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Books by Moises Lino e Silva
Harvard Review of Latin America, 2023
There was a time in Brazil, long ago, when the division between “heterosexuals” and “homosexuals”... more There was a time in Brazil, long ago, when the division between “heterosexuals” and
“homosexuals” seemed sufficient to describe sexual orientation. Today, even an alphabet
soup of acronymns isn’t enough to encompass all emerging non-normative sexual identities.
The proliferation of terms with identity claims can make us grapple with the infamous
problem of representation and representativeness. Given this scenario, a research group
dedicated to the study of Ethics, Power and Abjection (EPA), based at the Federal University
of Bahia (UFBA), Brazil, decided to compile a glossary of “sexual (dis)identification” terms.
EDUFBA, 2023
Se houve um momento, longínquo, em que a mera divisão entre heterossexuais e homossexuais parecia... more Se houve um momento, longínquo, em que a mera divisão entre heterossexuais e homossexuais parecia ser suficiente para distinguir as pessoas no que tange à sexualidade, hoje, nem mesmo o mais extenso dos acrônimos é o bastante para abarcar todas as identidades sexuais não normativas que emergem. Assim, o livro reúne 29 identificações não normativas, as “(des)identidades”, que têm em comum o fato de que elas estão para além de identidades já mais consolidadas: tanto daquelas heteronormativas quanto de outras não normativas que se tornaram tradicionais, de forma a reconhecer as particularidades de cada uma das identidades sexuais não normativas para além de uma sigla.
The University of Chicago Press, 2022
A mesmerizing ethnography of the largest favela in Rio, where residents articulate their own poli... more A mesmerizing ethnography of the largest favela in Rio, where residents articulate their own politics of freedom against the backdrop of multiple forms of oppression.
Normative liberalism has promoted the freedom of privileged subjects, those entitled to rights—usually white, adult, heteronormative, and bourgeois—at the expense of marginalized groups, such as Black people, children, LGBTQ people, and slum dwellers. In this visceral ethnography of Rocinha, the largest favela in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Moisés Lino e Silva explores what happens when liberalism is challenged by people whose lives are impaired by normative understandings of liberty. He calls such marginalized visions of freedom “minoritarian liberalism,” a concept that stands in for overlapping, alternative modes of freedom—be they queer, favela, or peasant.
Lino e Silva introduces readers to a broad collective of favela residents, most intimately accompanying Natasha Kellem, a charismatic self-declared travesti (a term used in Latin America to indicate a specific form of female gender construction opposite to the sex assigned at birth). While many of those the author meets consider themselves “queer,” others are treated as “abnormal” simply because they live in favelas. Through these interconnected experiences, Lino e Silva not only pushes at the boundaries of anthropological inquiry, but also offers ethnographic evidence of non-normative routes to freedom for those seeking liberties against the backdrop of capitalist exploitation, transphobia, racism, and other patterns of domination.
Edições 70, 2023
Originário de ideias contratualistas e revoluções, o liberalismo eurocêntrico alinhou-se historic... more Originário de ideias contratualistas e revoluções, o liberalismo eurocêntrico alinhou-se historicamente a diversas correntes políticas, firmando-se na maioria dos países. Na prática, o liberalismo normativo promoveu a liberdade de sujeitos privilegiados, titulares de “direitos” (geralmente brancos, adultos, heteronormativos e burgueses), às custas de minorias (crianças, travestis, povos ameríndios, negros e moradores de favela). Este livro apresenta um desafio à estabilidade do liberalismo contemporâneo: a crítica do autor não se baseia em argumentos filosóficos desencarnados, mas em teorias etnográficas embasadas em pesquisa de campo. Esta antropologia queer do liberalismo e o diligente retrato etnográfico da Favela da Rocinha enfrentam os juízos de pobreza e opressão, e os próprios limites da liberdade.
'Freedom' is one the most fiercely contested words in contemporary global experience. Yet, during... more 'Freedom' is one the most fiercely contested words in contemporary global experience. Yet, during the last fifty years, anthropologists have had surprisingly little to say on the topic. As Malinowski pointed out, some of this reluctance comes down to the 'semantic chaos' that emerges when we try to determine what freedom actually means in everyday life. With this volume, the editors, Moises Lino e Silva and Huon Wardle, tackle this problem through the study of dramatically different cases of freedom in practice: taken together these essays constitute a radical challenge to assumptions about what freedom means in today’s world.
