Biography
Mariana Cabral Campos is a PhD candidate at the University of São Paulo's Institute of International Relations (IRI/USP) and at King's College London Brazil Institute, with funding from the São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP). She has a MA degree in International Relations from the San Tiago Dantas Postgraduate Programme (UNESP, UNICAMP, PUC-SP), a project partially funded by the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES), and a BA degree in International Relations from the Fluminense Federal University's Institute of Strategic Studies (Inest/UFF).
Mariana is an associate researcher at the Centre for Research in Health Law (CEPEDISA/USP) and the IRP ALCOM group (USP/Paris 1-Sorbonne/Unifesp/Unisinos), as well as the Working Group on Pandemic Agreements and the IHR (Fiocruz/USP). Her areas of interest are: Global Health Governance; Critical Studies in Global Health; Emotions and International Relations; Death and Mourning Studies; Memory Studies; Iconographic and Ethnographic Methodologies.
Research
Thesis title: "Global Health Governance and the production of Subaltern Grief during the COVID-19 pandemic: a case study on the Manaus and New York mass graves"
Mariana's PhD research investigates experiences of mourning and memorialisation during the COVID-19 pandemic, arguing that, as a mass death event, it provoked an unequal distribution of death that reproduces vulnerabilities and denies rights and recognition to specific, historically marginalized, bodies and territories. To do so it looks at two cases of mass graves opened in the context of the pandemic: in the Nossa Senhora Aparecida cemetery in Manaus (Brazil) and in the Hart Island cemetery in New York (United States).
Through these, the research examines how global health emergency response can reinforce hegemonic patterns and structural inequalities through the management of death, mourning, and the right to memory. Starting from death itself, we collect photographic and testimonial records to instigate an analysis focused on critical, decolonial, and feminist literatures. Our goal is to address what the living owes to the dead, contributing to human rights-centred policies on global health emergencies.
PhD supervision
- Principal supervisor: Professor Deisy de Freitas Lima Ventura
- Secondary supervisor: Dr Octávio Luiz Motta Ferraz