Title: Feminist Movements in Rural Areas in Brazil and International Food Governance: Taking the Ground into Account
PhD Supervisor: Elisabeth Prügl
Expected completion date: 2024
Carolina’s PhD research investigates how peasant women’s movements in Brazil engage transnationally with other social and feminist movements to negotiate political voice for peasants in international food governance, particularly in the context of the Committee on World Food Security. She draws on feminist methodology to explore the political agency of rural women involved in this process and to demonstrate how they are breaking the local/global dichotomy of the transnational political space.
Carolina holds a Bachelor in International Relations from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio) and a Master in International Political Economy from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). She is current a PhD candidate at the International Relations and Political Science Department and an Affiliate Member to the Gender Centre at the Graduate Institute.
Research Experience
Research Fellow for the "Global Health Diplomacy: An Explanatory Multi-Case Study of the Integration of Health into Foreign Policy - Brazil, Canada, Mexico and Chile", financed by the Ottawa University and coordinated in Brazil by the National School of Public Health (ENSP) at the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz).