Thiago Pinto Barbosa
Research Fellow from January 2017 until September 2019.
Research Project: »Race« and Science between Berlin and India: the Circulation and Transformation of Racialized Knowledge by anthropologist Irawati Karvé
Positions
Degree/ Education
Publications
Barbosa, Thiago Pinto; Brown, Owen; Kirchner, Julia; Mundle, Lili; Schreurer, Julia. 2016. Manufacturing Race: Contemporary Memories of a Building’s Colonial Past. A virtual exhibition available at: www.manufacturingrace.org
2019. Making Human Differences in Berlin and Maharashtra: Considerations on the Production of Physical Anthropological Knowledge by Irawati Karvé. South Asia Chronicle 8(1): 61-93.
With Rivera, Manuel; Mena, Francisca; Paredes, Mariela; Morales, Milena. 2018. Experiencia estética y desarrollo sostenible: Un estudio de caso. [Aesthetic experience and sustainable development. A case study.] Revista de la Academia 26 (0): 80–113.
With Owen Brown, Julia Kirchner, and Julia Scheurer. 2018. Remembering the Anthropological Making of Race in Today’s University: An analysis of a student's memorial project in Berlin. Etnofoor 30 (2): 29–48.
Brasil, F.; Carneiro, R.; Almeida, Mariana. Participação, Desenho Institucional e Alcances Democráticos: uma análise do Conselho das Cidades (ConCidades). Revista de Sociologia e Política (UFPR. Impresso), 2013.
Carneiro, R. ; Brasil, F. P. D.; Franca, B. C.; 2010. ‘Território, Exclusão e Políticas de inclusão socioespacial: uma análise a partir da experiência de Belo Horizonte’. Ser Social (UnB), 12 (27): 145-164.
Carneiro, R. ; Brasil, F.P.D.; Almeida, M. E.; 2011. Política de Habitação de Interesse Social e Instituições Participativas a partir de municípios da RMBH. Administração Pública e Gestão Social 13: 399-420.
Carneiro, R. ; Souza, José Moreira de ; Brasil, F.P.D ; 2010. Habitação de Interesse Social: considerações a partir da experiência de Belo Horizonte. Revista AVAL - Avaliação de Políticas Públicas.
Capanema Álvares, L. ; Bessa, A.; Simão, K.M.C. 2016. Attracting international tourism through mega-events and the birth of a conflict culture in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. In: Colomb, C. & Novy, Joahanes, ed. Protest and Resistant in the Tourist City. London: Routledge.
Talks
2019. Transnational routes and knowledge transformation in the intersection of anthropology and genetics: "race", "caste" and "tribes" in German-Indian connections (1927-1970). Meeting of the International Society for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Biology. Oslo, Jul. 2019.
2018. Following science making in entangled archives: considerations from an actor-network approach to understanding global entanglements in anthropological knowledge production. Conference “Modern India in German Archives”. Berlin, Oct. 2018.
2018. From Boundary to Folded: the Spatial/Temporal Movements of Anthropometric Measurement Technologies and the Interfolding of “Race” and “Caste”. Conference of the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S). Sydney, Sept. 2018.
2018. Circulating technologies, humans and human remains: grasping the transformation of racialized knowledge across time and space. Symposium “Spaces of Circulation and Colonial/Imperial Landscapes” at the 8th European Society for the History of Science. London, Sept. 2018.
2018. Moving race from Europe to elsewhere: the circulation of race as a scientific object from Germany to India and the racialization of other difference categories. 15th EASA Biennial Conference. Stockholm, Aug. 2018.
2018. Claiming differences and sameness through “race”: translating racialized knowledge. Young South Asia Scholars Meet. Zurich, Jun. 2018.
2017. "The (un)making of human difference through “race”: an analysis of Indian anthropologist Irawati Karvé’s techno-scientific praxis and its networks in/from Berlin, 1928-1970". Conference: ‘New Man’ in Africa, Asia and the Middle East: Practices, Networks and Mobilization, c. 1910-1960. Berlin, ZMO, 27-29/09/2017.
2017. Analyzing “race” as a scientific object: circulating "race" through time (1927-1970) and space (Berlin-Pune). Conference of the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S). Boston, 30/08 - 02/09/2017.
2017. "Circulating race research technologies in and between Germany and India: an analysis of the use of anthropometric measurement devices in Irawati Karvé`s (1905-1970) techno-scientific praxis". Conference: Mo(u)vemenet - Canadian Anthropology Association/International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences. University of Ottawa, Ottawa (Canada), 2-5/5/2017.
2013 Informal settlements, mega events and conflict: a case study from pre-2014 Brazil. In: International Sociology Association - RC21 Conference “Resourceful cities”. Berlin, Aug. 2013.
Capanema Álvares, L. ; Bessa, A.; “Attracting international tourism trough megaevents and the birth of a conflictual culture in Belo Horizonte.” In: International Sociology Association - RC21 Conference “Resourceful cities”. Berlin, 2013.
Capanema Álvares, L. ; Bessa, A.; 2012. “Empresariamento da cidade e geração de conflitos: as várias faces da Copa 2014 em Belo Horizonte.” In: III Encontro ETTERN – Globalização, Políticas Territoriais e Conflitos Sociais. Vassouras.
Carneiro, R.; Brasil, F. P. D.; Franca, B. C.; Almeida, Mariana. 2010. “Instâncias locais de participação nas políticas urbanas: enquadramentos legais e desenhos institucionais.” In: 1º Congresso Mineiro de Direito Urbanístico. Belo Horizonte.
Media Articles
Teaching Activities
Awards
Memberships
- Society for Social Studies of Science
- European Association of Social Anthropology (EASA)
- EASA Network Anthropology of Race and Ethnicity
- International Society for History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Biology
Languages
- Portuguese: native speaker
- German: full fluency (C2)
- English: full fluency (C2)
- Spanish: full fluency (C2)
- French: upper intermediate level (B2)
- Marathi: basic (A1)