Alejandro Miranda
Biographic Data
| ID | 3994514 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alejandro Miranda |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alejandro |
| FAMILY NAME | Miranda |
| SIGNATURE | MIRANDA A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Trento |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4630-4379 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 40 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Somatic agency and the sensory construction of familiarity among Ecuadorian migrants in the Netherlands
This article examines how embodied, multisensory interactions influence migrants’ experiences of familiarity, proposing that familiarity is not just cognitive or emotional but a socio-embodied phenomenon integrating bodily sensations with social practices. Building on studies that show how social practices like food, music and rituals foster belonging among migrants, we argue that sensory engagement is fundamental to the formation of familiarity.…
Making Neighbor Relations Through Materialities and Senses
Many scholars have turned to neighboring, or neighbor interactions and practices, as an open-ended process rather than a finished ideal. In doing so, they have disrupted the romanticization of the neighborhood as a community-driven and stable space. Through this lens, the proximity of dwelling is seen just as a possibility for social contact rather than a crucial characteristic of neighbor relations. Amid the rapid transformations in contemporary…
Home making without a home
Diversifying Chile’s climate action away from industrial plantations
Home in question
What is the opposite of home? Is it necessarily something ‘negative’? Similar questions, far from having a self-evident answer, make for a fruitful entry point for research into the social experience of home. Central to this article is a novel conceptualization of non-home, against the background of the pre-existing criticisms of the normative, romanticized and depoliticized understandings of home. This article draws from fieldwork on the everyda…
Collective thinking in the field
Comment étudier aujourd’hui la mobilité, en pratique ? Les multiples plaidoyers en faveur des ethnographies multi-situées (depuis Marcus, 1995) ont favorisé la multiplication des enquêtes qualitatives internationales ; mais la transnationalisation de méthodes ethnographiques, développées à l’échelle locale, suscite de nouveaux défis. Dans cet article, les membres du projet ERC HOMInG reviennent sur les difficultés rencontrées, et solutions dévelo…
Ethnographies of Home and Mobility
Evidence-based mapping of the wildland-urban interface to better identify human communities threatened by wildfires
The wildland-urban interface (WUI) is the spatial manifestation of human communities coupled with vegetated ecosystems. Spatial delineation of the WUI is important for wildfire policy and management, but is typically defined according to spatial relationships between housing development and wildland vegetation without explicit consideration of fire risk. A fire risk-based definition of WUI can enable a better distribution of management investment…
Natural forests loss and tree plantations
Distinguishing between natural forests from exotic tree plantations is essential to get an accurate picture of the world’s state of forests. Most exotic tree plantations support lower levels of biodiversity and have less potential for ecosystem services supply than natural forests, and differencing them is still a challenge using standard tools. We use a novel approach in south-central of Chile to differentiate tree cover dynamics among natural f…
Landscape restoration in a mixed agricultural-forest catchment
At Home in the Restaurant
Making and consuming food are evident aspects in migrants' construction and reproduction of memory, identity and belonging. Food consumption can also enable migrants to make themselves at home abroad by reproducing aspects of their past and relating them to particular places in the present. This article draws from ethnographic work in Ecuadorian restaurants in Madrid to investigate the 'domestication' of space through their material culture. It e…
Introduction
No abstract available
Musical Mobilities
How do musical practices move? Though technology increasingly plays a great part in establishing different degrees of spatial proximity, music making still seems to be tied to specific geographical locations, cultures or communities. The identity of musical traditions, in particular, is often demarcated by a presumed degree of uniformity amongst its practitioners. Musical Mobilities analyses how a musical tradition moves literally and metaphorica…
Home in question
What is the opposite of home? Is it necessarily something ‘negative’? Similar questions, far from having a self-evident answer, make for a fruitful entry point for research into the social experience of home. Central to this article is a novel conceptualization of non-home, against the background of the pre-existing criticisms of the normative, romanticized and depoliticized understandings of home. This article draws from fieldwork on the everyda…
At Home in the Restaurant
Making and consuming food are evident aspects in migrants' construction and reproduction of memory, identity and belonging. Food consumption can also enable migrants to make themselves at home abroad by reproducing aspects of their past and relating them to particular places in the present. This article draws from ethnographic work in Ecuadorian restaurants in Madrid to investigate the 'domestication' of space through their material culture. It e…
Home making without a home
