Professor of the Postgraduate Program in Sociology and visiting researcher at the Department of Sociology at UFSCar. PhD in Sociology from UFSCar (2019), with a doctoral internship at Goldsmiths College – University of London and the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers (CNAM – Paris). Post-Doctorate from PPGS UFSCar (2020-2021) and from the Institute of Architecture and Urbanism of the University of São Paulo – IAU/USP (2021-2022). He was a visiting scholar at the Center for Latin American Studies at the University of Chicago (2022-2023). He works at the interface between sociology of work and urban studies, with an emphasis on debates about popular economies, urban illegalism and informalities.
Areas of Research: Sociology of Work; Urban Sociology; Popular Economies; Informalities.
Research Group: Laboratory for Studies on Work, Professions and Mobilities (LEST-M). https://www.lestm.ufscar.br/
Research Project(s) in Progress:
Weaving markets: a journey through informal clothing circuits and the business management of popular markets
Abstract: This project, developed within the scope of FAPESP’s PNGP program, aims to explore, describe and analyze the links between the informal circuits of production and commerce that constitute popular urban markets and the contemporary modes of business management in these economies. It is observed that the activities that objectively maintain business modernization projects in popular markets, increasingly objects of ambitious infrastructure reorganization projects and formalization policies via entrepreneurship, remain supported by broad production chains and informal circulation networks. We will then seek to circumvent interpretations about informality and illegalism that permeate popular economic practices as contradictory to projects of formalization, modernization and the development of productive activities and territories. Empirically, the research will focus on the productive and commercial circuits that connect informal production and popular commerce markets in two Brazilian regions: the Brás district, in the center of São Paulo, and the city of Toritama, which emerges prominently in the center of clothing in Agreste Pernambucano. By ethnographically following work practices and the mobility of people and goods from the daily life of informal productive units to the routine of commerce in galleries and popular shopping malls in Brás and Toritama – and, especially, pursuing the mobilities of people and goods between these territories -, we intend to explore the concrete modes of transit between informal and formal activities, as well as the experiences and perceptions of workers at each stage of this chain. At the same time, the cartography of these productive and commercial circuits will allow us to critically investigate the technologies and political rationalities that guide recent public and private interventions in urban popular commerce markets, as well as the contradictions in the discourses of entrepreneurship and modernization of popular economies. .
Funding: FAPESP – Geração Program
Memories of an Urban Market in dispute
Abstract: This project for the Knowledge Mobilization Awards (KMA-USF) aims to recover the formation and development process of one of the largest informal urban markets in Brazil and Latin America, the “Feira da Madrugada” in São Paulo, through the memory of its workers. We seek to shed light on the invisible struggles of men and women who, trying to make a living, produced the urban, commercial and real estate value of a space that today attracts investments of hundreds of millions of Reais. The proposal acquires greater social importance precisely at the present time, when many of these workers have been facing a process of gentrification of this market, which after gaining notoriety and value through informal commercial activities, attracted the attention of the state and private investors, leading to projects of “modernization” and “enterprise” that make it difficult for the poorest traders to remain.
Funding: Urban Studies Foundation
Grey zones and territory: the transformation of work and the emerging figure of the platform worker: a France-Brazil comparison
Summary: This project, coordinated by Cibele Rizek (Brazil) and Christian Azaïs (France), is focused on themes addressed by researchers with extensive experience in collaborating on research projects. From the perspective of an empirical object delimited in two national contexts – drivers and delivery men whose work is mediated by digital platforms, their working and living conditions and their inscription in the local territory – the research will examine new and old forms of precariousness and informality . We question the regulation of this emerging figure in the labor market, mobilizing