G Carabelli
Biographic Data
| ID | 41522 |
|---|---|
| NAME | G Carabelli |
| GIVEN NAMES | G |
| FAMILY NAME | Carabelli |
| SIGNATURE | CARABELLI G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queen Mary University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7427-3923 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 52 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Teaching with Plants as Liberatory Practice: Posthuman Pedagogies and The Sociological Imagination
This article discusses the design, teaching and student assessment developed for ‘More than Human Politics’, a third-year undergraduate module, which is currently about the environmental, social and political significance of plants. Drawing on feminist pedagogies aligned with new materialism and posthumanism, this article reports on experiments with plants in the classroom that cultivate modes of navigating climate (and other) crises while champi…
Making Home with Plants: Pandemic Edition
This article discusses the roles of houseplants in making home and building worlds. It draws on empirical data gathered by Care for Plants; a project started during the first Covid-19 lockdown in the UK to research why people embraced (or intensified) their care-work with plants. Starting from the observation that houseplants had taken a pivotal role in re-making everyday life under conditions of restricted mobility, reduced sociality, and increa…
Time with houseplants: A sociological analysis of temporalities, affective entanglements and practices of care
This article contributes to a sociology of time and rhythm as well as a sociology of human-plant relations. It argues that sociology should take an interest in houseplants because studying human-plant relations in the domestic sphere offers novel possibilities for exploring wider sociological themes such as multispecies interactions, intimacy and identity as well as time and everyday life. The article analyses houseplant care practices and their …
Post-reconstruction enclosures: An infrastructural perspective on the post-conflict landscape of the Old City (Mostar)
This article looks at the landscape of the Old City of Mostar eighteen years after the reconstruction of its famous Old Bridge.The reconstruction project took place within broader international peace-building efforts, foregrounding the bridge as a symbol of multicultural reconciliation and initiating the development of tourism.We explore a landscape perspective to reflect on the aftermath of this neoliberal peacebuilding project which created a c…
Image-Maker in Residence: Care for Plants
Living with Houseplants: Pandemic diaries of more than human solidarities
Plants, Vegetables, Lawn: Radical Solidarities in Pandemic Times
This essay presents photos and words illustrating practices of care in homes shared by humans and plants during the COVID-19 pandemic. Drawing on interviews with plant carers, I highlight how humans (re)discovered plants as kin during forced social isolation. I reflect on how plants provided joy, hope, and reassurance during crisis, enabling strong affective bonds with their human carers. I read the creation/cementing of affective bonds between h…
What’s off-centre of empire? Introduction to the special issue
In this Introduction, we discuss the aims of this publication along with guidelines to locate and connect the essays part of the edited volume. We start by highlighting the original contribution of our intervention in terms of what off-centring empire offers in relation to scholarship that de-centres empire. To us, this means to look at the processes, dynamics, and movements that connect empire (as a centre of power) to its peripheries (as a site…
The bench
Love, activism, and the possibility of radical social change in Mostar
This article reflects on the meanings and possibilities of social change in Mostar, a city more often associated with the seeming impossibility of eradicating ethno-national divisions and corruption that paralyses it. It focuses on the under-researched politics of grassroots activism by drawing on Hardt’s and Negri’s work on the political potential of ‘love’ to shape and propel radical politics. Overall, the article reveals the lack of a cohesive…
Challenging the representation of ethnically divided cities: Perspectives from Mostar
In this introduction, we discuss the scope of the edited volume by outlining the position of Mostar within much broader academic debates on ‘ethnically divided cities’. We question the representations of such contested cities as hopeless spaces of division, and suggest to explore instead the cracks that challenge overpowering logics of partition: the self-directed attempts at inter-ethnic solidarity, grassroots movements for social justice and di…
Habsburg coffeehouses in the shadow of the empire: Revisiting nostalgia in Trieste
This article reflects on Trieste's representation as 'the ghost of its Habsburg past' (Hametz, M. 2014. 'Presnitz in the Piazza: Habsburg Nostalgia in Trieste.' Journal of Austrian Studies 47 (2): 131-154. doi:10.1353/oas.2014.0029., 136) - a city that laments the irreversibility of time - to explore instead the ways in which nostalgic attachments to the empire have come under suspicion. Drawing on interviews, literary texts, and atmospheric data…
The Divided City and the Grassroots: The (Un)making of Ethnic Divisions in Mostar
The Everyday Life of Mostar
