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Cristina Moretti is a sensory urban anthropologist whose research delves into how people inhabit and narrate the urban space in which they live. Her work in Italy focuses on the politics of public space and explores the multiple exclusion debates that arise in relation to local visual cultures and urban landscapes. In Vancouver, her research centers on urban change through the lens of sensory anthropology, seeking to understand the paradoxes that animate city transformations. Moretti’s current projects investigate the redevelopment of urban landscapes, including the interplay between construction, demolition, and community responses to such changes. She employs walking methodologies to foreground interlocutors' insights and enact knowledge. Her research spans topics such as ethnographic writing, multimodal anthropology, bureaucracy, migration, and memory, positioning her work at the intersection of anthropology, art, and urban studies. Moretti is also a co-founder and co-curator of the Centre for Imaginative Ethnography, which fosters multidisciplinary encounters and aims to advance conversations around new ethnographic writing and sensory storytelling.
Department of Philosophy