I’m much looking forward to deliver a guest lecture at ETH Zurich this coming Monday on informal housing, criminal actors and urban extractivism in Colombia!

Thank you David Kostenwein, Daniela Sanjinés Encinales & Jennifer Duyne Barenstein for the invitation.

We had a most insightful workshop last week in Geneva, discussing the intersection between housing struggles and "illegality". Thanks to my co-organizer Guillaume Dumont, our discussants @hanna-hilbrandt.bsky.social, Matthew Richmond, Miguel Martínez, Martijn Koster & the @gvagrad-ccdp.bsky.social!

Profundamente inspirador participar en este encuentro en Medellín la semana pasada junto a tantos queridos colegas!

Para saber más sobre nuestro Colectivo Juvenicidio y Resistencias Sociales (JUVIR) 👉 www.upf.edu/web/juvenici...

Hello Montreal! So glad to be joining @sasemeeting.bsky.social 2025 as part of a panel series on illegal markets organized by Matias Dewey & Gabriel Feltran! #SASE2025

📍 Curious about my recent research on informal housing, migration, and gangs in one of Latin America's largest informal settlements?

📆 Join us TODAY at 3.30 CET for a seminar co-hosted by
@gvagrad-ccdp.bsky.social & @gvagrad.bsky.social - in person & online!

🔜 Info: shorturl.at/BwFDk

Join us this Thursday at the Université de Genève for a discussion of my recent research on gang-controlled informal housing markets and urban extractivism in Colombia!

💬 Discussed by Armelle Choplin
📍 Thursday 8 May 2025 - 12h30-13h30
🏫 Uni Mail, salle M 4020

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I'm excited to share that I’ve recently signed a book contract with NYU Press @nyupress.bsky.social !

The book brings together a decade of doctoral & post-doctoral ethnographic work on adolescentes involved at the bottom of the organized crime hierarchy in contemporary urban Colombia. Stay tuned!

📻 Ayer salimos en Radio UNAL con un conversatorio sobre la migración Venezolana en Medellín!

Puedes escuchar aquí 👉 radio.unal.edu.co/detalle/la-m...

📍Curious about my recent research on informal housing, migration, and gangs in one of Latin America's largest self-built settlements?

📅 Mark your calendar for my upcoming seminar at @gvagrad-ccdp.bsky.social on May 15 - in person & online!

🔜Info shorturl.at/4uc2k

El próximo miércoles, yo y Lirio Gutiérrez (UNAL Medellín), estaremos facilitando una mesa redonda sobre la migración venezolana en la ciudad.Tendremos ponentes de las instituciones y sociedad civil. Participación abierta!
📅 26 Febrero 2025
🏫 UNAL Medellín

📚 News! With Guillaume Dumont we are organizing a Paper Development Workshop on 'Housing, Illegality and Criminal Actors' at the Geneva Graduate Institute on 9-10 September 2025.

➡️ To apply, please send us a 500 word abstract & a short bio by March 31st.

👉 Full CfP at rb.gy/dzk23x

📚 First Open Access Paper of 2025!

🔎 In this paper, I critically reflect on my use of participatory research methods in youth research.

🙌 Thanks Carles Feixa & Nele Hansen for coordinating this wonderful Social Sciences special issue!

➡️Link surl.li/ityokl

Yesterday at the IHEID we had a timely & honest discussion on the complexities of contemporary ethnography. For more, check my chapter on the subjective dimensions of ethics & safety, published in Inclusive Ethnography (SAGE 2024) edited by amazing C. Procter & B. Spector 📚

Next Tuesday we close the year together with my brilliant colleague and friend Caitlin Procter talking of ethics, safety & (mental) health in ethnographic fieldwork. Join us for a timely conversation at the Geneva Graduate Institute Anthropology and Sociology Department!

Second roundtable: juvenicidio & resistencias. Featuring Rayen Rovira, Salvador Cruz, Candy Chevez, Wilson Agudelo, German Muñoz, Elena Butti

@wennergrenorg.bsky.social @UPFBarcelona @JOVIS

First roundtable of our conference on juvenicide. Featuring Jose Manuel Valenzuela, Alexandra Agudelo, Marisa Fefferman, Andrea Bonvillani, Alfredo Nateras, Carles Feixa. Thanks @wennergrenorg.bsky.social for promoting great ideas in anthropology!

Tired but satisfied after the intensive workshop on 'juvenicide' we organized with funding of
@wennergrenorg.bsky.social. Tomorrow's session is public - you can still register at shorturl.at/vrsf2