Raúl Acosta is an anthropologist at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology of the Goethe University Frankfurt in Germany. He obtained his doctorate at the University of Oxford. He is author of Civil Becomings: Performative Politics in the Amazon and the Mediterranean (The University of Alabama Press, 2020), along with several articles and book chapters. His research interests are novel forms of political engagement, environmental governance, urban anthropology and sociocultural diversity.