Resume

• 2010

  UC Berkeley

  Cambridge MA

  Postdoc Fellow

  Harvard University

  Salvador Area

  Brazil

  Assistant Professor of Anthropological Theory

  UFBA - Federal University of Bahia

  Waltham

  Lecturer

  Brandeis University

  Berkeley CA

  Visiting Scholar

  UC Berkeley

• 2008

  AAA

  Spanish

  Portuguese

  French

  English

  Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

  Anthropology

  University of St. Andrews

• 2006

  Master of Science (MSc)

  Anthropology

  London School of Economics and Political Science

• 2004

  \nThe concept of ‘structural violence’ dates back at least to the 1960s when it was first used by Latin American liberation theologians to refer to ‘sinful social structures characterized by poverty’ (Farmer

  p. 307). A strong connection between ‘spaces of poverty’ and ‘structural violence’ is often taken for granted in most discussions around the latter concept. This article critically examines the constitution of Brazilian favelas as spaces belonging to a broader structure of urban violence. I concern myself with questions such as: what approach to the question of violence can do greater justice to the experiences and aspirations of people with whom I shared my life in one of the largest shantytowns of Latin America? The discussion explores violence as a multifaceted phenomenon in the city of Rio de Janeiro and raises a question regarding the specific type of violence that is generated by urban scholars themselves through their constitution of certain urban spaces as belonging to assumed structures of violence. People living in favelas themselves do not always appreciate or agree with the classificatory structures deployed by scholars. What is the least violent position that one can take when it comes to the study of favelas and urban violence? Based on ethnographic experiences

  I come to the proposal that more desirable studies of violence should give priority to the daily experiences of people argued to be the victims in our narratives.

  The Violence of Structural Violence: Ethical Commitments and an Exceptional Day in a Brazilian Favela.

  What does it take to recognise “confusion” as a particular form in itself? This text explores how different types of knowledge inflect the way that some Brazilian favela (shantytown) dwellers experience and deal with confusion in their daily lives. I contend that religious grammars of confusion may enable the recognition and understanding of a wide variety of other (ontological) forms of confusion in the daily life of different groups living in Favela da Rocinha

  Rio de Janeiro. The method used for my investigation is an ethnographic and recursive one. Part of the confusion manifested in the capacity of recognising “a confusion” derives exactly from the condition that there is no fixed or neutral epistemological position to serve as a basis from which to arbitrate with precision the existence of confusion as a form. In an attempt to better understand the way under which confusion exists in people’s everyday lives

  I describe and analyse particular events that I experienced during an Afro-Brazilian (Umbanda) religious celebration and other more quotidian episodes with a different group

  my Evangelical friends. What are the struggles and conflicts of power that warrant the existence of certain confusions? What confusions would normative sexual

  religious and class-based orders rather avoid? The historical presence of Eshu in the Afro-Brazilian pantheon as the god of all agreements and disagreements

  lord of all paths and crossroads and the master of all order and confusion has been deeply valued in Afro-Brazilian religious cosmologies – among other reasons

  for the power of disruption that it offers against an oppressive social order. I suggest that part of the political dimension that informs acts of recognition of confusion as a form is revealed when we interrogate and confuse the context of order against which “a confusion” may emerge.

  Ontological confusion: Eshu and the Devil dance to \"The Samba of the Black Madman\"

  This chapter opens up a discussion regarding the multiplicity of assemblages figuring experiences of freedom in the lives of queer persons in Rio de Janeiro

  Brazil. The chapter presents an alternative account to the historically established sense ofgay liberation based upon the experiences of queer subjects in the 1960s and 1970s in the Unites States of America (often in reference to the Stonewall riots and other events that followed them). My objective is to provide a more complex understanding regarding the contemporary operations of freedom (and liberalism) in the lives of queer subjects living in political territories that are not assumed to be the homeland of liberal values.

