Águas do Caju: Rethinking Urban Histories, Futures and Collective Life under Climate Change
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We are glad to invite you to a lecture by professor Mariana Cavalcanti as she visit our Department.
About the Presentation
How does climate change transform how we read, write, teach and tell urban histories? Drawing on ongoing ethnographic and documentary film research in and on the neighborhood of Caju, in Rio de Janeiro’s port region, the presentation will explore the challenges and potentials of narrating the city and its production from the perspective of its multiple waters. I will do so by elaborating the theoretical underpinnings and empirical findings of the pilot web based documentary film project Águas do Caju. This collective and collaborative project weaves together different historical narratives of how this formerly imperial elite neighborhood, squeezed between a massive complex of cemeteries, two expressways and kilometers of land reclaimed from the sea to support port logistics and infrastructure, became a metropolitan sacrifice zone.
About the Presenter
Mariana Cavalcanti is currently Tinker Visiting Professor at Columbia University. She is Associate Professor of Sociology at the Institute of Social and Political Studies of the State University of Rio de Janeiro (IESP/UERJ) where she co-coordinates the research collectives Grupo CASA: estudos sociais sobre moradia e cidade and ResiduaLab: laboratório de estudos sociais sobre resíduos. She received her PhD in Social / Cultural Anthropology from the University of Chicago in 2007, served as Professor at the School of Social Sciences and History of the Getúlio Vargas Foundation (CPDOC/FGV, 2008-15) and as Peggy Rockefeller Visiting Scholar at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University in 2020-21. Cavalcanti co-founded Casa Fluminense, a civil society association that aims to deepen democracy in Rio de Janeiro's metropolitan region in 2013, and collaborates in documentary film projects on the urban history of Rio de Janeiro.