Ramiro Segura is an anthropologist from National University of La Plata (UNLP) and holds a PhD in Social Sciences from National University of General Sarmiento (UNGS). During 2012/2103 he was a postdoctoral researcher at Freie Universität Berlin (FU) and during 2017 he was visiting researcher at Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS), Watson Institute for International and Publics Affairs, Brown University. Currently he is Independent Researcher of the National Council for Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET) at the Interdisciplinary School of Higher Social Studies, National University of San Martín (IDEAS/UNSAM) where he is Professor of Social Urban Studies. He also is Professor at National University of La Plata where he teaches Social Theory and Cultural Studies. He is Associated Investigator of The Maria Sibylla Merian Centre Latin America (MECILA).

• Latin American urbanisms
• Social Inequalities
• Urban fragmentation and mobilities
• Conviviality in unequal contexts

2023. The (Un)made City: Spatial Fragmentation, Social Inequalities and (De)compositions of Urban Life, in: Carrión, F. and Cepeda, P. (Eds.) Urbicide: The Death of the City. Springer, pp. 359-376.

2021. Protective Arrangements across Class: Understanding Social Segregation in La Plata, Argentina, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 45(6): 1064-1072.

2021. Las ciudades y las teorías. Estudios sociales urbanos. San Martín: UNSAM Edita (book).

2020. In search of conviviality in Latin American cities. An essay from urban anthropology, in: Scarato, L., Baldraia, F. and Manzi, M. (Eds.). Convivial Constellations in Latin American. From Colonial to Contemporary Times. New York, Routledge, pp. 54-68.

2018. Ways of Dwelling: Location, Daily Mobility and Segregated Circuits in the Urban Experience of the Modern Landscape of La Plata, in: Freire-Medeiros, B. and O’Donnell, J. (Eds.). Urban Latin America: Images, Words, Flows and the Built Environment. New York, Routledge, pp. 156-172.

2018. The urban space and the (re)production of social inequalities: decoupling   income distribution and patterns of urbanization in Latin American cities”, in: Jelin, E., Campos Motta, R., and Costa, Sergio (Eds.) Global Entangled Inequalities. Conceptual Debates and Evidence from Latin America. New York, Routledge, pp. 59-75.

2017. The Uses of Informality: Urban Development and Social Distinction in México City, Latin American Perspectives, 44(214): 158-175 (co-authored with Frank Müller).

2016. Space, Urban Borders and Political Imagination in Buenos Aires, Latin American & Caribbean Ethnic Studies, 11 (1): 25-45 (co-authored with Alejandro Grimson).

2015. Vivir afuera. Antropología de la experiencia urbana. San Martín: UNSAM Edita (book)