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Brunno Cunha

Brunno Cunha

Email: b.v.freitascunha@qmul.ac.uk

Research Topic: My PhD research examines the tensions between the design of space through urban planning practices and discourses, and the appropriation and subversion of urban space through everyday practices in Rio de Janeiro, commonly referred to as a “global city”. By studying everyday life, I hope to understand the interconnections and multiple forms of enactment of the “urban” and the “international” through ordinary and often fleeting practices and moments. I aim to employ experimental theoretical-methodological tools, such as walking, ethnography, narrative approaches, and geopoetics, to analyse how marginal spaces in an urban environment can provide new perspectives on international spatiality and the kinds of politics they put into motion.

Supervisors: Jef Huysmans; Mirko Palestrino

Research Interests: My research interests are: International Political Sociology, Critical Urban Studies, International Relations Theory, Cartography, Narrative approaches to international politics, International In/security, Power and Resistance. I am also interested in multiple modes of autonomous political composition and organisation.

Education/Professional Qualifications:

  • MA in International Relations, International Relations Institute, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio)
  • BA International Relations, Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais (PUC-Minas).

Work Experience:

Prior to joining SPIR, I was a course assistant for Professor Jimmy Casas Klausen in the module “Radical Political Thought in Latin America” within the International Relations undergraduate course at PUC-Rio. I taught parts of the sections “New World—New ‘Man’: Latin American Modernities”; “Latin American Critiques of Capitalism and/or Critiques of Latin American Capitalism”; and “New World/End of the World: Planetary Consequences of Indigenous Genocide”. Additionally, I designed assessment materials and managed marking and feedback for the module. 

I am also a member of the International Political Sociology Brazil Network (Rede IPS Brasil), in which I have helped organise several seminars and the 2024 edition of the International Political Sociology Winter School at PUC-Rio. Additionally, I am currently co-convener of the Doing IPS PhD Seminar Series (2024-2025) and Deputy Editor of Millennium: Journal of International Studies, vol. 54.

Publications:

Peer-reviewed articles

Cunha, Brunno V. F. & Mattos, M. L. V. (2024). Lendo a in/segurança internacional em lugares dissonantes: imaginários racializados no cotidiano na Lapa, Rio de Janeiro. Monções: Revista De Relações Internacionais Da UFGD, 12(24), 224–256. https://doi.org/10.30612/rmufgd.v12i24.16743

Cunha, Brunno V. F. (2023). Políticas de in/segurança na fronteira Estados Unidos-México: compreendendo a ilegalização da migração como processo político. Ideias, 14(00), 1-21. https://doi.org/10.20396/ideias.v14i00.8671621

Cunha, Brunno V. F., & Ferraz, Izabela S. (2022). Rastros e ruínas da mercantilização da natureza: o Estado e a expansão do capital na Amazônia brasileira a partir da construção da Usina Hidrelétrica de Belo Monte Revista De Ciências Do Estado, 7(2), 1–27. https://doi.org/10.35699/2525-8036.2022.36093

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