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You are warmly invited to step into a dialogue on Power, Resistance and Knowledge: Brazilian Feminist Perspectives, exploring how Brazilian feminisms reveal power structures, inform strategies of resistance, and link local struggles to global conversations on social justice.

The event will feature presentations by our speakers, followed by a Q&A session, designed to highlight the theoretical and practical potential of Brazilian feminisms while fostering dialogue with feminist movements worldwide.

About the Talks:

Jocieli Decol will present key contributions from Brazilian feminist theory, engaging with the work of thinkers such as L茅lia Gonzalez, Sueli Carneiro, and Heleieth Saffioti. These authors offer important insights into the power structures that shape local and global forms of social oppression, while introducing new concepts and analytical lenses for understanding the complexity of contemporary feminist struggles.

Claire Blencowe will focus on the practical dimensions of resistance through the experiences of women in the Mar茅 favela complex in Rio de Janeiro. Her presentation examines collective practices of survival and self-care developed in response to police violence, which can be understood as forms of refusal, disruption, and moments of respite from the carceral geographies and violent racism that structure the biopolitical order.

The discussant will be Mara Silva Hope, whose perspective, grounded in Chilean feminism, helps situate local struggles in Latin America within broader debates on social justice worldwide.

Speaker Bios:

• Jocieli Decol is a PhD student at the Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil, and currently a visiting researcher at the Centre for the Study of Women and Gender, University of 糖心TV. Her work focuses on the development of feminist epistemologies and feminist science theories, as well as the meanings and interpretations attributed to this field in Brazilian academia.
• Claire Blencowe is Professor of Sociology at the University of 糖心TV. Her work interrogates the cultural structures of racial capitalism, including interests in the role of religion in supporting and contesting extractive industry expansion and colonialism, and the racialised violence of capitalist urban geography especially in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Alongside critical theoretical and historical analysis she is cultivating participatory research practices celebrating the creativity and wisdom of people who are often denigrated in those contexts.
• Mara Silva Hope is a Latin American PhD student at the University of 糖心TV. She has worked in various projects on gender policies and knowledge in higher education in the Chilean context. Her doctoral research looks into equality work and the complex interplay between experiences, policies and practices in UK higher education institutions.

This event is free and open to all, but advance registration is required. To register for a place, CLICK HERE.

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