Somatic agency and the sensory construction of familiarity among Ecuadorian migrants in the Netherlands
This article examines how embodied, multisensory interactions influence migrants’ experiences of familiarity, proposing that familiarity is not just cognitive or emotional but a socio-embodied phenomenon integrating bodily sensations with social practices. Building on studies that show how social practices like food, music and rituals foster belonging among migrants, we argue that sensory engagement is fundamental to the formation of familiarity.…
Making Neighbor Relations Through Materialities and Senses
Many scholars have turned to neighboring, or neighbor interactions and practices, as an open-ended process rather than a finished ideal. In doing so, they have disrupted the romanticization of the neighborhood as a community-driven and stable space. Through this lens, the proximity of dwelling is seen just as a possibility for social contact rather than a crucial characteristic of neighbor relations. Amid the rapid transformations in contemporary…
Diversifying Chile’s climate action away from industrial plantations
Musical Mobilities
How do musical practices move? Though technology increasingly plays a great part in establishing different degrees of spatial proximity, music making still seems to be tied to specific geographical locations, cultures or communities. The identity of musical traditions, in particular, is often demarcated by a presumed degree of uniformity amongst its practitioners. Musical Mobilities analyses how a musical tradition moves literally and metaphorica…
Introduction
No abstract available
Collective thinking in the field
Comment étudier aujourd’hui la mobilité, en pratique ? Les multiples plaidoyers en faveur des ethnographies multi-situées (depuis Marcus, 1995) ont favorisé la multiplication des enquêtes qualitatives internationales ; mais la transnationalisation de méthodes ethnographiques, développées à l’échelle locale, suscite de nouveaux défis. Dans cet article, les membres du projet ERC HOMInG reviennent sur les difficultés rencontrées, et solutions dévelo…
Ethnographies of Home and Mobility
Evidence-based mapping of the wildland-urban interface to better identify human communities threatened by wildfires
The wildland-urban interface (WUI) is the spatial manifestation of human communities coupled with vegetated ecosystems. Spatial delineation of the WUI is important for wildfire policy and management, but is typically defined according to spatial relationships between housing development and wildland vegetation without explicit consideration of fire risk. A fire risk-based definition of WUI can enable a better distribution of management investment…
Natural forests loss and tree plantations
Distinguishing between natural forests from exotic tree plantations is essential to get an accurate picture of the world’s state of forests. Most exotic tree plantations support lower levels of biodiversity and have less potential for ecosystem services supply than natural forests, and differencing them is still a challenge using standard tools. We use a novel approach in south-central of Chile to differentiate tree cover dynamics among natural f…
Landscape restoration in a mixed agricultural-forest catchment
At Home in the Restaurant
Making and consuming food are evident aspects in migrants' construction and reproduction of memory, identity and belonging. Food consumption can also enable migrants to make themselves at home abroad by reproducing aspects of their past and relating them to particular places in the present. This article draws from ethnographic work in Ecuadorian restaurants in Madrid to investigate the 'domestication' of space through their material culture. It e…
Diversifying Chile’s climate action away from industrial plantations
Home in question
What is the opposite of home? Is it necessarily something ‘negative’? Similar questions, far from having a self-evident answer, make for a fruitful entry point for research into the social experience of home. Central to this article is a novel conceptualization of non-home, against the background of the pre-existing criticisms of the normative, romanticized and depoliticized understandings of home. This article draws from fieldwork on the everyda…
Home making without a home
Making Neighbor Relations Through Materialities and Senses
Many scholars have turned to neighboring, or neighbor interactions and practices, as an open-ended process rather than a finished ideal. In doing so, they have disrupted the romanticization of the neighborhood as a community-driven and stable space. Through this lens, the proximity of dwelling is seen just as a possibility for social contact rather than a crucial characteristic of neighbor relations. Amid the rapid transformations in contemporary…
Somatic agency and the sensory construction of familiarity among Ecuadorian migrants in the Netherlands
This article examines how embodied, multisensory interactions influence migrants’ experiences of familiarity, proposing that familiarity is not just cognitive or emotional but a socio-embodied phenomenon integrating bodily sensations with social practices. Building on studies that show how social practices like food, music and rituals foster belonging among migrants, we argue that sensory engagement is fundamental to the formation of familiarity.…
Sociology (7 works) · Ecology (5 works) · Geography (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Environmental Science (4 works) · Agroforestry (3 works) · Anthropology (3 works) · Biodiversity (3 works) · Business (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works)