Young people's orientations to the future: Navigating the present and imagining the future
This article discusses the findings of the Imagine Sheppey project (2013–2014) which studied how young people are ‘oriented’ towards the future. The aim and approach of the project were to explore future imaginaries in a participatory, experimental, and performative way. Working with young people in a series of arts-based workshops, we intervened in different environments to alter the space as an experience of change – temporal, material, and sym…
Urban revolution now. Henri Lefebvre in social research and architecture
Researching young people's orientations to the future: The Methodological Challenges of Using Arts Practice
Visual and arts-based methods are now widely used in the social sciences. In youth research they are considered to promote engagement and empowerment. This article contributes to debates on the challenges of using arts-based methods in research with young people. We discuss the experience of a multidisciplinary project investigating how young people imagine their futures - Imagine Sheppey - to critically consider the use of arts-based methods and…
Young people's orientations to the future: Navigating the present and imagining the future
This article discusses the findings of the Imagine Sheppey project (2013–2014) which studied how young people are ‘oriented’ towards the future. The aim and approach of the project were to explore future imaginaries in a participatory, experimental, and performative way. Working with young people in a series of arts-based workshops, we intervened in different environments to alter the space as an experience of change – temporal, material, and sym…
Researching young people's orientations to the future: The Methodological Challenges of Using Arts Practice
Visual and arts-based methods are now widely used in the social sciences. In youth research they are considered to promote engagement and empowerment. This article contributes to debates on the challenges of using arts-based methods in research with young people. We discuss the experience of a multidisciplinary project investigating how young people imagine their futures - Imagine Sheppey - to critically consider the use of arts-based methods and…
Habsburg coffeehouses in the shadow of the empire: Revisiting nostalgia in Trieste
This article reflects on Trieste's representation as 'the ghost of its Habsburg past' (Hametz, M. 2014. 'Presnitz in the Piazza: Habsburg Nostalgia in Trieste.' Journal of Austrian Studies 47 (2): 131-154. doi:10.1353/oas.2014.0029., 136) - a city that laments the irreversibility of time - to explore instead the ways in which nostalgic attachments to the empire have come under suspicion. Drawing on interviews, literary texts, and atmospheric data…
Love, activism, and the possibility of radical social change in Mostar
This article reflects on the meanings and possibilities of social change in Mostar, a city more often associated with the seeming impossibility of eradicating ethno-national divisions and corruption that paralyses it. It focuses on the under-researched politics of grassroots activism by drawing on Hardt’s and Negri’s work on the political potential of ‘love’ to shape and propel radical politics. Overall, the article reveals the lack of a cohesive…
Challenging the representation of ethnically divided cities: Perspectives from Mostar
In this introduction, we discuss the scope of the edited volume by outlining the position of Mostar within much broader academic debates on ‘ethnically divided cities’. We question the representations of such contested cities as hopeless spaces of division, and suggest to explore instead the cracks that challenge overpowering logics of partition: the self-directed attempts at inter-ethnic solidarity, grassroots movements for social justice and di…
Post-reconstruction enclosures: An infrastructural perspective on the post-conflict landscape of the Old City (Mostar)
This article looks at the landscape of the Old City of Mostar eighteen years after the reconstruction of its famous Old Bridge.The reconstruction project took place within broader international peace-building efforts, foregrounding the bridge as a symbol of multicultural reconciliation and initiating the development of tourism.We explore a landscape perspective to reflect on the aftermath of this neoliberal peacebuilding project which created a c…
Young people's orientations to the future: Navigating the present and imagining the future
This article discusses the findings of the Imagine Sheppey project (2013–2014) which studied how young people are ‘oriented’ towards the future. The aim and approach of the project were to explore future imaginaries in a participatory, experimental, and performative way. Working with young people in a series of arts-based workshops, we intervened in different environments to alter the space as an experience of change – temporal, material, and sym…
Urban revolution now. Henri Lefebvre in social research and architecture
Researching young people's orientations to the future: The Methodological Challenges of Using Arts Practice
Visual and arts-based methods are now widely used in the social sciences. In youth research they are considered to promote engagement and empowerment. This article contributes to debates on the challenges of using arts-based methods in research with young people. We discuss the experience of a multidisciplinary project investigating how young people imagine their futures - Imagine Sheppey - to critically consider the use of arts-based methods and…
