Madlen Kobi

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Prof. Dr. Madlen Kobi

University of Fribourg
Department of Social Sciences
Social Anthropology Unit
Bd. de Pérolles 90
CH-1700 Fribourg

Website: https://www.unifr.ch/anthropos/de/einheit/team/people/350170/5c040
ORCID-iD: ORCID logo https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6644-4083
Position / Tätigkeit:

Assistant Professor

Forschungs- und Interessengebiete:
  • Urban Anthropology and Political Ecology
  • Architecture
  • Circular Economy
  • Waste Studies
  • Material Culture
  • Infrastructure
  • China
wichtigste Veröffentlichungen:

Constructing, Creating, and Contesting Cityscapes. A Socio-Anthropological Approach to Urban Transformation in Southern Xinjiang, People’s Republic of China, Wiesbaden 2016

Contours of an Urban Architectural Anthropology: Built Environment, Climate Control and Socio-Material Practices in Winter in Chongqing (Southwest China), in: Social Anthropology 27 (2019), pp. 689-704

(ed., with Nadine Plachta) Roadsides 4 (2020): Architecture and/as Infrastructure

(ed., with Sascha Roesler and Lorenzo Stieger) Coping with Urban Climates. Comparative Perspectives on Architecture and Thermal Governance, Basel 2022

Urban Energy Landscape in Practice: Architecture, Infrastructure and the Material Culture of Cooling in Post-Reform Chongqing, China, in: Urban Studies 61 (2024), pp. 2979-2994

(with Dennis Zuev) The Spectacle of the Chinese City: Urban Atmospheres, the Built Environment and Everyday Practices, in: Visual Studies 39 (2024), pp. 8-23