Papers by Moises Lino e Silva
Ponto Urbe, 2024
Este artigo apresenta episódios relacionados à sexualidade não-normativa (e principalmente gay) n... more Este artigo apresenta episódios relacionados à sexualidade não-normativa (e principalmente gay) na vida
cotidiana de moradoras(es) da Favela da Rocinha, Rio de Janeiro. Escrevo-o empregando um gênero de
escrita que denomino de “striptease etnográfico”, que oferece uma imagem menos “clínica” do sexo e
mais próxima de uma “arte erótica”. Minha conceptualização é baseada na proposta foucaultiana de
distinguir duas formas de produção do conhecimento discutidas na obra História da Sexualidade,
Volume 1: “scientia sexualis ” e “ars erotica ”. Pergunto como seria uma compreensão sobre a sexualidade
mais baseada neste último modo de saber apresentado por Foucault. Apresento seis exemplos concretos
dessa forma etnográfica, todos inspirados pela “arte erótica”. Em vez de uma análise que se pretende
“científica”, as cenas etnográficas são seguidas por comentários pessoais. Ao romper os limites dos
gêneros narrativos mais estabelecidos, o artigo oferece uma contribuição para a expansão das formas
pelas quais a sexualidade humana pode ser abordada e comunicada. Em um jogo de esconder e revelar,
esse “striptease etnográfico” oferece um olhar diferente sobre a vida sexual queer que emerge de uma
grande favela no Rio de Janeiro.
Lambda Nordica
In this piece, I introduce Natasha Kellem, a charismatic self-declared travesti (a term used in ... more In this piece, I introduce Natasha Kellem, a charismatic self-declared travesti (a term used in Latin America to indicate a specific form of female gender construction opposite to the sex assigned at birth). Through interconnected experiences, I offer ethnographic evidence of non-normative routes to freedom for those seeking liberties against the backdrop of capitalist exploitation, transphobia, racism, and other patterns of domination.
Harvard Review of Latin America, 2023
National debates on animal rights—at first sight seemingly disconnected from racial issues—at a c... more National debates on animal rights—at first sight seemingly disconnected from racial issues—at a closer glance reveal the nefarious operations of discrimination against Black citizens.
Glossário de (des)identidades sexuais, 2023
O principal marcador de diferença entre uma “bicha” e uma “bicha-boy” seria o fato de as “bichas ... more O principal marcador de diferença entre uma “bicha” e uma “bicha-boy” seria o fato de as “bichas de verdade” expressarem a identidade sexual e de gênero delas para além de atos privados e de afirmações identitárias limitadas a atos verbais.
Footnotes to Triangular Cartographies, 2023
Art, Religion & Ecology in a Sacred Forest in Africa / Arte, Religião e Ecologia em uma Floresta ... more Art, Religion & Ecology in a Sacred Forest in Africa / Arte, Religião e Ecologia em uma Floresta Sagrada Africana
This article presents episodes of gay sex in the daily lives of people from a Brazilian shantytow... more 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 narrative 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.
Sapiens, 2023
An anthropologist explores how favela residents of Rio de Janeiro create their own versions of li... more An anthropologist explores how favela residents of Rio de Janeiro create their own versions of liberty—even under conditions of violence, poverty, and marginalization.
Etnofoor, 2017
‘Who or what can be free, or not free?’ The opening question of Lino e Silva and Wardle’s article... more ‘Who or what can be free, or not free?’ The opening question of Lino e Silva and Wardle’s article in this issue can be seen as central to this edition of Etnofoor.
What does it take to recognise “confusion” as a particular form in itself? This text explores how... more 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 recur- sive 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 preci- sion 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 war- rant the existence of certain confusions? What confusions would normative sex- ual, religious and class-based orders rather avoid? The historical presence of Eshu in the Afro-Brazilian pantheon as the god of all agreements and disagree- ments, 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 recogni- tion of confusion as a form is revealed when we interrogate and confuse the con- text of order against which “a confusion” may emerge.
Etnográfica, 2019
Argumenta-se que repertórios de saberes “religiosos” facilitam o reconhecimento e a compreensão d... more 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.
One of the major challenges of urban development has been reconciling the way cities develop with... more 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.
For 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.
Through 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.
This chapter opens up a discussion regarding the multiplicity of assemblages figuring experiences... more 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.
Afro-Brazilian religious concepts can be better understood from the perspective of their daily pr... more Afro-Brazilian religious concepts can be better understood from the perspective of their daily practice, which help decenter Euro-American understandings of the value and management of nature, greenery, and energies. To address the urban ecology of terreiros is also to reconsider what design can accomplish.
Harvard Review of Latin America, 2023
There was a time in Brazil, long ago, when the division between “heterosexuals” and “homosexuals”... more There was a time in Brazil, long ago, when the division between “heterosexuals” and
“homosexuals” seemed sufficient to describe sexual orientation. Today, even an alphabet
soup of acronymns isn’t enough to encompass all emerging non-normative sexual identities.
The proliferation of terms with identity claims can make us grapple with the infamous
problem of representation and representativeness. Given this scenario, a research group
dedicated to the study of Ethics, Power and Abjection (EPA), based at the Federal University
of Bahia (UFBA), Brazil, decided to compile a glossary of “sexual (dis)identification” terms.
