Publications

Books
2024 2020 2017
  • Mobilities – Migratory experiences ethnographically connected. An introduction, with Riccio, Bruno, Schwartz, Inga and Andrea Piori. New Diversities 19 (3).

Articles and Peer-reviewed Chapters
2025
2024 2022 2021 2020
2019 2018
  • Uma infraestrutura muçulmana de chegada no Rio de Janeiro. Revista Interdisciplinar da Mobilidade Humana (REMHU) 26 (52), 111–129.
2015
  • Casamançais multilingual practices: a competence, phatic communion or coping strategy? Multilingual Matters 2 (1): 67–82.
  • Conviviality. (Re-)negotiating minimal consensus, in Steven Vertovec (ed.) Routledge International Handbook of Diversity Studies, 317–324. Oxford: Routledge.
 2014
  • Are neighbours alike? Practices of conviviality in Catalonia and the Casamance, European Journal of Cultural Studies 17(4): 452–70.
  • Dealing with Diversity and Difference in Public. Traces of Casamançais Cohabitation in Catalonia?, in Stanislaw Grodz and Gina Gertrud Smith (eds.) Religion, Ethnicity and Transnational Migration between West Africa and Europe, 98–122. Leiden: Brill.
  • How and why does it matter to understand diverse urban engagements from the migrants’ perspective? MMG Working Paper 14–03.
2012
  • Fragile convivialities: everyday living together in two stateless but diverse regions, Catalonia and Casamance, COMPAS Working Paper 12–100. Co-published as MMG Working Paper 12–18.

Edited Volumes and Special Issues
2023, forthcoming
  • Normative multiplicity. Entanglements and frictions of conviviality, multinormativity and legal pluralism. Biblioteca CLACSO-Mecila. Buenos Aires: CLACSO, [with Samuel Barbosa and Osvaldo Barreneche, OA
2017
  • Mobilities, migratory experiences ethnographically connected. New Diversities 19 (3), edited with Riccio, Bruno, Schwartz, Inga and Andrea Piori (Publisher, pdf)

Other book chapters
2023, forthcoming
  • (Des)romantizando a integração. Sobre a importância da desintegração social, in Rodriguez, José Rodrigo (ed.) Metamorfoses do direito em diálogo. Londrina: THOTH.
2022
  • Heteromelancolia no Rio de Janeiro. Um suspiro das mulheres espanholas em relação aos homens cariocas [Heteromelancholia in Rio de Janeiro. A sigh of Spanish women in relation to local men], in Albiez-Wieck, Sarah et al. (eds.) Género en América Latina. Frankfurt/Madrid, Iberoamericana Vervuert.
2017
  • Perder, só perder. Vendedores senegaleses durante os jogos olímpicos no Rio de Janeiro, in João Carlos Tedesco and Giselle Kleidermacher (eds.) Imigração senegalesa na América Latina. Porto Alegre: EST Edições.
2015
  • Living with difference locally, comparing transnationally: Conviviality in Catalonia à la Casamance, in A. Gamlen, G. Liberatore, H. Neveu Kringelbach and N. Signona (eds.) Diasporas Reimagined: Spaces, practices and belonging, 41–45. Oxford: University of Oxford.

under review
  • Negão, Angolano, Africano? Sou Senegalês, Porra! Challenges to Senegalese Migration Ethics in Rio De Janeiro. [under review]
  • Forging repertoires of hierarchy, inequality, and desire in Rio de Janeiro. [under review]

