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Katerina Chatzikidi is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford.
Her research explores notions of territoriality and its multiple associations with cultural and religious heritage. For her doctoral thesis, she undertook 15 months of field research among Black rural quilombo communities in the north of Maranhão state, Brazil. She focused on grassroots initiatives taken by local quilombolas in order to protect and maintain their collective territory vis-à-vis those they recognise as their primary land antagonists, namely Pentecostal and charismatic Christians.
Main research interests include: religious and territorial tensions, pottery and embodiment, notions of collectivity, rural communities, commons and enclosure.
From September 2018 she will be a Stipendiary Fellow at the Institute of Latin American Studies (ILAS), University of London.