The Divided City and the Grassroots: The (Un)making of Ethnic Divisions in Mostar
The Everyday Life of Mostar
Love, activism, and the possibility of radical social change in Mostar
This article reflects on the meanings and possibilities of social change in Mostar, a city more often associated with the seeming impossibility of eradicating ethno-national divisions and corruption that paralyses it. It focuses on the under-researched politics of grassroots activism by drawing on Hardt’s and Negri’s work on the political potential of ‘love’ to shape and propel radical politics. Overall, the article reveals the lack of a cohesive…
Challenging the representation of ethnically divided cities: Perspectives from Mostar
In this introduction, we discuss the scope of the edited volume by outlining the position of Mostar within much broader academic debates on ‘ethnically divided cities’. We question the representations of such contested cities as hopeless spaces of division, and suggest to explore instead the cracks that challenge overpowering logics of partition: the self-directed attempts at inter-ethnic solidarity, grassroots movements for social justice and di…
Habsburg coffeehouses in the shadow of the empire: Revisiting nostalgia in Trieste
This article reflects on Trieste's representation as 'the ghost of its Habsburg past' (Hametz, M. 2014. 'Presnitz in the Piazza: Habsburg Nostalgia in Trieste.' Journal of Austrian Studies 47 (2): 131-154. doi:10.1353/oas.2014.0029., 136) - a city that laments the irreversibility of time - to explore instead the ways in which nostalgic attachments to the empire have come under suspicion. Drawing on interviews, literary texts, and atmospheric data…
What’s off-centre of empire? Introduction to the special issue
In this Introduction, we discuss the aims of this publication along with guidelines to locate and connect the essays part of the edited volume. We start by highlighting the original contribution of our intervention in terms of what off-centring empire offers in relation to scholarship that de-centres empire. To us, this means to look at the processes, dynamics, and movements that connect empire (as a centre of power) to its peripheries (as a site…
The bench
Image-Maker in Residence: Care for Plants
Living with Houseplants: Pandemic diaries of more than human solidarities
Plants, Vegetables, Lawn: Radical Solidarities in Pandemic Times
This essay presents photos and words illustrating practices of care in homes shared by humans and plants during the COVID-19 pandemic. Drawing on interviews with plant carers, I highlight how humans (re)discovered plants as kin during forced social isolation. I reflect on how plants provided joy, hope, and reassurance during crisis, enabling strong affective bonds with their human carers. I read the creation/cementing of affective bonds between h…
Post-reconstruction enclosures: An infrastructural perspective on the post-conflict landscape of the Old City (Mostar)
This article looks at the landscape of the Old City of Mostar eighteen years after the reconstruction of its famous Old Bridge.The reconstruction project took place within broader international peace-building efforts, foregrounding the bridge as a symbol of multicultural reconciliation and initiating the development of tourism.We explore a landscape perspective to reflect on the aftermath of this neoliberal peacebuilding project which created a c…
Teaching with Plants as Liberatory Practice: Posthuman Pedagogies and The Sociological Imagination
This article discusses the design, teaching and student assessment developed for ‘More than Human Politics’, a third-year undergraduate module, which is currently about the environmental, social and political significance of plants. Drawing on feminist pedagogies aligned with new materialism and posthumanism, this article reports on experiments with plants in the classroom that cultivate modes of navigating climate (and other) crises while champi…
Making Home with Plants: Pandemic Edition
This article discusses the roles of houseplants in making home and building worlds. It draws on empirical data gathered by Care for Plants; a project started during the first Covid-19 lockdown in the UK to research why people embraced (or intensified) their care-work with plants. Starting from the observation that houseplants had taken a pivotal role in re-making everyday life under conditions of restricted mobility, reduced sociality, and increa…
Time with houseplants: A sociological analysis of temporalities, affective entanglements and practices of care
This article contributes to a sociology of time and rhythm as well as a sociology of human-plant relations. It argues that sociology should take an interest in houseplants because studying human-plant relations in the domestic sphere offers novel possibilities for exploring wider sociological themes such as multispecies interactions, intimacy and identity as well as time and everyday life. The article analyses houseplant care practices and their …
Sociology (13 works) · Political science (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Politics (8 works) · Art (6 works) · Aesthetics (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (4 works) · Visual arts (4 works)