Eveline Dürr
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 114941 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Eveline Dürr |
| NOMBRES | Eveline |
| APELLIDO | Dürr |
| FIRMA | DÜRR E |
| AFILIACIONES | Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4714-6627 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 30 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 68 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 28 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2005 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Cultura preventiva
Indigenous anthropologists from the Upper Rio Negro call what their religious specialists do a “preventive culture” (cultura preventiva), referring to a specific temporality that structures their strategies of healing. Their form of healing reaches back to a mythical primordium, drawing on the transformative power of creation time to secure existence in the present. Preventive healing in Northwestern Amazonia is based on a cyclic understanding of…
Conceptualising healing in human-environment entanglements
This special collection advances “healing” as an analytical lens for examining (non)human–environment relations amid planetary crisis in the Americas. By shifting attention from damage to the practices that seek to heal disrupted relations, it argues that centring Indigenous and local perspectives can generate innovative responses to environmental challenges and broader social transformation. Drawing on de-colonial and feminist approaches, the co…
Vigilance upon return
My paper explores the (un)told stories of migrants who have returned from the United States to small-town Mexico, focussing on their strategies for (re)integration into their communities. Specifically, it examines how returnees navigate perceived status differences, expectations regarding upward social mobility, and questions of belonging. My research posits that returnees are subject to scrutiny in their everyday lives and are aware of this. I a…
Introduction
In this introduction, we propose that people pursuing upward social mobility in uncertain and often adverse contexts must be watchful as a key condition of “moving up.” We develop a conceptual framework that connects social mobility with vigilance—not in the narrow sense of state-driven surveillance, but as a broader constellation of watchfulness that aligns personal attentiveness with goals and responsibilities extending beyond individual advanc…
No Feierabend after Fieldwork?
In this essay, the authors reflect on the (im)possibility of "Feierabend" and leisure time in their early fieldwork experiences as postdocs in the 1990s. What prevented them from "withdrawing" from fieldwork, they argue, was related to their positionalities as "other" or "different" in their specific fieldwork sites in rural Mexico and India, respectively. While Eveline Dürr dealt with the sensation of standing out and being observed while conduc…
Dirty Borders, Clean Women
How do Mexican-American women in the US-Mexico borderlands respond to insecurity relating to multiple forms of discrimination? The present article compares the experiences of women of different class and ethnic backgrounds to analyze their gendered watchfulness in response to the racialized and classed anti-immigrant vigilance of privileged Anglo-Americans. We argue that, in a context of ongoing coloniality, maintaining an exploitable racialized …
Chapter 2 A Hall of Mirrors
Watchful Lives in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands
Watchfulness shapes many Chicanxs’ and other People of Color’s everyday lives in San Diego. Experiencing racist discrimination can lead to becoming vigilant, which frames their subjectivity. Focusing particularly on Chicanxs, we show how they seek to intervene against structural inequalities and threats in their lives, such as by re-claiming space, consciousness raising, participating in protests, and healing practices. We argue that contestation…
Irritations and Unforeseen Consequences of the Urban
"Wachsame Umweltschützer und die Macht des „Guten" im indigenen Ökotourismus in Mexiko
This article investigates the unintended consequences of community-based ecotourism in the Sierra de Juárez in Oaxaca, Mexico. The state sponsors the implementation of eco-tourism in Indigenous communities to foster economic opportunities, "development," and sociocultural inclusion. Several villages adopt this programme, displaying the rich biodiversity of their localities, revitalising their ecological knowledge and sharing cultural traditions w…
Belonging in Oceania
Ethnographic case studies explore what it means to “belong” in Oceania, as contributors consider ongoing formations of place, self and community in connection with travelling, internal and international migration. The chapters apply the multi-dimensional concepts of movement, place-making and cultural identifications to explain contemporary life in Oceanic societies. The volume closes by suggesting that constructions of multiple belongings—and, w…
Re-imagining cities as ecosystems
The constitution of environmental subjects by governments and civil society organizations around the world has taken place within a framework of neoliberal urbanization. This entails promoting an individual sense of responsibility over urban environments among city dwellers. The approach used is not so much governmentality as environmentality, because of its focus on environmental matters. We claim that the tools used in this process are designed…
Vigilance, Knowledge, and De/colonization