EDUFBA, 2023
Se houve um momento, longínquo, em que a mera divisão entre heterossexuais e homossexuais parecia... more Se houve um momento, longínquo, em que a mera divisão entre heterossexuais e homossexuais parecia ser suficiente para distinguir as pessoas no que tange à sexualidade, hoje, nem mesmo o mais extenso dos acrônimos é o bastante para abarcar todas as identidades sexuais não normativas que emergem. Assim, o livro reúne 29 identificações não normativas, as “(des)identidades”, que têm em comum o fato de que elas estão para além de identidades já mais consolidadas: tanto daquelas heteronormativas quanto de outras não normativas que se tornaram tradicionais, de forma a reconhecer as particularidades de cada uma das identidades sexuais não normativas para além de uma sigla.
The University of Chicago Press, 2022
A mesmerizing ethnography of the largest favela in Rio, where residents articulate their own poli... more A mesmerizing ethnography of the largest favela in Rio, where residents articulate their own politics of freedom against the backdrop of multiple forms of oppression.
Normative liberalism has promoted the freedom of privileged subjects, those entitled to rights—usually white, adult, heteronormative, and bourgeois—at the expense of marginalized groups, such as Black people, children, LGBTQ people, and slum dwellers. In this visceral ethnography of Rocinha, the largest favela in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Moisés Lino e Silva explores what happens when liberalism is challenged by people whose lives are impaired by normative understandings of liberty. He calls such marginalized visions of freedom “minoritarian liberalism,” a concept that stands in for overlapping, alternative modes of freedom—be they queer, favela, or peasant.
Lino e Silva introduces readers to a broad collective of favela residents, most intimately accompanying Natasha Kellem, a charismatic self-declared travesti (a term used in Latin America to indicate a specific form of female gender construction opposite to the sex assigned at birth). While many of those the author meets consider themselves “queer,” others are treated as “abnormal” simply because they live in favelas. Through these interconnected experiences, Lino e Silva not only pushes at the boundaries of anthropological inquiry, but also offers ethnographic evidence of non-normative routes to freedom for those seeking liberties against the backdrop of capitalist exploitation, transphobia, racism, and other patterns of domination.
Edições 70, 2023
Originário de ideias contratualistas e revoluções, o liberalismo eurocêntrico alinhou-se historic... more Originário de ideias contratualistas e revoluções, o liberalismo eurocêntrico alinhou-se historicamente a diversas correntes políticas, firmando-se na maioria dos países. Na prática, o liberalismo normativo promoveu a liberdade de sujeitos privilegiados, titulares de “direitos” (geralmente brancos, adultos, heteronormativos e burgueses), às custas de minorias (crianças, travestis, povos ameríndios, negros e moradores de favela). Este livro apresenta um desafio à estabilidade do liberalismo contemporâneo: a crítica do autor não se baseia em argumentos filosóficos desencarnados, mas em teorias etnográficas embasadas em pesquisa de campo. Esta antropologia queer do liberalismo e o diligente retrato etnográfico da Favela da Rocinha enfrentam os juízos de pobreza e opressão, e os próprios limites da liberdade.
'Freedom' is one the most fiercely contested words in contemporary global experience. Yet, during... more 'Freedom' is one the most fiercely contested words in contemporary global experience. Yet, during the last fifty years, anthropologists have had surprisingly little to say on the topic. As Malinowski pointed out, some of this reluctance comes down to the 'semantic chaos' that emerges when we try to determine what freedom actually means in everyday life. With this volume, the editors, Moises Lino e Silva and Huon Wardle, tackle this problem through the study of dramatically different cases of freedom in practice: taken together these essays constitute a radical challenge to assumptions about what freedom means in today’s world.
Ponto Urbe, 2024
Este artigo apresenta episódios relacionados à sexualidade não-normativa (e principalmente gay) n... more Este artigo apresenta episódios relacionados à sexualidade não-normativa (e principalmente gay) na vida
cotidiana de moradoras(es) da Favela da Rocinha, Rio de Janeiro. Escrevo-o empregando um gênero de
escrita que denomino de “striptease etnográfico”, que oferece uma imagem menos “clínica” do sexo e
mais próxima de uma “arte erótica”. Minha conceptualização é baseada na proposta foucaultiana de
distinguir duas formas de produção do conhecimento discutidas na obra História da Sexualidade,
Volume 1: “scientia sexualis ” e “ars erotica ”. Pergunto como seria uma compreensão sobre a sexualidade
mais baseada neste último modo de saber apresentado por Foucault. Apresento seis exemplos concretos
dessa forma etnográfica, todos inspirados pela “arte erótica”. Em vez de uma análise que se pretende
“científica”, as cenas etnográficas são seguidas por comentários pessoais. Ao romper os limites dos
gêneros narrativos mais estabelecidos, o artigo oferece uma contribuição para a expansão das formas
pelas quais a sexualidade humana pode ser abordada e comunicada. Em um jogo de esconder e revelar,
esse “striptease etnográfico” oferece um olhar diferente sobre a vida sexual queer que emerge de uma
grande favela no Rio de Janeiro.
