Dr Andreza A de Souza Santos
Director of the Brazilian Studies Programme, University of Oxford. Andreza’s research and teaching interests include urban and political anthropology, political economy, and participatory politics. Regions of interest: Brazil, Latin America, South Africa, China and India. She is the author of the book: “The Politics of Memory: Urban Cultural Heritage in Brazil”.
In September 2018, I joined the Latin American Centre as the Director of the Brazilian Studies Programme and Lecturer in Latin American Studies. I currently teach the course Political Economy in Latin America, Cities, Citizenship in Latin America, Politics in Brazil and Doing Urban Ethnography. Before that, in the Urban Transformations team, I coordinated research projects focussing on urban studies in Brazil, China, South Africa and India.
2011-2015 – PhD in Social Anthropology, University of St Andrews (UK)
2007 – 2009 MA in Social Sciences, University of Freiburg (Germany), University of KwaZulu Natal (South Africa) and Jawaharlal Nehru University (India).
2001 – 2005 – BA in Political Science, University of Brasilia (Brazil)
I have a passion for interdisciplinary research. I did my PhD in Anthropology at the University of St Andrews and before that I studied Political Science in Freiburg (Germany), Durban (South Africa), Delhi (India), and Brasilia (Brazil). I central my investigation on how people perceive and participate in politics. From community policing to city planning, I look at aspects such as social memory and political culture to understand neighbourhood associations and participatory governance.
De Souza Santos, A. A. (2019) “The Politics of Memory: Urban Cultural Heritage in Brazil”, Rowman & Littlefield International.
De Souza Santos, A. A. and Keith, M. (eds.) (forthcoming 2020), “Urban transformations and public health in the emergent city.” Manchester University Press.
De Souza Santos, A. A. and Keith, M. (forthcoming 2021), Manchester University Press.
De Souza Santos, A. A. (with Sue Iamamoto) “Mining legacies in contemporary Potosi and Ouro Preto”. JLAG (October 2019).
De Souza Santos, A. A. “Trading time and space: grassroots negotiation in a Brazilian mining district.” Ethnography, (May 2019).
De Souza Santos, A. A. “Risky closeness and distance in two fieldwork sites in Brazil.” Contemporary Social Science, (January 2018).
De Souza Santos, A. A. “Infrastructure as catalyst for inequality in a Brazilian heritage site”. (In review 2019)
De Souza Santos, A. A. (2019) “Risky closeness and distance in two fieldwork sites in Brazil”. In Abdelhalim, J & Marks, M (eds) Identity, agency and fieldwork methodologies in risky environments. Routledge.
De Souza Santos, A. A. and Tom Hulme (2019) “Selective history: Inconvenient truths hidden behind revitalisation and preservation projects”. In Cupples, J. & T. Slater (eds.) Producing and contesting urban marginality: Interdisciplinary and comparative dialogues. Rowman & Littlefield International.
De Souza Santos, A. A. (2013) “Chandigarh and Brasilia: utopias or dystopias?” in Fulquet, G. Janz, C., Kumar, A. (eds.) Analyzing Globalisation in the 21st Century. FLACSO & Palm Leaf Publications, New Delhi, pp. 163-174
De Souza Santos, A. A (2020) Review of the book “An economic and demographic history of Sao Paulo” by Vidal Luna and Herbert S. Klein. The Journal of Urban History.
De Souza Santos, A. A (2018) Review of the book “The limits to citizen power: Participatory democracy and the entanglements of the state” by Victor Albert. The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
De Souza Santos, A. A. (2014, April 9) Review of the book “Space and Society in Central Brazil: A Panará Ethnography” by Elizabeth Ewart. The London School of Economics and Political Science Review of Books
De Souza Santos, A. A.; (2019) What can we learn from the dam collapse in Brumadinho?, Latin Trade
De Souza Santos, A. A.; (2018) Brazil’s 2018 Elections and the Strength of a Weak Campaign, Sociological Review
De Souza Santos, A. A.; (2018) Amid the furore of Brazils 2018 elections: listening for the quiet voices. Latin American Bureau
De Souza Santos, A. A.; (2018) Political Indignation, Protest and Privilege in Brazil, Sociological Review
De Souza Santos, A. A.; (2018) São Paulo’s Deadly Housing Crisis – No Solution in Sight , Urban Transformations
De Souza Santos, A. A.; (2018) Understanding the complex challenges of Brazil’s cities, Urban Transformations
De Souza Santos, A. A.; (2018) Urban informal settlements: contradiction, promise, and innovation, Oxford Urbanists
De Souza Santos, A. A.; (2017) Metropolitan health in unequal cities, Urban Transformations
De Souza Santos, A. A.; (2016) Could cultural heritage topple Brazil’s political establishment? Urban Transformations
De Souza Santos, A. A.; Keith, M.; Simcik Arese, N. (2016) How should we plan the cities of tomorrow? The Conversation
De Souza Santos, A. A.; Keith, M.; Simcik Arese, N. (2016) O que podemos dizer sobre o futuro das cidades no Brasil e no mundo? BBC Brasil
De Souza Santos, A. A. (2019) The Lancet, On Brazilian development agenda.
De Souza Santos, A. A (2019) Bloomberg news, on Bolsonaro’s Amazon controversy and his UN speech. In Portuguese Uol Noticias.
De Souza Santos, A. A (2019) Business Insider, on Amazon fires and Global outrage
De Souza Santos, A. A (2019) BBC News Brasil, on Brazilian higher education
De Souza Santos, A. A (2019) BBC News Brasil, on Brazilian politics and the country’s image abroad
De Souza Santos, A. A (2019) Radio Camara, Mulheres ainda enfrentam dificuldades de ocupacao de postos na politica e em cargos de chefia.
De Souza Santos, A. A (2019) Deutsche Welle, World Link: Brazil’s Amazon Fires
De Souza Santos, A. A (2018) BBC Radio 5, Live Breakfast
De Souza Santos, A. A (2019) Brazilian House of Commons Panel: Women leadership in local politics and women representation in public service.
De Souza Santos, A.A (2019) BBC World News
De Souza Santos, A. A (2019) TV Nova Amazonia, on Academia in Brazil and overseas
De Souza Santos, A. A (2017) Education in Brazil, panel with Fernando Haddad and Claudia Costin
Political Economy in Latin America, University of Oxford 2019
Cities and Citizenship in Latin America, University of Oxford 2020
Politics in Brazil, University of Oxford 2019
Doing Urban Ethnography, University of Oxford 2017-2020
Who decides which stories about a city are remembered? How do interpretations of the past shape a city’s present and future? In this book, I discuss notions of power and national identity by examining how nation-states negotiate the preservation of urban spaces and how a city interprets, resists, and consents to the functions and meanings that it has inherited and that it reinvents for itself. Looking at the Brazilian city of Ouro Preto, hailed as a National Monument (1930) and as one of the first generations of UNESCO World Heritage Sites (1980), I apply fine-grained ethnography and historical analysis to discuss the limits of Brazil’s imagery of social harmony and participatory democracy amid continuous inequality.
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