This article shows how vigilance against racism and coloniality in the US-Mexico borderlands produces knowledge, highlighting the decolonizing potential of their dynamic entanglement. Before the Black Lives Matter protests against police violence across the United States in late May 2020, many Latin@s in San Diego, California, already anticipated racial discrimination and violence in light of growing anti-migration sentiment. Those Latin@s who to…
Planetary Healing
Fluid Personhood and the Fuzziness of Life
Introduction
Brokers and Tours
This article explores how so-called “slum” tourism commodifies poverty and violence, transforming urban deprivation into a tourism product. In particular, we pay ethnographic attention to the role of brokers who mediate encounters between residents and tourists. The article explores how brokers—tour guides, art curators and civil society organizations—work to mediate power structures and enact a specific representational-performative politics. In…
What does poverty feel like? Urban inequality and the politics of sensation
The emergent field of ‘sensory urbanism’ studies how socio-spatial boundaries are policed through sensorial means. Such studies have tended to focus on either formal policies that seek to control territories and populations through a governance of the senses, or on more everyday micro-politics of exclusion where conflicts are articulated in a sensory form. This article seeks to extend this work by concentrating on contexts where people deliberate…
Urban ethics
Highlights • Introduces, defines and sets the scope for a new approach in urban studies: "urban ethics". • Identifies a new conjuncture of ethics. • Relates urban ethics to social creativity, urban governance, moral economies, and social and environmental justice
Barrio BravoTransformed
El presente artículo analiza los procesos del desarrollo urbano y la política cultura en la Ciudad de México, concentrándose en la manera en que la restructuración de las ciudades, guidada por políticas neoliberales y la economía simbólica, impacta distritos desfavorecidos. A partir de la investigación etnográfica, hacemos uso del turismo en el conocido barrio Tepito como lente para explorar cómo los diferentes actores interactúan con estos proce…
Environmental Transformations and Cultural Responses
This book explores the various ways in which different communities and peoples in Oceania respond to and engage with recent environmental challenges and concurrent socio-political reconfigurations. Ba
Negotiating New Roles and Relationships in the Jungle
This article scrutinises the impact of ecotourism in Artam, Ecuador, on the Shuar's perception of the rain forest, and consequently, on themselves.The Amazon rainforest, which has always been subject to myriad imaginations and desires, gained new momentum in the context of global discourses on environmental protection, biodiversity and conservation.Taking the Shuar's welcome speech to the tourists as point of departure, we examine conceptions of …
Theorizing Slum Tourism
This Exploration focuses on the emerging field of slum tourism research, which has the potential to connect Latin American and Caribbean studies on tourism and urban inequality. Slum tourism involves transforming poverty, squalor and violence into a tourism product. Drawing on both altruism and voyeurism, this form of tourism is a complex phenomenon that raises various questions concerning power, inequality and subjectivity. This essay seeks to a…
Encounters over Garbage
This article explores a tour to the garbage dump in the city of Mazatlán, northern Mexico, as an alternative to mass tourism. The tour, conducted by an evangelical North American church, is conceptualized as a non-profit, eye-opening experience for affluent tourists. I frame the tour as a particular kind of slum tourism, which is embedded in Christian values and promises a meaningful tourist experience by helping the poor. Drawing on an ethnograp…
Urban Poverty, Spatial Representation and Mobility
This article draws attention to a controversial activity in poor urban neighborhoods. Slum tourism is a growing business worldwide and simultaneously it is a new form of encounter between the global South and the global North. Following the new mobilities paradigm, I investigate a particular form of slum tourism, which intertwines urban poverty and charity, representation and powerful imaginaries, tourist mobility and transnational lifestyles. Th…
What does poverty feel like? Urban inequality and the politics of sensation
The emergent field of ‘sensory urbanism’ studies how socio-spatial boundaries are policed through sensorial means. Such studies have tended to focus on either formal policies that seek to control territories and populations through a governance of the senses, or on more everyday micro-politics of exclusion where conflicts are articulated in a sensory form. This article seeks to extend this work by concentrating on contexts where people deliberate…
Theorizing Slum Tourism
This Exploration focuses on the emerging field of slum tourism research, which has the potential to connect Latin American and Caribbean studies on tourism and urban inequality. Slum tourism involves transforming poverty, squalor and violence into a tourism product. Drawing on both altruism and voyeurism, this form of tourism is a complex phenomenon that raises various questions concerning power, inequality and subjectivity. This essay seeks to a…
Encounters over Garbage
