Title: Les politiques d’action positive qui mobilisent et qui contournent la race : la réception par les bénéficiaires en France et au Brésil
PhD Supervisor & Co-Supervisor: Graziella Moraes Silva and Veronica Toste Daflon (UFF- Brazil)
Expected completion date: 2024
My PhD project focuses on the reception of affirmative action policies by beneficiaries and potential beneficiaries in France and Brazil. I look at the outcomes and dilemmas these two models of affirmative action policies- characterized on the one side by the mobilization of ethno-racial categories and on the other by the avoidance of the language of race through the territorial criterion- create for students.
Camille Giraut holds an MA degree in anthropology and sociology from the Graduate Institute in Geneva. For her MA research, she followed processes of race and gender identification and mobilization among women in the Funk movement in Brazil through an intersectional analytical framework. She's currently a Ph.D candidate at the Graduate Institute and has been an invited scholar at Federal University of Fluminense (Brazil), in 2020 and 2021. In this context, she has been an active member of the Research group NEGRA (Núcleo de Pesquisa Guerreiro Ramos. She’s also a member of the Chair Yves Oltramare, led by Jean-François Bayart, and of the Swiss School of Latin American Studies (SSLAS). She has been a Representative of the doctoral students from the Graduate Institute for the CUSO Gender since 2020.
Peer-reviewed articles
Giraut, Camille, « From privileges to rights: changing perceptions of racial quotas in Brazil », Ethnic and Racial Studies, 2023, p. 1-24 : https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2023.2277326
Moraes Silva, Graziella; Toste Daflon, Verônica ; Giraut, Camille, « Seeing Race Like a State: Higher Education Affirmative Action Verification Commissions in Brazil », Latin American Politics and Society, 2023, p. 1-26 : https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/latin-american-politics-and-society/article/seeing-race-like-a-state-higher-education-affirmative-action-verification-commissions-in-brazil/1B4483B778260AF73537EC84A25F4861
Giraut, Camille, « Subjectivation et (afro)féminisme dans le funk carioca », in Sociétés politiques comparées, 49 (septembre/décembre 2019), p. 1 – 30 : http://www.fasopo.org/node/292
Article under review
Book chapters
Book reviews
Giraut, Camille, Recension de l’ouvrage de Talpin, J., Belgacem, S. H. ; Balazard, H. (2021), et al. L’épreuve de la discrimination: Enquête dans les quartiers populaires, Presses Universitaires de France., in L'Année sociologique 2022/1 (Vol. 72), p. e4 à e9 : https://www.cairn.info/revue-l-annee-sociologique-2022-1-page-e4.htm
Giraut, Camille, Book review of Lépinard, Éléonore. Feminist Trouble: Intersectional Politics in Post-Secular Times. Oxford University Press, USA, 2020, in TSANTSA – Journal of the Swiss Anthropological Association, 26/2021 (Dis/connection Matters: Natural, Synthetic, Digital), 238 - 240 : https://doi.org/10.36950/tsantsa.2021.26.7497
Other publications and communication in new medias
Teaching Experience
Research Experience
Professional Experience in NGOs and Associations
2016-2017 : Swiss Association Vivre Ensemble – Intern : Website management, editing and events
2015-2016 : Association Radio Larzac – Civic service : Radio broadcaster and reporter
2015 : ONG Geneva for Human Rights – Writing of reports and policy briefs during sessions of the Human Right Council, ICCPR and CEDAW.
SNF Doc.CH Grant by the Swiss National Science Foundation (2019-2023)