# Overview of Tilmann Heil's research

> Given that Valued Difference creates multiple urban hierarchies, Tilmann Heil ethnographically inquires into the ways new urban dwellers of Rio de Janeiro understand the unequal urban fabric and situate themselves within it.

## Pages
- [A transnational consequence: the significance of emic comparison](https://www.tilmann.me/rjcomparison)
- [about](https://www.tilmann.me/about)
- [Comparing Conviviality](https://www.tilmann.me/comparing-conviviality): In a world where difference is often seen as a threat or challenge, Comparing Conviviality explores how people actually live in diverse societies. Based on a long-term ethnography of West Africans in both Senegal and Spain, the book proposes that convivia
- [Contact](https://www.tilmann.me/contact)
- [Educating](https://www.tilmann.me/educating)
- [Events](https://www.tilmann.me/events)
- [Moving through status changes](https://www.tilmann.me/rjstatus)
- [News](https://www.tilmann.me/news)
- [Overview of Tilmann Heil's research](https://www.tilmann.me/)
- [Portarias](https://www.tilmann.me/portarias)
- [Publications](https://www.tilmann.me/publications)
- [Resarch Projects](https://www.tilmann.me/research)
- [The city as a space of multiplicity](https://www.tilmann.me/rjmultiplicity)
- [Urban alliances](https://www.tilmann.me/urban-alliances)
- [Urban Narratives Fellowship](https://www.tilmann.me/unf): New Fellowship for Collaborative Research in Urban Studies
- [Urban wood/s](https://www.tilmann.me/urban-woods)
- [Valued Difference](https://www.tilmann.me/valued-difference): Assembling social hierarchies in Rio de Janeiro when newcomers from Africa and Europe arrive in the 21st century.

## Blog Posts
- [Un/ValueD in politics.](https://www.tilmann.me/p/unvalued-in-politics)
- [Problematizing Morality](https://www.tilmann.me/p/problematizing-morality)
- [​Muslim – Queer encounters in Rio de Janeiro. Making sense of relative positionalities](https://www.tilmann.me/p/muslim-queer-encounters-in-rio-de-janeiro-making-sense-of-relative-positionalities)
- [Conviviality on the brink](https://www.tilmann.me/p/conviviality-on-the-brink)
- [Comparing Conviviality - in print](https://www.tilmann.me/p/comparing-conviviality-in-print)
- [Conviviality as diasporic knowledge](https://www.tilmann.me/p/conviviality-as-diasporic-knowledge)
- [Deromanticising integration. On the importance of convivial disintegration](https://www.tilmann.me/p/deromanticising-integration-on-the-importance-of-convivial-disintegration)
- [Apresentação e debate do livro em lançamento](https://www.tilmann.me/p/apresentacao-e-debate-do-livro-em-lancamento)
- [Discussing Southern knowledge of conviviality in Rio de Janeiro](https://www.tilmann.me/p/discussing-southern-knowledge-of-conviviality-in-rio-de-janeiro)
- [Post/colonial reconfigurations. The disregarded, renewed arrival of Spaniards in Rio de Janeiro](https://www.tilmann.me/p/postcolonial-reconfigurations-the-disregarded-renewed-arrival-of-spaniards-in-rio-de-janeiro)
- [Interweaving the fabric of urban infrastructure. Senegalese City-Making in Rio de Janeiro](https://www.tilmann.me/p/interweaving-the-fabric-of-urban-infrastructure-senegalese-city-making-in-rio-de-janeiro)
- [Changing the debate on migration](https://www.tilmann.me/p/changing-the-debate-on-migration)
- [CfP: Emerging Urban Political Subjectivities: Synergies, Tensions, Contradictions, and Transformations in Pluralizing Cities (Panel 88)](https://www.tilmann.me/p/cfp-emerging-urban-political-subjectivities-synergies-tensions-contradictions-and-transformations-in-pluralizing-cities-panel-88)
- [The birth of a concept](https://www.tilmann.me/p/the-birth-of-a-concept)
- [Researching with Difference](https://www.tilmann.me/p/researching-with-difference)
- [Continuously shaping horizontal global collaboration](https://www.tilmann.me/p/continuously-shaping-horizontal-global-collaboration)
- [VII International Symposium on the history and Culture of Brazil](https://www.tilmann.me/p/vii-international-symposium-on-the-history-and-culture-of-brazil)
- [Aproximar-se às diferenças urbanas valorizadas a partir do imagético](https://www.tilmann.me/p/aproximar-se-as-diferencas-urbanas-valorizadas-a-partir-do-imagetico)
- [Just published -- Interweaving the fabric of urban infrastructure. Senegalese City-Making in Rio de Janeiro](https://www.tilmann.me/p/just-published-interweaving-the-fabric-of-urban-infrastructure-senegalese-city-making-in-rio-de-janeiro)
- [Honoured: Hommage à la Casa de Rui Barbosa](https://www.tilmann.me/p/honoured-hommage-a-la-casa-de-rui-barbosa)
- [Cfp: Panel "Latin America under the Conviviality-Inequality lens" - Deadline 30 November 2021](https://www.tilmann.me/p/cfp-panel-latin-america-under-the-conviviality-inequality-lens-deadline-30-november-2021)
- [Assembling social hierarchies. Newcomers' urban Journeys in Rio de Janeiro](https://www.tilmann.me/p/assembling-social-hierarchies-newcomers-urban-journeys-in-rio-de-janeiro)
- [Heteromelancolia no Rio de Janeiro](https://www.tilmann.me/p/heteromelancolia-no-rio-de-janeiro)
- [Normative multiplicity (CLACSO, 2024)](https://www.tilmann.me/p/normative-multiplicity-clacso-2024)
- [About doorman and what they don't say](https://www.tilmann.me/p/about-doorman-and-what-they-dont-say)
- [Habilitation / Livre docente](https://www.tilmann.me/p/habilitation-livre-docente)
- [Techno-material entanglements and the social organisation of difference](https://www.tilmann.me/p/techno-material-entanglements-and-the-social-organisation-of-difference)
- [FocaalBlog: Care, cordiality, and control. Multisensorial Encounters with More-than-Security in Urban Brazil](https://www.tilmann.me/p/focaalblog-care-cordiality-control)
- [Repertoires of hierarchy, inequality, and desire](https://www.tilmann.me/p/repertoires-of-hierarchy)
- [Afinando as diferenças na chegada à cidade](https://www.tilmann.me/p/afinando-as-diferencas): Repertórios sensoriais de migrantes internacionais no Rio de Janeiro
- [Gender und Sexualität](https://www.tilmann.me/p/gender-und-sexualitat)
- [Sociopolitical dialogues on urban convivialities](https://www.tilmann.me/p/sociopolitical-dialogues)
- [Drawing as concept](https://www.tilmann.me/p/drawing-as-concept)