Brais Estévez

brais.estevez@cchs.csisc.es

Geographer from the University of Santiago de Compostela (USC) and PhD in Geography from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), awarded the Extraordinary Doctoral Prize. His work lies at the intersection of urban geography, Science and Technology Studies (STS) and psychoanalytic theory. He is interested in ethnographic inquiry, forms of epistemic collaboration and, above all, the question of how to live together in urbanised worlds mediated by infrastructures, materialities, desires and multiple—often contradictory—forms of knowledge. He is currently a visiting researcher at the Institute of Philosophy of the Centre for Human and Social Sciences (CCHS-CSIC), where he develops the project Towards Terrestrial Habitability: Grounding Collective Facilities in the New Climate Regime. He also teaches the course Environmental Challenges on the Master’s Degree in Philosophy for Contemporary Challenges at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya. He has published in leading journals and with international academic publishers such as International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Social Movement Studies, Radical Housing Journal ou Scripta Nova, editors as Routledge, Springer, Icaria, Tirant lo Blanch or Bartlebooth as well as in public-facing media such as: Ankulegi, Clara Corbelhe ou Praza Pública.