Lambda Nordica
In this piece, I introduce Natasha Kellem, a charismatic self-declared travesti (a term used in ... more In this piece, I introduce Natasha Kellem, a charismatic self-declared travesti (a term used in Latin America to indicate a specific form of female gender construction opposite to the sex assigned at birth). Through interconnected experiences, I offer ethnographic evidence of non-normative routes to freedom for those seeking liberties against the backdrop of capitalist exploitation, transphobia, racism, and other patterns of domination.
Harvard Review of Latin America, 2023
National debates on animal rights—at first sight seemingly disconnected from racial issues—at a c... more National debates on animal rights—at first sight seemingly disconnected from racial issues—at a closer glance reveal the nefarious operations of discrimination against Black citizens.
Glossário de (des)identidades sexuais, 2023
O principal marcador de diferença entre uma “bicha” e uma “bicha-boy” seria o fato de as “bichas ... more O principal marcador de diferença entre uma “bicha” e uma “bicha-boy” seria o fato de as “bichas de verdade” expressarem a identidade sexual e de gênero delas para além de atos privados e de afirmações identitárias limitadas a atos verbais.
Footnotes to Triangular Cartographies, 2023
Art, Religion & Ecology in a Sacred Forest in Africa / Arte, Religião e Ecologia em uma Floresta ... more Art, Religion & Ecology in a Sacred Forest in Africa / Arte, Religião e Ecologia em uma Floresta Sagrada Africana
This article presents episodes of gay sex in the daily lives of people from a Brazilian shantytow... more 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 narrative 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.
Sapiens, 2023
An anthropologist explores how favela residents of Rio de Janeiro create their own versions of li... more An anthropologist explores how favela residents of Rio de Janeiro create their own versions of liberty—even under conditions of violence, poverty, and marginalization.
Etnofoor, 2017
‘Who or what can be free, or not free?’ The opening question of Lino e Silva and Wardle’s article... more ‘Who or what can be free, or not free?’ The opening question of Lino e Silva and Wardle’s article in this issue can be seen as central to this edition of Etnofoor.
What does it take to recognise “confusion” as a particular form in itself? This text explores how... more 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 recur- sive 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 preci- sion 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 war- rant the existence of certain confusions? What confusions would normative sex- ual, religious and class-based orders rather avoid? The historical presence of Eshu in the Afro-Brazilian pantheon as the god of all agreements and disagree- ments, 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 recogni- tion of confusion as a form is revealed when we interrogate and confuse the con- text of order against which “a confusion” may emerge.
Etnográfica, 2019
Argumenta-se que repertórios de saberes “religiosos” facilitam o reconhecimento e a compreensão d... more 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.
One of the major challenges of urban development has been reconciling the way cities develop with... more 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.
For 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.
Through 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.
This chapter opens up a discussion regarding the multiplicity of assemblages figuring experiences... more 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.
Afro-Brazilian religious concepts can be better understood from the perspective of their daily pr... more Afro-Brazilian religious concepts can be better understood from the perspective of their daily practice, which help decenter Euro-American understandings of the value and management of nature, greenery, and energies. To address the urban ecology of terreiros is also to reconsider what design can accomplish.
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](Conferência proferida no dia 24 de outubro de 2017, durante o 41° Encontro Anual da Associação Na... more Conferência proferida no dia 24 de outubro de 2017, durante o 41° Encontro Anual da Associação Nacional de Pós-Graduação e Pesquisa em Ciências Sociais (Anpocs), em Caxambu, MG, Brasil. Tradução de Moisés Lino Silva (UFBA).
JRAI, 2019
Luca Parisoli's (Universita della Calabria) review of our book: Lino e Silva, Moises & Huon Ward... more Luca Parisoli's (Universita della Calabria) review of our book: Lino e Silva, Moises & Huon Wardle (eds). Freedom in practice: governance, autonomy and liberty in the everyday. xii, 191 pp., illus., bibliogrs. London, New York: Routledge, 2016.
JRAI, 2021
LINO E SILVA, MOISES. Review of PACHECO DE OLIVEIRA, JOÃO. O nascimento do Brasil e outros ensaio... more LINO E SILVA, MOISES. Review of PACHECO DE OLIVEIRA, JOÃO. O nascimento do Brasil e outros ensaios. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, v. 27, p. 171-213, 2021.