  “Don’t mess with my fags!” – said the drug lord: Queer liberation in a Brazilian favela

  Moises

  Lino e Silva

  Harvard University

  Brandeis University

  UFBA - Federal University of Bahia

• 1999

  Bachelor of Arts (BA)

  International Relations

  Universidade de Brasília

• Anthropology

  Field Research

  Latin America

  West Africa

  Ethnography

  Critical Thinking

  Ontologia da confusão: Exu e o Diabo dançam o “Samba do Crioulo Doido”

  Argumenta-se que repertórios de saberes “religiosos” facilitam o reconhecimento e a compreensão de uma grande variedade de instâncias (ontológicas) de confusão. O método utilizado na investigação é etnográfico e recursivo. Parte da confusão que se manifesta na própria capacidade de reconhecer uma confusão deriva justamente da condição de que não há posição epistemológica fixa ou neutra para servir como base a partir da qual seria possível arbitrar com imparcialidade sobre a existência de confusões enquanto formas imanentes. Na tentativa de entender melhor os modos em que a confusão existe na vida diária de alguns amigos na Rocinha

  descrevo e analiso eventos que vivi durante uma festa de Exu em um terreiro de umbanda. Discuto

  ainda

  episódios vividos com vizinhos evangélicos na favela. Discorro sobre as lutas e os conflitos de poder que asseguram ou negam a existência e o reconhecimento de confusões diversas: por exemplo

  no campo da sexualidade

  das doutrinas religiosas e dos conflitos de classe. Demonstro que o poder de perturbação que Exu e Pombagira oferecem contra uma ordem social opressora torna-se bastante importante em situações de discriminação. Sugere-se que parte da dimensão política que informa atos de reconhecimento da confusão enquanto forma específica é revelada ao interrogarem-se e confundirem-se contextos de ordem contra os quais “uma confusão” pode surgir.

  Ontologia da confusão: Exu e o Diabo dançam o “Samba do Crioulo Doido”

  Rev. of \"Urban Encounters: Affirmative Action and Black Identity in Brazil\".

  Red Brick in Rio.

  The Importance of the Informal in the City of the Future.

  This article presents episodes of gay sex in the daily lives of people from a Brazilian shantytown (favela). It does so through a writing genre I call ‘ethnographic striptease’

  which offers a picture of sexuality that is less ‘clinical’ and more similar to the form of an ‘erotic art’. This is based on the Foucauldian proposed distinction between two forms of knowledge discussed in History of Sexuality

  Volume I: ‘scientia sexualis’ and ‘ars erotica’. I ask what an understanding of sexuality based more on the latter would look like. The result is presented in six concrete examples of this ethnographic form

  which are provided in the article. These are followed by some personal commentaries

  rather than by a ‘scientific analysis’ of them. By disrupting the boundaries of established nar- rative genres

  the article offers a contribution towards the expansion of the ways in which human sexuality can be addressed and communicated. In a game of hiding and revealing

  an ethnographic striptease offers a different look at queer sex life emerging from a large favela in Rio de Janeiro.

  Queer Sex Vignettes from a Brazilian Favela: An Ethnographic Striptease.

  Formally Informal: Daily Life and the Shock of Order in a Brazilian Favela.

  Huon Wardle

  ‘Freedom’ is one of the most fiercely contested words in contemporary global experience. This book provides an up-to-date overview from an anthropological perspective of the diverse ways in which freedom is understood and practiced in everyday life

  including the emergent relationships between governance

  autonomy and liberty. The contributors offer a wealth of ethnographic insight from a variety of geographic

  cultural and political contexts. Taken together the essays constitute a radical challenge to assumptions about what freedom means in today’s world.

  Freedom in Practice: Governance

  Autonomy and Liberty in the Everyday

  One of the major challenges of urban development has been reconciling the way cities develop with the mounting evidence of resource depletion and the negative environmental impacts of predominantly urban-based modes of production and consumption. This book aims to re-politicise the relationship between urban development

  sustainability and justice

  and to explore the tensions emerging under real circumstances

  as well as their potential for transformative change.\n\nFor some

  cities are the root of all that is unsustainable

  while for others cities provide unique opportunities for sustainability-oriented innovations that address equity and ecological challenges. This book is rooted in the latter category

  but recognises that if cities continue to evolve along current trajectories they will be where the large bulk of the most unsustainable and inequitable human activities are concentrated. By drawing on a range of case studies from both the global South and global North

  this book is unique in its aim to develop an integrated social-ecological perspective on the challenge of sustainable urban development.\n\nThrough the interdisciplinary and original research of a new generation of urban researchers across the global South and North

  this book addresses old debates in new ways and raises new questions about sustainable urban development. It will be of interest to researchers

  city managers and a wide range of policy actors in government

  civil society and the private sector.\n

  A conversation in a dentist’s chair: employment

  marginality and freedom on the borders of a Brazilian favela.