Susana Durão is an Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the Institute of Philosophy and Humanities at the University of Campinas-UNICAMP (since 2023). She has been teaching in the social sciences course, the postgraduate program in social anthropology, and the postgraduate program in social sciences (cities track) since 2013. She is an associate researcher at NEPP/UNICAMP the Center for Public Policy Studies, and at the Gender Studies Center PAGU, at the same university, and a CNPq Level 2 Productivity Scholar since 2019. Durão completed her undergraduate and master's degrees at the Nova University of Lisbon (1996/1999) and her PhD at ISCTE-University Institute of Lisbon (2006). She conducted postdoctoral research at the National Museum of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (2007-2008). She was a contracted researcher at the Institute of Social Sciences at the University of Lisbon (2008-2013). Durão was a Visiting Researcher in the Summer Program of Social Sciences at the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study (2015-2017) and a Senior Visiting Researcher at Mecila: Maria Sibylla Merian Center for Advanced Studies in Latin America (2020-21), and a Germany Visiting Scholar at the Global South Studies Center (GSSC) at the University of Cologne (2024). She has coordinated several projects and has extensive publications on the topics of anthropology of work/organizations; cities/violence; policing/public and private security; inequality/gender/racism. Durão has conducted fieldwork in Portugal, Brazil, and Mozambique. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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Sabina Frederic will be presenting her studies based on her research over more than 15 years, on theory and scientific inquiries in social anthropology of public forces, democracy and policing. She will present seminars based on her work "The Traps of the Past. The Armed Forces and its Integration to Democracy in Argentina" which received the National Award for Best Anthropological Test i…
This project intends to develop a comparative ethnography of new security formats emerging in contemporary urban contexts of both southern Europe (especially within the PIGS group of countries) and the Global South. The focus will be centered on novel policing projects developing at the margins i.e. in a grey area somewhere between the military and the civil, the legal and the illegal, t…
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Considering the importance of paid domestic work in Latin America in economic, social and political terms, as well as the complex web of inequalities that make it up intersectionally, this research project focuses its ethnographic analysis on domestic employers, seeking a comparative approach between two important countries in the region: Brazil and Argentina. The proposal will consist of…
The death of Antônio da Costa Santos, mayor of Campinas elected in 2000 and murdered in 2001, was never resolved. Therefore, it raised narratives of webs of political involvement and criminal offenses that could have culminated in the mysterious and unfinished murder. This martyr of the city which dies under his management, turns crime into a moral tale that forces Campinas to (re)think o…
This research project proposes an investigation regarding the current expansion of Forensic Genetics in Brazil. The main objective of the research is to identify and analyze the political configurations and scientific foundations of the Integrated Network of Genetic Profile Banks (RIBPG/MJSP), considered here as the main political technology of genetic profiling for purposes of criminal i…
The debate around domestic work in Brazil has sparked debates inside and outside the academic sphere for some decades. More recently, due to the Covid-19 pandemic and its potential to unveil inequalities, the issue has gained even greater repercussion. Considering that the relations between employers and domestic servants constitute places of formation and class distinction (GOLDSTEIN, 20…
Using material from the Jardim Maravilha subdivision, a working-class neighborhood located at the urban periphery of Rio de Janeiro, this two-year project aims to study ethnographically the large range of antagonisms and cooperations that emerged from the quest for privacy, and their impact on the production of space. Privacy is a native category used to describe the free-dom that a perso…
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This internship project abroad is part of the Master's research project "The employer's world in focus: class, race, and gender in domestic work" (Case No. 2021/03417-6), carried out at the Postgraduate Program in Anthropology of the State University of Campinas. The present project foresees a research internship in Argentina, a country with extensive academic and political experience wit…
This research project foresees a period of twelve months at the Institut de recherche interdisciplinaire sur les enjeux sociaux (IRIS - EHESS/CNRS/Inserm/Universidade Paris 13), during which the data I have been producing in Brazil on the use of DNA databanks for criminal investigation and forensic DNA phenotyping projects developed in the country will be analyzed. More precisely, the obj…
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