Julian Brigstocke
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Julian Brigstocke
@jbrigstocke.bsky.social
Geographer at Cardiff University. 'Non-authoritarian authority'; politics of aesthetics; social, cultural and political theory; cities; materialisms. Lover of plants, piano, cello, walking. Father of two small boys.
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July 18, 2025 at 11:20 AM
I have a chapter in the book on Cities and the Sixth Sense: The Aesthetics of Experimental Urbanism. The chapter looks at experimental architecture/urbanism projects on the US/Mexico border through the lens of Hannah Arendt’s politics of aesthetics. www.routledge.com/Aesthetics-a... #geosky
Aesthetics and the City
Aesthetics and the City engages aesthetics to explore the role of the city in urban experience. Drawing on diverse theories and global case studies, this edited collection examines how aesthetics rela...
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July 18, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Reposted by Julian Brigstocke
Research Fellow @jbrigstocke.bsky.social explores how communities in Brazil’s favelas establish forms of everyday community authority in response to the authoritarian violence of police and criminal groups. www.flipsnack.com/leverhulmetr... @cardiffuni.bsky.social
May 27, 2025 at 9:36 AM
The projecrt aims to map and analyse the diversity of authorities that help to coordinate and maintain social life, and challenge dominant power structures, in a context of chronic violence. I will identify, analyse, and relate the many forms of community authority that enable residents to survive.
May 23, 2025 at 10:23 AM