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Start date: Sept 2008
Proposed finish date: Sept 2012
ESRC Studentship
Working Title: The Encantado: Maroon groups, politics
and cosmology in the Brazilian Amazon
My research centres on Maroon political mobilisation and socio-cosmology
in the Brazilian Amazon. Maroons (or /Quilombos/ in Brazil) are
descendants of enslaved Afro-Americans who escaped enforced labour
regimes before the abolition of slavery in the Americas. In Brazil
they are highly politically organised groups with regional, national
and international networks. For my Phd I aim to look at how political
mobilisation is conceptualised by the Maroons themselves (rather
than the researchers who write about them) and how this connects
to broader socio-cosmological frameworks, in an attempt to critically
engage with and move beyond questions of "ethnicity" and "identity
politics".
Publications:
Sauma, Julia. 2008.'Street Encounters: betrayal and belonging in
youth gangs.' In PPR, v. 15(1), 32-35.
Sauma, Julia. 2007. 'Encontros Cartografados: Reflexões iniciais
sobre encontros entre meninos e educadores de rua.' In Cadernos
de Campo, São Paulo. Vol. 14/15.
Sauma, Julia. 2002. 'Children on the streets of Brazil.' In Edges
Magazine, London. Issue 28.
