graduation at Ciências Sociais from Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (1991), master's at Sociology from Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (1996) and doctorate at Antropology from Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (2001). He is currently integrante de rede pesquisa at Universidade do Estado da Bahia, pesquisador visitante at University of Cape Town, membro comissão de projeto editorial at Associação Brasileira de Antropologia, professor doutor at Universidade de São Paulo and professora livre-docente at Universidade de São Paulo. Has experience in Antropology, focusing on Anthropology of the Afro-Brazilian Populations, acting on the following subjects: marcadores sociais da direrença, gênero, raça, sexualidade e gênero em perspectiva comparad, áfrica do sul and sexualidade. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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From a perspective that combines historical and ethnographic research, this project will focus on the moral economy that places gender and sexuality as operators of racial relations in the production of class inequality in a city in the Western Cape province, in South Africa. It starts from the understanding that the first apartheid law, the Mixed Marriage Act, which criminalizes interrac…
Since the 1980s, the Arts in African contexts have emerged strongly in biennials, exhibits and Art fairs inside the globalized circuit. Which substrates and movements mobilize creation and the expressive forms of cultural identities in their ethical-aesthetic and poetic dynamics? This first question unfolds in two study axes in this project, raising concerns in different connections and r…
The presence of the professor in the institution adds to a significant effort I have been making to recompose and expand the traditional line of PPGAS-USP research on Africa and African and Afro-Brazilian Populations. In recent years, the two main professors in the area at USP and in Brazil (Kabengele Munanga and Carlos Serrano) have retired and we have not been able to replace them with …
This project focuses on the trajectory and training of visual artists in Mozambique during the period of the country's civil war until the first years of post-apartheid (1980-1999), focusing on languages, themes and approaches, as well as the circulation of these artists and their works in South Africa.The time frame of the research covers the death of Samora Machel, the crisis of the soc…
This master project aims to ethnographically interrogate current debates and mobilizations around the transformation and decolonization effort of higher education in South Africa. I hope to approach the point of view of black students, protagonists of recent demands, such as the RhodesMustFall movement, which has also been strongly anchored in an intersectional perspective. Besides scruti…
The literature on homosexuality in the South African Defence Force (SADF) during the apartheid regime is meager and focuses mostly on interpersonal and institutional violence to which moffies (a derogative word in Afrikaner that designates effeminate men and/or homosexuals) were subjected in the institution. Nevertheless, based on fieldwork conducted in Stellenbosch, South Africa, among W…
The objective of this PhD project is to analyze the values attributed to South African "sugar relationships" that are established through the mediation of web pages and applications developed for this purpose. It is an intergenerational arrangement in which more resourceful men engage in affective-sexual-material exchanges with younger women. Taking in consideration the historical, social…
The aim of this research project is to analyze from an anthropological perspective the emergence of a set of public policies for LGBT persons deprived from freedom. The central locus of the research will be male units of Sao Paulo's penitentiary system and the CASA Foundation. The objective is to understand, on the one hand, the ways in which these various policies define the LGBT populat…
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In this BEPE proposal, an arm of my ongoing Ph.D. research which investigates the landscape of sexual, affective and material exchanges in intergenerational relationships in Cape Town, South Africa, I propose a 12-month BEPE research stay at the University of the Western Cape, under the supervision of Professor Marlize Rabe, preeminent scholar of family studies. I justify the proposal by …
The literature on homosexuality in the South African Defence Force (SADF) during the apartheid regime is meager and focuses mostly on interpersonal and institutional violence to which moffies (a derogative word in Afrikaner that designates effeminate men and/or homosexuals) were subjected in the institution. Nevertheless, based on fieldwork conducted in Stellenbosch, South Africa, among W…
The purpose of this research is to analyze the issue of LGBT prisoners in Mexico: how has this population been constituted (or not) as a specific subject of rights? What are the main social actors involved in this dynamics? Which discourses (political, technical-scientific and legal) are mobilized to elaborate their main demands? What public policies have been implemented in this directio…
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| 3 / 3 | Ongoing scholarships in Brazil |
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| 7 / 7 | Completed scholarships abroad |
| 25 / 23 | All research grants and scholarships |
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