Guilherme Moura Fagundes

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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

Guilherme Moura Fagundes is an environmental anthropologist, STS scholar and filmmaker working on the technodiversity of ecological management. His current research focuses on fire management and the production of pyrodiversity in the Brazilian Savanna (Cerrado), exploring Quilombola ecologies and environmental conservation technologies through a multimodal ethnography. Before joining as Associate Professor at University of São Paulo, he was visiting scholar at Princeton University (2021-2022), University of Brasília (2019-2021) and Collége de France (2017), where he is a member of the "Anthropologie de la Vie" research group. His research and audiovisual pieces received numerous academic accolades, as the ICS / UnB Award (2020), CAPES Award (2020), Lélia Gonzales Award (2020) and Pierre Verger Award for Ethnographic Film (2018), and Photo Essay (2020). He is preparing his first book, supported by Prix Jeune Chercheur (2022) from the Société des Américanistes (Source: Lattes Curriculum)

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Scholarships in Brazil

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This project underpins an ethnography of sururu (Mytella falcata) fishing in Maceió (AL), focusing on the research problem of the modes of action and technical gestures that shape domestic biodiversity within artisanal fishing. As a member of the mussel family, the shellfish in question is a northeastern culinary delicacy and is one of the main fish products sold in popular markets and lu…
Fishing for Spawning: Techniques of Sururu Fishing and Domestic Biodiversity in the Mundaú Lagoon (Maceió, AL), BP.MS
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This research project intends to base parameters for an ethnographic study with recyclable materials collectors, homeless in the center of the city of São Paulo. The focus is on the technical diversity of the gathering activity, which can be found in the forms of interaction with urban waste. The emphasis here is on the collectors' modes of action and territorialities. In this sense, we p…
Ecologies of scavenging: waste, gathering and scavenging in downtown São Paulo, BP.MS
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The present project aims to examine transformations related to the emergence of the integrated fire management policy in Brazilian environmental conservation, reflecting on the relationship between anthropogenic fire regimes and food production. The study will be conducted in one of the Conservation Units (CU) in the Cerrado biome, specifically in the Serra da Canastra National Park, loca…
"Field Burners and Cheese Makers: Reverberations between Pyropolitics and (Agro and Micro)Biodiversity in the Production of Artisanal Cheeses in the Serra da Canastra", BP.PD

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This international internship project is part of the ongoing master's research Ecologies of scavenging: waste, gathering and scavenging in the centre of São Paulo, involving a period of six months as a visiting research student (2o academic term of 2025) at the Center for the Anthropology of Technics and Technodiversity (CATT) at University College of London under the advisory of Professo…
Ecologies of scavenging: waste, gathering and scavenging in the centre of São Paulo, BE.EP.MS

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4 / 4	All Scholarships

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