New Publications by Prof. Dr. Anna Lisa Ramella: "Ethnography in Outer Space" and "How media shape mobilities and vice versa"
2026-08-24
Ethnography in Outer Space
The publication Ethnography beyond Earth: Coloniality, Outer Space, and Anthropological Imagination by Prof. Dr. Anna Lisa Ramella together with Dr. Hanna Nieber (Halle), Dr. Anton Nikolotov (Paris) and Prof. Dr. Alana Osbourne (Nijmegen) examines the everyday social and political effects of renewed space faring ambitions, including the displacement of communities, the speculative capitalization of unmaterialized futures, and the reproduction of geopolitical hierarchies through celestial imaginaries. The article is based on a panel organised by the four authors at the annual congress of the World Anthropological Union (WAU).
It is available online on AllegraLab – Anthropology for Radical Optimism.
How media shape mobilities and vice versa
For the recently published book Mediengeographie: Handbuch für Wissenschaft und Studium (“Media Geography: A Handbook for Research and Study”, edited by Prof. Dr Tristan Thielmann and Dr Max Kanderske), Prof. Dr Anna Lisa Ramella was invited, together with Prof. Dr Roger Norum (Oulu), to write a chapter on mobile geography. The book includes contributions from Bruno Latour, Caren Kaplan, Tim Ingold and Sarah Pink, amongst others.
The article Mobile Geography proposes a systematic typology of media – ranging from transit, infrastructure and transport media to transmission and orientation media – in order to explore their functions within mobile geographies, as well as the inherent interconnections between media and mobility studies.
The book is published by Nomos.