Tilmann HEIL, social scientist
  • Overview
  • Research
    • Urban wood/s
    • Portarias
    • Urban alliances >
      • Narratives of Urban Conviviality-Inequality
    • Valued Difference >
      • The Setting
      • Comparison
      • Space of multiplicity
      • Status changes
    • Comparing Conviviality >
      • Key messages
      • Related publications
  • Publications
  • about
    • Events
    • Contact
  • News
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These pages present my research on how newcomers and others engage with each other in urban spaces around the globe, struggle with and value difference or compare convivialities - ways of living together. Knowledges from around the globe enter into conversation to understand hierarchies and challenge inequalities, contest what is taken for granted, forge consensuses, and celebrate life in its plurality.

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Urban wood/s

Urban inequality in a material world finds expression in living and dead wood, apparent in myriad urban forms: from signs to distinction, through urban greening, to precarious housing.
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Portarias

Entry halls and their employees in condominium blocks are living archives of urban knowledge on inequality, intimacy, and hospitality.
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Urban alliances

Building urban alliances along shared experiences but different social, political, and ethical reference frameworks accross world regions.

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Valued Difference

Assembling social hierarchies in Rio de Janeiro when newcomers from Africa and Europe arrive in the 21st century.
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Comparing Conviviality

Living with difference in Casamance (Senegal) and Catalonia (Spain). Changing the debate on "integration".
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Events

Find out where I will be speaking next, and where I have spoken and participated in the past.

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Publications

See, read, and download my publications.
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About me

I am Tilmann HEIL, a social scientist interested in inequality, urban change, migration, and conviviality.
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News

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  • Overview
  • Research
    • Urban wood/s
    • Portarias
    • Urban alliances >
      • Narratives of Urban Conviviality-Inequality
    • Valued Difference >
      • The Setting
      • Comparison
      • Space of multiplicity
      • Status changes
    • Comparing Conviviality >
      • Key messages
      • Related publications
  • Publications
  • about
    • Events
    • Contact
  • News