Conference Papers
2023
  • Multi-sensorial repertoires of hierarchy, inequality, and desire in Rio de Janeiro, paper presented at the DGSKA Conference Contested Knowledge: Perspectives in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Ludwig Maximilian University (LMU), Munich, Germany, 28/07/2023.
2022
  • Habitar la suspensión: Migrantes transnacionales en una megalópolis bajo cierre a medias, Río de Janeiro [Dwelling in suspension. International Migrants in a megalopolis half-way in lock-down, Rio de Janeiro], paper presented at the International Workshop Los múltiples rostros de la sociedad postpandemia. Retrospectivas y prospectivas de la convivialidad, desigualdad y política en América Latina [The multiple faces of the post-pandemic society. Retrospectives and projections of conviviality, inequality and politics in Latin America], Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Instituto de Investigación en Ciencias Sociales, La Plata, Argentina, 17/11/2022.
  • Coincidence and coalition in face of division, paper presented at the 10th International Conference of CEISAL (Consejo Europeo de Investigaciones Sociales de América Latina), University of Helsinki, Finland, 13–15/06/2022.
2021
  • Novos residentes, outros olhares e práticas transformativas. Jovens africanos e europeus no Rio de Janeiro [New residents, other perspectives and transformative practices. Young Africans and Europeans in Rio de Janeiro], paper presented at the 3rd ABRE (Association of European Brasilianists) Meeting, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, 20–24/09/2021 [online]
  • Ordinary Ethics and Multinormativity. Everyday navigations of norms and values, paper at the Workshop Multinormatividade e Pluralismo Jurídico em Debate [Debating Multinormativity and Legal Pluralism], Mecila, São Paulo, 03/09/2021 [online].
  • Deromanticising integration. On the importance of convivial disintegration, paper with Dr Fran Meissner at RC21 Conference, Antwerp, 14-16/07/2021 [online]
  • Fragmented political action. Enacting multiplicity framed by coalitions among Rio de Janeiro’s migrant and non-migrant inhabitants, paper accepted at the IUAES 2020 Congress ‘Coming of Age on Earth: Legacies and Next Generation Anthropology’, Šibenik, Croatia, 03/2021.
2020
  • Performando diferenças valorizadas. Como recém-chegadxs africanxs e europexs habitam a composição urbana desigual do Rio de Janeiro [Performing valued difference. African and European newcomers inhabiting Rio de Janeiro’s unequal urban assemblage], paper accepted at Desafíos emergentes. Antropologías desde América Latina y el Caribe [Emerging challenges. Anthropologies from Latin America and the Caribbean], Montevideo, Uruguay, 23–28/11/2020 [online].
  • Reduzir a complexidade na avaliação da diferença urbana. O papel dos materiais imagéticos na familiarização com a cidade e nas narrativas de sucesso entre residentes urbanos recém-chegados [Reducing complexity in the evaluation of urbana difference. The role of visual materials in getting familiar with the city and in telling success stories among recently arrived residents], paper accepted at Saberes insubmissos: diferenças e direitos [Unsubmissive knowledges: differences and rights], 32 Brazilian Meeting of Anthropology, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 30/10/–6/11/2020 [online].
  • Mediating post/colonial strains. How coloniality permeates the relational positionality of Senegalese and Spanish newcomers in Rio de Janeiro, paper accepted at New anthropological horizons in and beyond Europe, EASA Conference, Lisbon, Portugal, 21-24/07/2020 [online].
2019
  • Hitting the end of the road? Translation as part of learning for life among Senegalese transnationals, paper presented at The End of Negotiations? GAA Conference, Konstanz, Germany, 29/9/-2/10/2019.
  • Conviviality as diasporic knowledge. Inspirations from mobile Casamance, accepted at Africa: Connections and Disruptions, European Conference on African Studies 2019, Edinburgh, UK, 11-14/06/2019.
2018 
  • Sensing valued difference in bodies and the city. Developing repertoires of hierarchy, inequality and desire in Rio de Janeiro, accepted at 18th IUAES World Congress, Florianópolis, Brazil, 16-20/07/2018.
2017
  • Demanding recognition, being recognised. Senegalese and other black identities in Rio de Janeiro, paper presented at Zugehörigkeiten: Affektive, moralische und politische Praxen in einer vernetzten Welt, DGV-Tagung, Berlin, Germany, 4-7/10/2017.
2016
  • Negão, Angolano, Africano? Sou Senegalês, Porra! Challenges to Senegalese Migration Ethics in Rio De Janeiro, paper presented at African Encounters: Mobility and Identity, at the 59th Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association, Washington, US, 1-3/12/2016.
  • Para além do conhecido. Visões e decepções de africanos recém-chegados no Rio de Janeiro, paper presented at Politicas da antropologia. Ética, diversidade e conflitos, 30st Reunião Brasileira de Antropologia, João Pessoa, Brazil, 3-6/8/2016.
  • Muslim-Queer encounters in Rio de Janeiro. West African migrants making sense of relative positionalities in Brazil, paper presented at Diversity Encounters. Intersectional and post-colonial perspectives, Humboldt-University Berlin, Germany, 24-26/05/2016.
  • Conviviality, difference and inequality, presented at New Urban Multicultures: Conviviality and Racism, Goldsmith University London, UK, 17/05/2016.
2015
  • Invited intervention at the Young Scholars Forum: Time and the City – Ethnographic Explorations of the Past, Present and Future in Contemporary Cities, Vienna Anthropology Days, University Vienna, Austria, 23-25/04/2015.
2014
  • Which questions and whose concepts? Starting from the interlocutors’ points of view, paper presented at Rupture Dynamics: Interrogating the Here and Now of Cultural Studies, Center for Advanced Studies, University of Konstanz, Germany, 26-28/06/2014.
  • Vidas (a)síncronos de migrantes. Una comparación de los procesos de estratificación social y diferenciación cultural, invited paper presented at Núcleo Interdisciplinar de Estudos Migratórios, Rio de Janeiro, 03/04/2014.
2013
  • Conviviality: conceptualising everyday living with difference from the migrants‘ perspective, paper presented at Verortungen. Ethnologie in Wissenschaft, Arbeitswelt und Öffentlichkeit, DGV-Tagung, Mainz, Germany, 2-5/10/2013.
2012
  • Casamançais multilingual practices: a competence, phatic communion or coping strategy? paper presented at Language practices, migration and labour: ethnographing economies in urban diversities, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South-Africa, 9-10/10/2012.
  • Are neighbours alike? Practices of conviviality in Catalonia and the Casamance, paper presented at Comparing Conviviality. Dreams and Realities of Living-with-Difference, Göttingen, Germany, 16-17/06/2011.
2011
  • Conviviality: a comparison of life in society between the Casamance and Catalonia, paper presented at Traces, Tidemarks and Legacies. 110th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Montréal, Canada, 16-20/11/2011.
  • Dealing with Diversity and Difference in Public. Traces of Casamançais cohabitation in Catalonia?, paper presented at Religion and ethnicity between West Africa and Europe:  A transnational feedback loop? A European Workshop, Lublin, Poland, 06-07/06/2011.
2010
  • Casamançais migrants in Catalonia: surfing cultural and religious diversities, paper presented at ASAUK Biennial Conference 2010, St Antony's College, University of Oxford, United Kingdom, 16-19/09/2010.
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