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Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH) (Institutional affiliation from the last research proposal) Birthplace: Brazil
Senior lecturer in the Department of Sociology at the University of São Paulo. She has a degree in Social Sciences from the University of São Paulo, a master's degree in Political Science (USP) and a doctorate in Sociology (USP). In the Graduate Program in Sociology (PPGS-USP), she is linked to the research line "cities, interactions, inequalities and socio-spatial (i)mobilities". She coordinates the research group City and work. Themes: urban practices, trajectories and their territories; ways of governing popular territories, frictions, disputes, conflicts; transnational migrations and urban circuits of spatial mobilities; urban illegalisms, informal and illegal land and labor markets** As a result of six years of research carried out in partnership with the Institut de Recherche pour le Developpement (CNPq-IRD Agreement), she published, co-authored with Robert Cabanes, "Nas tramas da cidade: urban trajectories and their territories" (São Paulo: Humanitas, 2006). This research also led to the book A cidade nas fronteiras do legal e ilegal (The city on the borders of the legal and illegal) (Belo Horizonte: Editora Fino Traço, 2011). As a result of research carried out within the framework of a Franco-Brazilian agreement (USP-AIRD), of which she was also the coordinator, she published, in collaboration with Gabriel Kessler and Christian Azais, "Illegalisms, city and politics" (Belo Horizonte: Editora Fino Traço, 2012).***She was the coordinator of the Brazilian team of a Franco-Brazilian cooperation program (Capes-Cofecub Agreement, 2007-2011), with the project "Urban, national and transnational trajectories, circuits and networks and their impact on democratic institutional architecture", composed of researchers from USP, Unicamp and the Center for the Study of Violence (NEV) and, on the French side, the Centre Interdisciplinaire de Recherches Urbaines et Sociologiques (CIRUS-CERS, Université de Toulouse II) and the Centre d'Analyse et d'Intervention Sociologiques (CADIS-EHESS, Paris). The French coordinator was Angelina Peralva (Toulouse II). As a result, we coordinated the book "Illegalisms in globalization: work, migrations, markets (RJ: Editoria UFRJ, 2015)Recent projects: Conflict management in the production of the contemporary city, Fapesp Thematic Project (2014-2018). Fapesp-CNRS agreement - "Inconspicuous globalizations: compared fields (Brazil/Maghreb) / mondialisations discrètes: terrains comparés (Brésil-Maghreb) (2016-2018).Current project: City, population and conflict managementhttps://usp-br.academia.edu/VeraTelles (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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This Project aims to inaugurate a new phase of the Observatory of Evictions (OR), which for more than a decade has identified, mapped and analyzed threats and actual evictions of individuals and groups in the Metropolitan Region of São Paulo (MRSP), seeking to understand and influence the dynamics, urban projects and policies that lead to evictions. OR starting point was the recognition o…
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 …
Rosana Pinheiro-Machado (VR - Visiting Researcher) will join the Thematic Project "Conflict management in the production of a contemporary city: São Paulo's experience" (2013/26116-5). The VR should engage and interact directly with the research fronts that deal with the issues that she has been researching and publishing. VR will collaborate to the training of junior researcher team and …
Popular global marketplaces, often marked by informality, have become an inescapable part of the economic life and the urban landscapes of emerging and developing countries. These markets - the marketplaces and the commercial circuits that structure them - are now affected by significant changes, both from the point of view of the actors who participate in them and from the way they are i…
Based on recent urban changes that have been occurring in the State of Sao Paulo (Capital and selected Municipalities), this research project aims at investigating the different links that might articulate the govern of urban spaces and populations, the emergence of security technologies and the creation of market opportunities. It intends also to elaborate a political cartography of the …
This activity plan encompasses the qualitative research and the fieldwork of this project, through an ethnographic approach in territories under threat or facing immediate or potential risks of forced displacement. In accordance with the definitions and guidelines outlined in this Thematic Project, the research will take place in territories characterized by "critical situations," where o…
This research aims to investigate the societal dimensions of mass incarceration in the empirical context of urban occupations in the central region of the city of São Paulo. Through an ethnographic approach and participatory research, the researcher will reconstruct the trajectories of residents of four different occupations, taken as "descriptive threads" of the socio-spatial configurati…
The project pretends to cover the theme of forced evictions of urban population focusing central area in São Paulo. The analysis about these events has as main objective investigate the dynamics of production of urban space, housing conditions and the trajectories and livelihood of those forced or threatened to move. Also describing how this process territorialized and how the movement o…
This research project intends to go deeper into the reflections developed during my doctoral thesis. From the care perspective, the focus lies on the investigation of modulation processes within the Sao Paulo Women's Penitentiary (Penitenciária Feminina da Capital - PFC, São Paulo-SP). The doctoral theses aimed to understand how the incarceration in this institution pushes the imprisoned …
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Given the theoretical and empirical pathways I have taken in my doctoral research so far, two important aspects have emerged and must be addressed and more deeply investigated, as they are at the center of this international research internship project: 1) a better understanding and characterization of the issue of state violence and the field of conflict as producers of spaces, markets, …
This research is about transnational migrations, focusing on the city and the production of urban spaces. Assuming as main research procedure the reconstruction of the life trajectories of different groups of transnational migrants who arrived in the Metropolitan Region of São Paulo (RMSP) in the last decade, it is intended, in general terms, to understand the relation of these people to …
This project for the Research Internship Abroad Program (BEPE-FAPESP) involves a six-month period as a visiting student (from July 1 to December 31 2018) to be spent at the Department of Sociology at the University of Texas at Austin (UT-Austin), under the advisory of Dr. Javier Auyero. The proposal is related to the research I have been conducting at Brazil at the Graduated Program in So…
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