Graduado Bacharel em Ciências Sociais pela Universidade Federal de São Carlos (2009), e Mestre em Sociologia pela UFSCar (2012), onde participa de pesquisas desenvolvidas no Laboratório de Estudos sobre Trabalho, Profissões e Mobilidades (LEST). Doutor em Sociologia (2016) pela Goldsmiths College, University of London. Foi Professor Associado (Associate Lecturer) no departamento de Sociologia da Goldsmiths College, University of London, por três anos (2015-2018). Atualmente, é Professor do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Sociologia da Universidade Federal de São Carlos (PPGS-UFSCar), e Research Associate na School of Sociology, Politics & International Studies, University of Bristol. Coordena o Grupo ‘Control, Conflict and Resistence’, no Instituto ‘Migration, Mobilities Bristol (MMB)’. Editor do material online das revistas Theory, Culture & Society e Body & Society; e editor regional da newsletter Global Dialogue – International Sociological Association (ISA).
Áreas de atuação: Mobilidades, Migrações, Trabalho, Redes Sociais, Informalidades, Distinção, Diferenciação Social e Racialização.
Grupos de pesquisa: LEST – Laboratório de Estudos sobre Trabalho, Profissões e Mobilidades ; Control, Conflict and Resistence’ – ‘Migration, Mobilities Bristol Research Institute (MMB)
Projetos em Andamento:
Modern Marronage? : the pursuit and practice of freedom in the contemporary world
Contemporary antislavery campaigners invoke the history of Atlantic World slavery to highlight the plight of 48 million people today living in exceptionally harsh circumstances, described as ‘modern slavery’. Yet in a world where many are oppressed and exploited, the lines between ‘modern slavery’ and other forms of drudgery, exclusion, and domination, are not easily drawn. Critics argue that the dominant discourse of ‘modern slavery’ relies upon a highly selective vision of injustice and suffering, and fails to consider or challenge the structural inequalities and systems of domination (race, caste, class, gender, age, nationality) that routinely restrict rights and freedoms. The proposed project retains a concern with the continuing significance of Atlantic World history, but upturns conventional discourse by interrogating the problem of freedom – as opposed to slavery – in the contemporary world. Through fieldwork in Brazil, Ghana, Italy, Portugal and the UK with groups that appear in dominant discourse as at risk of ‘modern slavery’, its key aims are: i) to revisit histories of marronage and other strategies by which enslaved and newly emancipated people sought to move closer to freedom in the Atlantic World historically, and ask what light they can shed on the perception, pursuit and practice of freedom by marginalized and rightless people in the Atlantic World today; ii) to use insights from this dialogue between past and present to contribute to theoretical debates on freedom, and its relation to agency, honour, gender, age, race, mobility, property, and personhood; iii) to work with research participants to co-produce counter-narratives to conventional antislavery stories of ‘modern slavery’, and, by communicating them through performance as well as text, encourage more nuanced popular and political debate on the contemporary meaning and practice of freedom.
Financiamento: European Research Council (ERC)
Negotiating multiple risks: health, safety and well-being among sex workers in Brazil in times of Covid 19
Many sex workers in Brazil face multiple forms of exclusion and risks to health and well-being, including low and sporadic earnings, violence, and STDs. Interventions into sex workers? lives to address the Covid-19 pandemic are potentially heightening their precarity without effectively protecting them from illness. This social science, arts and public health collaboration builds on our NGO partner?s efforts to inform sex workers about safer working practices. Using innovative participatory research methods, it advances knowledge and understanding of the specific risks encountered by sex workers in their daily lives during the pandemic, and the obstacles they face when navigating a pathway between multiple threats. Research participants and the research/creative team will co-produce photo essays and a magazine that will educate policy makers and NGOs on the barriers to enacting safer health practices and inform sex workers about strategies to mitigate risks.
Situação: Em andamento; Natureza: Pesquisa.
Financiamento: Elizabeth Blackwell Institute – UK