Alessandra Regina dos Santos

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Universidade Federal de São Carlos (UFSCAR). Centro de Educação e Ciências Humanas (CECH) (Institutional affiliation from the last research proposal)
Birthplace: Brazil

PhD in Social Anthropology at the Federal University of São Carlos (2021) with a research internship at the University of Lisbon (2019-2021).Master in Social Anthropology (2014) and Bachelor of Social Science (2005) from the Federal University of São Carlos, with research supported by FAPESP, CNPq and CAPES. Researcher associated with the Laboratory of Ethnographic Experiments (LE-E / UFSCar) and the Instituto Mulheres e Economia (imuê).Currently conducting research together with the quilombola population of Médio Vale do Ribeira, São Paulo.I am dedicated to the themes of political ecology, the anthropology of science and the anthropology of Afro-Brazilian populations. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)

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Scholarships in Brazil

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This project aims to investigate the crossing of distinct mapping practices and modes of production of knowledge, from ethnomapping experiences in self-called quilombolas people that lives on the watershed region of the Ribeira de Iguape river. It's a critical reflection about the etnocartography as a way of dialogue between a multiplicity of actors and epistemologies; experiences in whic…
On the trails of the elders: knowledge practices and mapping techniques on the Ribeira Valley, BP.DR

Scholarships abroad

Completed (most recent)

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My ethnographic incursion is about the people who live in the region of the middle Ribeira river. Those places are cohabited by indigenous people, quilombolas and a multiplicity of beings that, in their ways of existing and resisting to the life-imprisoning blows, move in defense of earth and water. The permanent fight against the projects of imprisonment of the waters of the Ribeira rive…
Life and Death Movements around the waters of the Ribeira river: bodies, lands, and fights between the riverine quilombolas of the middle Ribeira Valley-SP., BE.EP.DR

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Anna Catarina Morawska Vianna

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Anthropology Humanities

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