Brazilian Studies Research

• Current number of academic staff: 4 (plus associates in a number of other departments).
• Current number of research students: 4.
• Recent publications:
• Southern Cities: Locomotives or Wagons of National Development?;
• Consuming Visions: Cinema, Literature and Modernity in Rio de Janeiro, 1890s -1920s;
• The embodied state: governmentality in a Brazilian favela;
• Ditadura e Repressão [Dictatorship and Repression];
• Brazil: Struggle for Human Rights.
• Current research projects:
• Social networks and knowledge in developing countries’ city-regions;
• Cinematic spectacles of modernity: early film in Brazil;
• The geographies of religion and their connection to governance and globalization;
• The performance of police ombudsmen in Pernambuco and São Paulo, Brazil.
• Partner organisations: The Institute is closely involved in the College’s key partnership with the University of São Paulo, as well as a number of other institutional and departmental partnerships in Brazil, with the possibility of research exchanges for postgraduate students.

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The newly established King’s Brazil Institute offers a unique and exciting environment for the in-depth study of Brazil. The Institute is able to draw on academic expertise in a range of disciplinary departments across the College, and supervision may be provided from within the Institute or jointly with other staff of the College. Staff research interests include the following:

Professor Anthony Pereira:
Comparative politics; democracy and authoritarianism; political regimes and regime change; military rule; social movements; citizenship and human rights; new institutions of accountability in Brazilian public security; Brazil's political, economic, and social transformation in the 20th and early 21st century.

Dr Alvaro Comin:
Urban and regional studies; São Paulo as a city-region and global city; inequality within 60 major cities in Brazil; the relationship between national strategies of economic development, spacial inequalities, and urban landscapes; the history of economic thought in Brazil; social networks and knowledge in developing countries' city-regions (India and Brazil).

Dr Maite Conde:
Brazilian film; the relationship between cinema and modernity in Brazil; film history and historiography; film and urban culture; Brazilian cultural theory and philosophy.

Jeffrey Garmany:
Brazil in the twenty-first century; the geographies of religion and their connection to governance and globalisation; emergent forms of civil association relative to state-based rule; the relationships between drugs, violence, and death in contemporary urban space; governance in favelas; globalisation; the environment.