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Larissa DA SILVA ARAUJO

PhD Researcher in Anthropology and Sociology
PhD Affiliate, Gender Centre
Areas of expertise
  • Economic Anthropology
  • Systemic alternatives
  • Interculturality and Plurinacionality in the Latin American context
Geographical Region of Expertise
  • Ecuador

PhD Thesis


PhD Supervisor: Isabelle Schulte-Tenckhoff

Expected completion date: 2021-2022

Abstract:
In my PhD, developed in the department of Anthropology and Sociology, I propose a research of alternatives to capitalism with an alternative approach. In this sense, I research how the concept of sumak kawsay (translated as Buen Vivir/Good Living) emerges as alternative of life for kayambi people in Cayambe, Ecuador. This ongoing research is based on a collaborative ethnography, in which encounters of subjects of the South allows the cultivation of an ecology of knowledges. Specifically, my encounter with agroecological women, other interlocutors from different indigenous communities and the leaders from the Confederation of Kayambi People potentially enables a resignification of sumak kawsay in their daily life. My previous research focused on the struggle of afrodescendant women against the coloniality of megaevents during the FIFA World Cup in Brazil. I also have research experience with transitional justice, bioethics, gender and human rights.

Country of origin: Brazil

 

Relevant Publications and Works

 

Araujo, L.; Reis da Silva, A. (2022). JATARISHUN: revoltas indígenas camponesas do Equador e Bem Viver. Caderno CRH (Online). , v.35, p.e022004 - https://periodicos.ufba.br/index.php/crh/article/view/48460/26842 English version - JATARISHUN: indigenous peasant uprisings of Ecuador and Good Living https://periodicos.ufba.br/index.php/crh/article/view/48460/26843

Araujo, L. (2021). Prácticas cotidianas agroecológicas hacia el Sumak Kawsay. Buen Vivir en el territorio del Pueblo Kayambi - Cayambe, Ecuador In: Agroecología en los sistemas andinos.1 ed.Buenos Aires: CLACSO, p. 85-136. http://biblioteca.clacso.edu.ar/clacso/becas/20211109115528/Agroecologia-sistemas-andinos.pdf

Araujo, L. & Pueblo Kayambi (2021). ¿Convivencia en armonía? La lucha de las chakareras contra de la violencia de género. In Bidaseca, K. (et. al.) (orgs). Política Erótica de la relación – ¡sin feminismo no hay agroecología! Boletín del grupo de trabajo Epistemología del SUR, CLACSO, septiembre 2021, 29-42. https://www.clacso.org/boletin-6-poetica-erotica-de-la-relacion/

da Silva-Araujo, L.  (2016). Diferencia en campo: prácticas económicas y Amefricanidade de las Baianas de Acarajé contra FIFA. Journal of Social Economics and Cooperativa Studies. 24(109), xx-xx. doi: 10.16925/co.v24i109.1505

Araujo, L. (2020). Um estudo de caso sobre baianas de acarajé contra a FIFA: o sistema colonial moderno global visto em perspectiva. In: Menezes, R. (org.). Geopolítica, desigualdade global e desconexão forçada: as periferias no início do século XXI. Editora UnB. ISBN 978-85-230-0900-7.

Araujo, L. (2020). Baianas de Acarajé against FIFA: Coloniality Nowadays. Alternautas. Vol.7 – Issue 1. ISSN - 2057-4924

 

Academic Work Experience

 

Teaching Experience

Teaching Assistant at the Graduate Institute for the following courses:
2018 (ANSO096) - Screening the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Competing and Complementary Narratives Through Cinematic Representations

2018 (DE156) - Elites and Inequalities

2018 and 2020 (DE132) - History, Theory and Practice of Development

2018 (DE139) - Gender and Development: From Theory to Practice

2019 (MINT160) - Social Inquiry and Qualitative Research for International Affairs and Development

2021 (MINT 007) - Economic Development of Resource-Rich Countries

2021 (MINT 125) - Agrarian Transformation and Mobilisation: Land, Labour and Technology

 

FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS AND AWARDS

 

CLACSO and McKnight Foundation fellowship

 

AFFILIATIONS 

 

Gender Centre

 

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