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University of Fribourg: Fribourg, Freiburg, CH

2022 to present | Assistant Professor (Department of Social Sciences, Social Anthropology Unit)
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Madlen Kobi

Funding (1)

Urban Bricolage. Mining Designing and Constructing With Reused Building Materials

2022 to 2026 | Grant
Swiss National Science Foundation (Bern, CH)
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Madlen Kobi

Works (36)

Urban energy landscape in practice: Architecture, infrastructure and the material culture of cooling in post-reform Chongqing, China

Urban Studies
2024-11 | Journal article
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Building Shanghai in the borderlands: a visual approach to the restructuring of the Uyghur City in Xinjiang

Visual Studies
2024-01-02 | Journal article
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Tasting Ethnic Politics Along Roadsides

Online Exhibition "Asphalt: Lives and Lines"
2023 | Interactive resource | Writing - original draft
Contributors: Madlen Kobi
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The Concrete Plateau: Urban Tibetans and the Chinese Civilizing Machine, written by Andrew Grant

Inner Asia
2023-05-02 | Journal article
Contributors: Madlen Kobi
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Chongqing (People’s Republic of China). The Electrification of the Urban Fabric. On Governing the Built Environment’s Seasonality

Coping with Urban Climates. Comparative Perspectives on Architecture and Thermal Governance
2022 | Book chapter | Writing - original draft
Contributors: Madlen Kobi
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The Biopolitics of Thermal Governance: Energy Infrastructure and State-Citizen Relationships in Chongqing

Urban Infrastructure. Historical and Social Dimensions of an Interconnected World.
2022 | Book chapter | Writing - original draft
Contributors: Madlen Kobi
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Coping with Urban Climates (with S. Roesler and L. Stieger)

De Gruyter
2022-06-07 | Book
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Sensing the Cold: Biopolitics of Heating Infrastructures in Chongqing (China) (with Katja Jug)

Roadsides
2021-11 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 2624-9081
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Architecture as/and Infrastructure

Allegra Lab
2020 | Interactive resource
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Ode to the ‘Little Sun’: Everyday Thermal Practice and Energy Infrastructure in Chongqing (China)

IIAS Newsletter #86
2020 | Magazine article
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Walks in Huangjueping (Chongqing, China). Encounters with Warming Objects and Ventilation Heritage

Contribution to the Project "Walks to Remember During a Pandemic. 'With Memory I was There'" by Louise Ann Wilson
2020 | Website
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Book review: Urban Energy Landscapes

Urban Studies
2020-09 | Journal article
Contributors: Madlen Kobi
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Introduction: Architecture and Urban Infrastructure Landscapes (with Nadine Plachta)

Roadsides
2020-09 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 2624-9081
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Urban Climate Indoors: Rethinking Heating Infrastructure in China's Non-Heating Zone (with Sascha Roesler)

ABE Journal
2020-09-02 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 2275-6639
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Warm bodies in the Chinese borderlands: architecture, thermal infrastructure, and territorialization in the arid continental climate of Ürümchi, Xinjiang

Eurasian Geography and Economics
2020-01-02 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1538-7216
Part of ISSN: 1938-2863
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Madlen Kobi

Chinesische Wege des Bauschutts: Sozialanthropologische Perspektiven auf das Recycling von Baumaterialien im urbanen China

In: Grimberg, Phillip and Grete Schönebeck (Eds.). Vom Wesen der Dinge. Realitäten und Konzeptionen des Materiellen in der chinesischen Kultur. In Zusammenarbeit mit Rüdiger Breuer. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 173-195.
2019 | Book chapter
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The Open Cut. Mining, Transnational Corporations and the Commons (with Thomas Niederberger and Tobias Haller)

Commons in a Glocal World. Global Connections and Local Responses (edited by T. Haller, T. Breu, C. Rohr, H. Znoj and S. Rist, Abingdon: Routledge)
2019 | Book chapter
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Contours of an urban architectural anthropology: built environment, climate control and socio‐material practices in winter in Chongqing (south‐west China)

Social Anthropology
2019-11-27 | Journal article
Contributors: Madlen Kobi
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Keeping Warm in Subtropical Winter. When Everyday Life Disrupts the Concept of Hyper-Conditioned Environments in Chongqing (Southwest China)

Cahiers de la recherche architecturale, urbaine et paysagère
2019-11-27 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 2606-7498
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Constructing Cityscapes: Locality, Materiality and Territoriality on the Urban Construction Site in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, Northwest China

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research
2019-01 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0309-1317
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Microclimates and the City. Towards an Architectural Theory of Thermal Diversity (with Sascha Roesler)

The Urban Microclimate as Artifact. Towards an Architectural Theory of Thermal Diversity
2018 | Book chapter
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The Rise of Xinjiang Studies (with Rian Thum, Justin Jacobs, Tom Cliff, David Brophy, Kwangmin Kim)

The Journal of Asian Studies
2018 | Journal article
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The Urban Microclimate as Artifact. Towards an Architectural Theory of Thermal Diversity (co-edited with Sascha Roesler)

Basel: Birkhäuser
2018 | Edited book
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Thermal Layers. The Case of the Lycée Schorge in Koudougou (Burkina Faso). Francis Kéré in Conversation with Madlen Kobi

The Urban Microclimate as Artifact. Towards an Architectural Theory of Thermal Diversity.
2018 | Book chapter
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Madlen Kobi

Building transregional and historical connections: Uyghur architecture in urban Xinjiang

Central Asian Survey
2018-04-03 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0263-4937
Part of ISSN: 1465-3354
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Book Review “Inside Xinjiang. Space, Place and Power in China’s Muslim Far Northwest” (edited by Anna Hayes and Michael Clarke, 2016, Routledge)

Asiatische Studien 71(3): 1029-1037
2017 | Book review
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Book Review: From Village to City.Social Transformation in a Chinese County Seat (Andrew Kipnis, 2016, University of California Press)

New Books Asia
2017 | Book review
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"Snapshots of Change” – How Focusing on Change Affects Perspectives on Research Material (with Thiruni Kelegama)

AllegraLab
2016 | Journal article
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Constructing, Creating, and Contesting Cityscapes. A Socio-Anthropological Approach to Urban Transformation in Southern Xinjiang, People’s Republic of China.

Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz (Book Series: Alltagskulturen Chinas und seiner Nachbarn, edited by Mareile Flitsch)
2016 | Book
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Framing Mineral and Metal Resources as “Glocal Commons” (with Thomas Niederberger)

The Commons Digest
2016 | Magazine article
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Introduction: Legal Frameworks and Regulations in the Mining Industry (with Helen Gambon)

The Open Cut – Mining, Transnational Corporations, and Local Populations (edited by Niederberger et al., Zürich: LIT)
2016 | Book chapter
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Nothing is permanent (with Thiruni Kelegama)

Universität Zürich
2016 | Journal article
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The Open Cut – Mining, Transnational Corporations, and Local Populations (co-edited with Thomas Niederberger, Tobias Haller, Helen Gambon, Madlen Kobi, and Irina Wenk)

Zürich: LIT (Action Anthropology Volume II)
2016 | Edited book
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Welche Altstadt und für wen? Urbane Transformation, soziale Stratifizierung und ethnische Repräsentationen in Kaxgar (China)

TSANTSA (Dossier „Öffentliche Räume, Zusammenleben und Marginalisierung“)
2016 | Journal article
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Physical and Social Spaces ‘Under Construction’. Spatial and Ethnic Belonging in New Residential Compounds in Aksu, Southern Xinjiang

Inner Asia
2016-05-05 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1464-8172
Part of ISSN: 2210-5018
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Stadtraum im Wandel. Urbanisierung, Altstadterneuerung und ethnische Segregation im Uigurisch Autonomen Gebiet Xinjiang, Volksrepublik China

TSANTSA
2013 | Journal article
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Peer review (1 review for 1 publication/grant)

Review activity for Geoforum. (1)