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Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas (IFCH) (Institutional affiliation from the last research proposal) Birthplace: Portugal
Susana Durão is Professor of Anthropology at Unicamp/IFCH, fellow researcher at the Center for Public Policy Studies (NEPP), and CNPq productivity fellow. Previously, she was a researcher at the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon (ICS-UL). Recently, Durão was a senior visiting researcher at Mecila: Maria Sibylla Merian Center for Coexistence and Inequality in Latin America at the Global South Studies Center (CEBRAP, São Paulo) and visiting fellow at the University of Cologne. Currently, Durão coordinates the research project Magüta: Justice, Security, and Violence in Alto Solimões, Amazonia associated with the university-supported Extension Program (ProEEC, NEPP, NEPO, PAGU, IFCH). Durão was a judge for the 2025 Jabuti Academic Award. She has conducted research on police work and public security policies in indigenous communities under an international project at the University of Toronto. She has extensive work on public and private security, public security policies, and plural policing from an anthropological and ethnographic perspective. She has done fieldwork in regions of Portugal, Africa, and Brazil. Durão has held a position of trust at the Provost's Office for several years as general coordinator of Unicamp's Secretariat for Campus Life (SVC), the body responsible for creating and developing a preventive and unarmed university community security model. See more at: https://www. susanadurao.org/ (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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Since the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) introduced the concept of the "serial killer" in the 1970s, criminal profiling has played a pivotal role in shaping the understanding of serial killers. Developing a criminal profile involves a fundamental shift in scale, transforming evidence left at crime scenes into deductions about potential perpetrators. This project aims to explore the…
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 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…
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…
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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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