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Notes on Contributors

      Renato Anelli is Professor in the post graduate program for urbanism at FAU Mackenzie and researcher at CNPq, where he is involved in the project Infrastructure Networks as Urban Strategy. An urban architect (FAU PUCC), with a Masters in architectural and urban history (FAU USP, 1995) and was full professor in the Architecture and Urbanization programme at The University of São Paulo – São Carlos between 1986 and 2021. He has been a visiting researcher and professor at Columbia University – New York (2016), HafenCity Universität (Hamburg) from 2013 to 2017 and at the University of Texas – Austin in 2013. Renato was also Secretary of Municipal Works, Transportation and Public Services (2001–2004), a member of the Commission for the Coordination of the Plan for São Carlos (2002–2004) and President of the Council for Urban development of São Carlos (2011–2013). He has been advisor for the Lina Bo Bardi Glass House since 2006 and was responsible for the Conservation Plan from 2016 to 2020. Renato was also advisor at the IAB SP in Condephaat (2019–2021).

Marina Capusso graduated in Social Sciences at the University of São Paulo, after having studied in state schools. She currently works training basic education to teachers and occasionally writes on topics she deems important. Marina and her co-author here Matheus Preis were part of different generations of Movimento Passe Livre (Free Fare Movement in São Paulo). They agreed to write the chapter published in this collection, with the consent of MPL-SP activists at the time, after an invitation made by the organizers to the movement in 2015.

      Marilena Chaui is a renowned Brazilian Philosopher and Professor of Political Philosophy and History of Modern Philosophy at the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. She is a well-known scholar of Baruch Spinoza and Maurice Merleau Ponty and author of a number of books including the best-selling O que é Ideologia? (2002). Chaui served as Municipal Secretary of Culture of São Paulo, from 1989 to 1992.

      Maite Conde is Professor in Brazilian Studies and Visual Culture at The University of Cambridge and Fellow of Jesus College Cambridge. She has written numerous articles on Brazilian culture and society and is the author of Consuming Visions. Cinema, Writing and Modernity in Rio de Janeiro (2011) and Foundational Films: Early Cinema and Modernity in Brazil (2018), winner of the 2019 Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize for outstanding book published in English or Spanish in the field of Latin American and Spanish literatures and cultures.

      Pedro Erber is Associate Professor at the School of International Liberal Arts and the Graduate School of International Communication Studies, Waseda University. Before joining Waseda in 2019, Erber was Associate Professor of Romance Studies and Director of the East Asia Program at Cornell University. He holds a PhD in Japanese Literature from Cornell University, an MA in Philosophy from PUC-Rio de Janeiro, and a BA in Philosophy from Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. He is the author of Breaching the Frame: The Rise of Contemporary Art in Brazil and Japan (2014), Politics and Truth: Martin Heidegger’s Political Philosophy (2004), and numerous articles, catalogue essays, edited volumes, and translations.

Francisco Foot Hardman is Professor of Literature and Other Forms of Cultural Production at the Institute for the Study of Languages at UNICAMP in the state of São Paulo, where he has taught since 1987. He has been visiting professor/researcher in a number of national and international universities, such as University of California – Berkley, University of Texas – Austin, Freie Universität Berlin, the University of Roma La Sapienza, Maison de Sciences de l’Homme (Paris) and Peking University. He is the author of numerous books, amongst them Nem Pátria Nem Patrão: Memória Operária no Brasil (1983), A vingança da Hileia: Euclides da Cunha, a Amazônia e a literatura moderna (2009) and Meu diário da China: a China atual aos olhos de um brasileiro. In 2019, he edited of the collection of poems Ai Qing: Viagem à América do Sul, which was translated in collaboration with Fan Xing and was awarded a prize by the Brazilian Association of University Publishers.

      Ana Paula Koury is Professor in the postgraduate programme of architecture and urbanism at the University of São Judas and in the Masters programme in Civil Engineering at the Mackenzie Presbyterian University. She has a postdoctoral degree from the Institute of Brazilian Studies at the University of São Paulo and in 2016 was a visiting professor at the Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture, CUNY. She is on the management committee of the Klimapolis Laboratory (IAG-USP/IMP) and coordinates the Itaim Paulista Laboratory, an extension project that involves the university and the local public. She is also part of the committee of the Journal of Urban Technology and Sustainability.

      Mariana Lamego is Associate Professor in the Department of Human Geography at Rio de Janeiro State University. She is the coordinator of the Centre for Studies and Research on Space and Culture (NEPEC/UERJ).

      Marianna Olinger is a Brazilian interdisciplinary artist, researcher, and human rights activist with 20 years experience organizing and training courses on gender equality, violence prevention, gun control, drug policies, and urban planning. She has led campaigns for national coalitions in Brazil, and has collaborated in the development of advocacy and media campaigns in Brazil and other countries in Latin America. Throughout her career, Marianna has worked closely with over two dozen organizations, governments, international agencies and social movements. Since 2014 she has been based in New York and works as an independent consultant, researcher, and educator, in addition to working on her own creative projects.

      Matheus Preis graduated in Social Sciences from the University of São Paulo, and completed a Masters in Sociology at UNICAMP. He is the developer of a web-application and database for the Observatory of Police Violence and Human Rights.

      André Reyes Novaes is Associate Professor in the Department of Geography at Rio de Janeiro State University. He is currently Honorary Research Associate in the Department of Geography at Royal Holloway University of London and a member of the Commission for the History of Geography of the International Geographical Union. His research interests include visual methods, history of cartography, popular geopolitics, and history of South American borders.

Alfredo Saad-Filho is Professor of Political Economy and International Development, and Head of the Department of International Development at King’s College London. Previously, he was Professor of Political Economy at SOAS University of London, and Senior Economic Affairs Officer at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development. He has published extensively on the political economy of development, industrial policy, neoliberalism, democracy, alternative economic policies, Latin American political and economic development, inflation and stabilization, and the labour theory of value and its applications.

      Lisa Shaw is a freelance translator of Portuguese to English texts, and works regularly for Brazilian publishers and literary agents, including Companhia das Letras and Agência Riff, as well as cultural organizations and academics. She is Professor of Brazilian Studies at the University of Liverpool and author of various books including Tropical Travels: Brazilian Popular Performance, Transnational Encounters and the Construction of Race and scholarly articles in leading journals.

      Barbara Szaniecki is Adjunct Professor in the Escola Superior de Desenho Industrial (ESDI – School of Industrial Design) at the Rio de Janeiro State University. He has a PhD in Visual Communications École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs and a Masters and doctoral degree from the Pontificia Universidade Catolica, Rio de Janeiro. She has extensive experience in the field of graphic design. She is a researcher at the Design and СКАЧАТЬ