graduate at Ciências Sociais from Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (1993), master's at Sociology from Instituto Universitário de Pesquisas do Rio de Janeiro (1994) and ph.d. at História e Teoria da Arte e da Arquitetura from Binghamton University State University Of New York (2002). Has experience in Sociology, focusing on Urban Sociology, acting on the following subjects: cultura de viagem, sociologia urbana, cinema, brasil/estados unidos and mídia. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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Cars are in the center of urban and environmental issues around the world. Cars entangle global economies, from the mainstream to the margins. Social research paid scarce attention to them. Our project departs from describing informal, illegal and criminal activities related to the second-hand car economies (street mechanics, trade and theft of parts, car theft and trafficking, resale of …
Recent ethnographies argue that the unequal dispute over urban infrastructure (water, electricity, waste management, paving, etc.) has become a fundamental perspective for the comparative and transnational analysis of urban conflict. Inscribed in these debates, this project aims to understand the tense relationship between the metropolitan transport infrastructure and the reconfigurations…
This research project addresses the interface between urban violence, as a category that consolidates and gives meaning to the lived experience in cities, and the commodification associated with the favelas in Rio de Janeiro and places related to drug trafficking in Medellín. The theoretical contribution of Urban Sociology and Sociology of Mobilities is chosen to pursue the following ques…
Realities in the informal economy are changing across the globe, with implications for how we discuss the phenomenon across space. Although recent debates have attempted to demonstrate the linkage between informality and formal economies within the global South but also with the North, there is limited understanding of the interplay across borders. This study draws upon in-depth interview…
Brazilian social stratification structure and income inequality has undergone important changes in recent years. Between the second half of the last decade and the middle 2010's, Brazilian working poor went through an upward social mobility period with a promise of integration through consumption. However, the scenario today presents an economic crisis, with increasing unemployment and in…
This research intends to discuss the relationship between the expansion of restaurants in the central areas of São Paulo (Pinheiros, Consolação, República and Santa Cecília districts), in the last two decades, and the internationalization of gastronomy as a set of aesthetic protocols that inform the act of eating, contributing to its entry into the category of leisure and urban entertainm…
This project presents a proposal for a Research Internships Abroad (BEPE/FAPESP) to be carried out in the position of Visiting Scholar (academic-year 2022-2023) at the Institute of Latin American Studies at Columbia University. My main objective during this Research Internship period will be the production of two Ph.D. thesis chapters and two subsequent international articles, based on ac…
São Paulo, Brazil's economic capital with a population of 12 million people, is a privileged object for those interested in urban issues worldwide. Since the 1940s, it has inspired thousands of PhD dissertations on spatial and social segregation, democratic development and socio-economic inequality, crime and violence, citizenship and urban change. From this vast production, this research…
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