Rebekah Plueckhahn

Rebekah Plueckhahn is an anthropologist who examines the lived experiences of urban transformation and expansion. She has published on anthropologies of environmental stigma, capitalism and infrastructural inequalities, the politics of heat production, cynicism, urban relations of power and dynamic ownership within sites of urban transformation. Primarily drawing from ethnographic research conducted in Mongolia, this research examines the socialities, relationships, moralities and ethics that emerge through urban inhabitation. Rebekah has published in Cultural Anthropology, Urban Studies, and Transactions. Her first book Shaping Urban Futures in Mongolia – Ulaanbaatar, Dynamic Ownership and Economic Flux was published with UCL Press (2020). She is a lecturer in anthropology at the University of Melbourne.

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Curation

Theorizing the Contemporary

Curation

This piece focuses on how curation (as opposed to repair and maintenance) characterizes the ways in which residential groups navigate states of incompletion (Gu... More

Rethinking the Anticommons: Usufruct, Profit, and the Urban

Theorizing the Contemporary

Rethinking the Anticommons: Usufruct, Profit, and the Urban

The lens of usufruct is a productive way through which to anthropologically examine experiences of fast rates of urban growth. Within cities, temporary access t... More