability in contemporary African cities.