Member Profiles

My academic work lies in political, urban, and development geography. Drawing from both fieldwork and social theory, I try to understand how State power and governance are produced and maintained in rapidly developing contexts like Brazil. More specifically, I am interested in the prosaic and everyday processes that produce the State, governance and citizenship, inequality, and relations of power – and the moments that deconstruct these processes – in Brazil and other countries of the Global South. On the one hand, my work provides much needed empirical insight for analyses of socio-cultural change, neoliberalism, and uneven development; and on the other hand, it contributes more broadly to theoretical debates surrounding critical development, State theory, security/policing, and urban and rural poverty.