Rosana Pinheiro-Machado, an anthropologist, is a Professor of Global Studies at University College Dublin (UCD), Ireland. She is the Director of the Digital Economy and Extreme Politics Lab (DeepLab) and the Principal Investigator of the European Research Council- funded project Flexible Work, Rigid Politics in Brazil, India, and the Philippines. Her ethnographic research explores the intersection of reactionary politics and precariousness in the emerging economies of the Global South.
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The Digital Disembedding of Informal Workers and the Road to the Far-Right
Camelódromo da Praça XV (Porto Alegre, Brazil) was a large street market that thrived at the turn of the century, selling cheap goods or small counterfeits. Soc... More
Anthropology in Times of Hatred Politics
In times of democratic crisis, despair, and hopelessness in Brazil, what answers can we grasp from anthropological and on-the-ground ethnographic knowledge? In ... More
Paradoxes of Development: Why Now?
In 2009, the cover of The Economist magazine featured the headline, “Brazil takes off.” After the protests, four years later, the magazine asked: “Has Brazil bl... More
The Protests in Brazil
What exactly happened in Brazil during June and July, 2013? What started as a protest over an increase in bus fares grew into something much larger, with rallie... More
Protesting Democracy in Brazil
What exactly happened in Brazil during June and July, 2013? What started as a protest over an increase in bus fares grew into something much larger, with rallie... More