"The war that never was: the mundane and the exceptional in contemporary Brazil".
- 👤 Speaker: Dr Marta Magalhães. Centre for Latin American Studies, Cambridge.
- 📅 Date & Time: Tuesday 12 May 2009, 17:30 - 19:00
- 📍 Venue: The Parlour, Peterhouse
Abstract
Dr Marta Magalhães is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre of Latin American Studies. She received her PhD in social anthropology from the University of Cambridge with a thesis on cosmopolitanism, violence and sovereignty in the city of Salvador, Brazil. Her research interests include political and legal anthropology, ethnographies of the state, social theory and political philosophy, violence, memory, psychoanalytic theory, the anthropology of cities and space
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Dr Marta Magalhães. Centre for Latin American Studies, Cambridge.
Tuesday 12 May 2009, 17:30-19:00