This article explores a tour to the garbage dump in the city of Mazatlán, northern Mexico, as an alternative to mass tourism. The tour, conducted by an evangelical North American church, is conceptualized as a non-profit, eye-opening experience for affluent tourists. I frame the tour as a particular kind of slum tourism, which is embedded in Christian values and promises a meaningful tourist experience by helping the poor. Drawing on an ethnograp…
Urban Poverty, Spatial Representation and Mobility
This article draws attention to a controversial activity in poor urban neighborhoods. Slum tourism is a growing business worldwide and simultaneously it is a new form of encounter between the global South and the global North. Following the new mobilities paradigm, I investigate a particular form of slum tourism, which intertwines urban poverty and charity, representation and powerful imaginaries, tourist mobility and transnational lifestyles. Th…
Brokers and Tours
This article explores how so-called “slum” tourism commodifies poverty and violence, transforming urban deprivation into a tourism product. In particular, we pay ethnographic attention to the role of brokers who mediate encounters between residents and tourists. The article explores how brokers—tour guides, art curators and civil society organizations—work to mediate power structures and enact a specific representational-performative politics. In…
To Belong in Aotearoa New Zealand
In this paper, I give voice to Latin Americans' ideas about belonging in Aotearoa New Zealand society. As a small, low-profile migrant community in Auckland, their self-positioning in the urban social matrix is especially interesting because of New Zealand's official policy as a bicultural nation, aspiring to an equal partnership between indigenous Māori and Pākehā (European New Zealanders). This study is situated in the context of transnational …
Urban ethics
Highlights • Introduces, defines and sets the scope for a new approach in urban studies: "urban ethics". • Identifies a new conjuncture of ethics. • Relates urban ethics to social creativity, urban governance, moral economies, and social and environmental justice
Barrio BravoTransformed
El presente artículo analiza los procesos del desarrollo urbano y la política cultura en la Ciudad de México, concentrándose en la manera en que la restructuración de las ciudades, guidada por políticas neoliberales y la economía simbólica, impacta distritos desfavorecidos. A partir de la investigación etnográfica, hacemos uso del turismo en el conocido barrio Tepito como lente para explorar cómo los diferentes actores interactúan con estos proce…
Translating Democracy
In 992, Mexico modified its constitution as part of the reformation of its political landscape and recognised cultural diversity. This transition to democracy is embedded in economic and social transformations of the Mexican society and shaped by a revised normative assessment of its indigenous peoples. In the southern state of Oaxaca, the local constitution acknowledged indigenous autonomy in accordance with traditional customs and legal practi…
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Arcadia in the Antipodes
This article directs attention to German tourists' fascination with New Zealand. I first scrutinise New Zealand's representation and reveal the ways it is invented and conceptualised by the tourist industry as a 'pure' nature paradise and island reserve. I point to the residual effect of representations and argue that Tourism New Zealand's advertising strategies, international perception and national identity are intertwined and mutually construc…
Urban Pollution
To Belong in Aotearoa New Zealand
In this paper, I give voice to Latin Americans' ideas about belonging in Aotearoa New Zealand society. As a small, low-profile migrant community in Auckland, their self-positioning in the urban social matrix is especially interesting because of New Zealand's official policy as a bicultural nation, aspiring to an equal partnership between indigenous Māori and Pākehā (European New Zealanders). This study is situated in the context of transnational …
Theorizing Slum Tourism
This Exploration focuses on the emerging field of slum tourism research, which has the potential to connect Latin American and Caribbean studies on tourism and urban inequality. Slum tourism involves transforming poverty, squalor and violence into a tourism product. Drawing on both altruism and voyeurism, this form of tourism is a complex phenomenon that raises various questions concerning power, inequality and subjectivity. This essay seeks to a…
Encounters over Garbage
This article explores a tour to the garbage dump in the city of Mazatlán, northern Mexico, as an alternative to mass tourism. The tour, conducted by an evangelical North American church, is conceptualized as a non-profit, eye-opening experience for affluent tourists. I frame the tour as a particular kind of slum tourism, which is embedded in Christian values and promises a meaningful tourist experience by helping the poor. Drawing on an ethnograp…
Urban Poverty, Spatial Representation and Mobility
This article draws attention to a controversial activity in poor urban neighborhoods. Slum tourism is a growing business worldwide and simultaneously it is a new form of encounter between the global South and the global North. Following the new mobilities paradigm, I investigate a particular form of slum tourism, which intertwines urban poverty and charity, representation and powerful imaginaries, tourist mobility and transnational lifestyles. Th…
Negotiating New Roles and Relationships in the Jungle
This article scrutinises the impact of ecotourism in Artam, Ecuador, on the Shuar's perception of the rain forest, and consequently, on themselves.The Amazon rainforest, which has always been subject to myriad imaginations and desires, gained new momentum in the context of global discourses on environmental protection, biodiversity and conservation.Taking the Shuar's welcome speech to the tourists as point of departure, we examine conceptions of …
Environmental Transformations and Cultural Responses
This book explores the various ways in which different communities and peoples in Oceania respond to and engage with recent environmental challenges and concurrent socio-political reconfigurations. Ba
Brokers and Tours
This article explores how so-called “slum” tourism commodifies poverty and violence, transforming urban deprivation into a tourism product. In particular, we pay ethnographic attention to the role of brokers who mediate encounters between residents and tourists. The article explores how brokers—tour guides, art curators and civil society organizations—work to mediate power structures and enact a specific representational-performative politics. In…
What does poverty feel like? Urban inequality and the politics of sensation
The emergent field of ‘sensory urbanism’ studies how socio-spatial boundaries are policed through sensorial means. Such studies have tended to focus on either formal policies that seek to control territories and populations through a governance of the senses, or on more everyday micro-politics of exclusion where conflicts are articulated in a sensory form. This article seeks to extend this work by concentrating on contexts where people deliberate…
Urban ethics
Highlights • Introduces, defines and sets the scope for a new approach in urban studies: "urban ethics". • Identifies a new conjuncture of ethics. • Relates urban ethics to social creativity, urban governance, moral economies, and social and environmental justice
Barrio BravoTransformed
El presente artículo analiza los procesos del desarrollo urbano y la política cultura en la Ciudad de México, concentrándose en la manera en que la restructuración de las ciudades, guidada por políticas neoliberales y la economía simbólica, impacta distritos desfavorecidos. A partir de la investigación etnográfica, hacemos uso del turismo en el conocido barrio Tepito como lente para explorar cómo los diferentes actores interactúan con estos proce…
Introduction
Fluid Personhood and the Fuzziness of Life
Belonging in Oceania
Ethnographic case studies explore what it means to “belong” in Oceania, as contributors consider ongoing formations of place, self and community in connection with travelling, internal and international migration. The chapters apply the multi-dimensional concepts of movement, place-making and cultural identifications to explain contemporary life in Oceanic societies. The volume closes by suggesting that constructions of multiple belongings—and, w…
Re-imagining cities as ecosystems
The constitution of environmental subjects by governments and civil society organizations around the world has taken place within a framework of neoliberal urbanization. This entails promoting an individual sense of responsibility over urban environments among city dwellers. The approach used is not so much governmentality as environmentality, because of its focus on environmental matters. We claim that the tools used in this process are designed…
Vigilance, Knowledge, and De/colonization
This article shows how vigilance against racism and coloniality in the US-Mexico borderlands produces knowledge, highlighting the decolonizing potential of their dynamic entanglement. Before the Black Lives Matter protests against police violence across the United States in late May 2020, many Latin@s in San Diego, California, already anticipated racial discrimination and violence in light of growing anti-migration sentiment. Those Latin@s who to…
Planetary Healing
Chapter 2 A Hall of Mirrors
Watchful Lives in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands
Watchfulness shapes many Chicanxs’ and other People of Color’s everyday lives in San Diego. Experiencing racist discrimination can lead to becoming vigilant, which frames their subjectivity. Focusing particularly on Chicanxs, we show how they seek to intervene against structural inequalities and threats in their lives, such as by re-claiming space, consciousness raising, participating in protests, and healing practices. We argue that contestation…
Irritations and Unforeseen Consequences of the Urban
"Wachsame Umweltschützer und die Macht des „Guten" im indigenen Ökotourismus in Mexiko
This article investigates the unintended consequences of community-based ecotourism in the Sierra de Juárez in Oaxaca, Mexico. The state sponsors the implementation of eco-tourism in Indigenous communities to foster economic opportunities, "development," and sociocultural inclusion. Several villages adopt this programme, displaying the rich biodiversity of their localities, revitalising their ecological knowledge and sharing cultural traditions w…
No Feierabend after Fieldwork?
In this essay, the authors reflect on the (im)possibility of "Feierabend" and leisure time in their early fieldwork experiences as postdocs in the 1990s. What prevented them from "withdrawing" from fieldwork, they argue, was related to their positionalities as "other" or "different" in their specific fieldwork sites in rural Mexico and India, respectively. While Eveline Dürr dealt with the sensation of standing out and being observed while conduc…
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