Articles and chapters

2026. “Of Cables and Threads: Reweaving the Urban Fabric at the Edge of Bogotá.” American Ethnologist 53:  283–295.

2025. “Retrofit: Aerial Cable Cars and the Reengineering of Urban Worlds.” Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 43(1): 8-28.

2023. “The Archaeology of Decay: Ruinous Knowledge and the Violence of Urban Planning.” American Anthropologist 125(3): 505-518.

2020. “‘The Miracle of Density’: The Socio-material Epistemics of Urban Densification.” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 44(4): 617-635.

2020. “Materializing (In)securities: Urban Terrain, Paperwork, and Housing in Downtown Bogotá.” Anthropological Quarterly 93(1): 1491-1522.

2020. “An Anatomy of Failure: Planning After the Fact in Contemporary Bogotá.” In Life Among Urban Planners: Practices, Professionalism, and Expertise in the Making of the City. J. Mack and M. Herzfeld, eds. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press.

2016. “Excavating Legal Landscapes: Juridical Archaeology and the Politics of Bureaucratic Materiality in Bogotá, Colombia.” Cultural Anthropology 31(2): 215-243.*

*Reprinted as “Excavando paisajes legales: la arqueología jurídica y la política de la materialidad burocrática.” Translated by Claudia Abello and Federico Pérez Fernández. In Etnografías burocráticas: una nueva mirada a la construcción del estado en Colombia. I. Jaramillo Sierra and L. Buchely Ibarra, eds. Bogotá: Ediciones Uniandes.

2015.  “La Renovación Urbana en Contexto [Urban Renewal in Context].” In De la Renovación a la Revitalización: Desafíos para Bogotá [From Renewal to Revitalization: Challenges for Bogotá]. Bogotá: Alcaldía Mayor de Bogotá y Secretaría Distrital de Planeación.

2010.  “Laboratorios de Reconstrucción Urbana: Hacia una Antropología de la Política Urbana en Colombia [Laboratories of Urban Reconstruction: Toward an Anthropology of Urban Policy in Colombia].” Antípoda No.10 (Antropología de la Política Pública), Enero – Junio 2010: 51-84.

Reviews and essays

2025. A Tyranny Against Itself: Intimate Partner Violence in the Margins of Bogotá by  John I. B. Bhadra-Heintz, University of Pennsylvania Press. American Anthropologist 127: 915-916.

2020. For the War Yet to Come by Hiba Bou Akar, Stanford University Press. Society and Space Book Forum.

2020. “Bogotá’s Urban Development Conflicts: Insecurity & Memory in the City.” Items: Insights from the Social Sciences (Layered Metropolis Series), Social Science Research Council, Online Publication.

2016. Endangered City: the politics of security and risk in Bogotá by Austin Zeiderman, Duke University Press. Anthropological Quarterly, 89(4): 1227-1237. 

2015. “Post-Conflict Urbanism and The Logics of Warfare In Colombia.” Fieldsights – Hot Spots, Cultural Anthropology, April 30, 2015.

2013. “Peopling Space: Contemporary Redevelopment in Bogotá.” openDemocracy (Cities in Conflict), 4 March 2013.

2012. “Bogotá: Up Against the City.” The Caravan: A Journal of Politics and Culture. October 2012.