Welcome Event 23-24
CLACS Welcome Event 2023
Please join us on Thursday 7th December, 4-6pm in Armstrong Building Room G.08 to welcome new members, socialise before the Christmas break and hear about exciting new research from some of our members! We will have three presentations, followed by a Q&A and then drinks at the pub.
Speakers:
Dr Matthew Richmond (School of Geography, Politics and Society)
Variegated governance and durable conflict in São Paulo’s “Cracolândia”
São Paulo’s ‘Cracolândia’ (‘Crackland’) is perhaps the world’s largest scene of urban drug use. In the city’s historic centre, amidst residential, commercial and cultural infrastructures, an itinerant mass of over one thousand crack users congregates in public spaces and precarious housing to consume drugs and engage in micro-economic activities and intense forms of sociality. This presentation will look at how different individuals, varying according to factors of race, class and housing and work conditions, experience the area and navigate its varying challenges. It argues that to understand the persistence of Cracolândia and the conflict surrounding it, we must untangle how different social groups articulate to diverse local governance actors both within and outside the state.
Vic Riveros Schober (School of Modern Languages)
Second generation exiles of the Southern Cone of Latin America: entanglements of the afterlife of dictatorships and heritage
During the 1970s and 1980s, significant waves of people from the Southern Cone of Latin America (particularly Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay) spread around the world as the result of the right-wing dictatorships installed in the region. Trajectories of serial exile, as well as the action of human rights organisations, brought exiles to the UK (Miorelli & Piersanti, 2020). Many exiles, as well as their children and grandchildren still live in the UK, with complex relations with their heritage (Ramírez, 2012; Serpente, 2011, 2015). Understanding how they make sense of the dictatorships, exile, and current lives, is key to understanding the afterlives of the dictatorships (Jara, 2016). My project aims to deepen the understanding of the narratives these Generations After construct through collective and creative practices, and particularly, the role that creative writing can have in making sense of the past, present and future.
Dr Diogo Souza Monteiro (School of Natural and Environmental Sciences)
Food waste mitigation in Brazilian universities dining halls and retail sector: an ongoing collaboration with USP