Gabriela de Freitas Figueiredo Rocha (7411-D498-B3FD)

Curriculum Vitae

Gabriela de Freitas Figueiredo Rocha

Gabriela de Freitas Figueiredo Rocha holds a PhD in Post-Colonialisms and Global Citizenship from the Centre for Social Studies at the University of Coimbra, Portugal (2020). She will lead the project "Europe from the "other" perspective: identity politics, struggles and counter-narratives for the construction of a society free of racism in Portugal"(2024), at the Centre for Social Studies of the University of Coimbra, approved in the last CEEC-FCT competition, still in the in the process of completion. She holds a Master's degree in Social Anthropology from the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil (2012) and a Bachelor's degree in Law from the same University (2009). She has experience with participatory research, action-research and ethnography, in the areas of human rights, urban justice, ethnicities, interculturalities and post-colonialisms. Her PhD thesis, on indigenous resistance in the Brazilian urban context, was awarded at the 12th edition of the CES Award for Young Portuguese-speaking Scientists (2021). Her main fields of work are Sociology, Anthropology and Post-Colonial Studies, with emphasis on issues such as identities, anti-racism, interculturalism and the right to difference.

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Identification

Personal identification

Full name: Gabriela de Freitas Figueiredo Rocha
Date of birth: 1985/11/19
Gender: Female

Citation names

Rocha, Gabriela

Author identifiers

Ciência ID: 7411-D498-B3FD

Email addresses

gafrochamg@gmail.com (Professional)

Telephones

Mobile phone

933723836 (Personal)

Knowledge fields

Social Sciences - Sociology - Anthropology
Social Sciences - Law

Languages

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening	Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Advanced (C1)	Proficiency (C2)	Upper intermediate (B2)
Spanish; Castilian	Advanced (C1)	Proficiency (C2)	Advanced (C1)	Proficiency (C2)	Upper intermediate (B2)
French	Intermediate (B1)	Upper intermediate (B2)	Elementary (A2)	Upper intermediate (B2)	Elementary (A2)

Education

	Degree	Classification
2013/10/03 - 2020/07/17 Concluded	Postcolonialisms and Global Citizenchip (Doutoramento) Centro de Estudos Sociais da Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal " Decolonizing difference: the trajectories of Brazilian urban indigenous in the defense of their identity and construction of an intercultural State" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	Approved unanimously, with praise and distinction
2010/03/01 - 2012/07/12 Concluded	Social Anthropology (Magister) Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais Faculdade de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas, Brazil "In the midst of the city there is a quilombo: the identity formation process of the Mangueiras quilombo in Belo Horizonte" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	Aprooved, with maximum grade
2004/08/15 - 2009/08/11 Concluded	Law (Bachelor) Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais - Faculdade de Direito, Brazil "Quilombola communities in focus: an analysis of human rights in the relationship between social emancipation and interculturality" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)

Affiliation

Science

	Category Host institution	Employer
2024/09/01 - Current	Researcher (Research)	Centro de Estudos Sociais da Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
	Centro de Estudos Sociais da Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2012/03/01 - 2013/06/01	Auxiliary Researcher (Research)	City and Alterity: Multicultural Coexistence and Urban Justice, Brazil
	Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais - Faculdade de Direito, Brazil (...)
2006/10/01 - 2008/08/01	Research Trainee (Research)	Programa Pólos de Cidadania da Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil
	Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais - Faculdade de Direito, Brazil

Teaching in Higher Education

	Category Host institution	Employer
2023/02/01 - Current	Tutor (University Teacher)	Humanas Instituto, Brazil

Others

	Category Host institution	Employer
2012/08/01 - 2013/08/01	Co-coordenator of a distance learning course about eduction in human rights	Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais - Faculdade de Direito, Brazil
	Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais - Faculdade de Direito, Brazil
2009/08/11 - 2010/12/01	Legal Technician in conflict mediation	Programa Pólos de Cidadania da Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil
	Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais - Faculdade de Direito, Brazil

Outputs

Publications

Book chapter	Rocha, Gabriela de Freitas Figueiredo. "Descolonizando uma nação: os povos indígenas brasileiros traçando caminhos da tutela à autodeterminação (Decolonizing a nation: Brazilian indigenous peoples tracing paths from guardianship to self-determination)". In Decolonizando Identidades: Pertenencia y Rechazo de/desde el Sur Global, 169-180. Granada, Spain: Instituto de Migraciones, 2017. Published
Conference paper	Rocha, Gabriela. "Para que e para quem serve a sustentabilidade urbana? Um olhar crítico sobre as novas tendências de planejamento e gestão das cidades globais.( What and who is urban sustainability for? A critical look at new trends in planning and management of global cities.)". Paper presented in I Circuit of Academic Debates of the II IPEA Development Conference, Brasília, 2011. Published Rocha, Gabriela. "Um diálogo possível entre a Etnologia e o Direito: da construção do primitivo ao fenômeno da etnicidade (A possible dialogue between Ethnology and Law: from the construction of the primitive to the phenomenon of ethnicity.)". Paper presented in XX National Meeting of CONPEDI, Belo Horizonte, 2011. Published
Journal article	Rocha, Gabriela de Freitas Figueiredo. "A construção da cidadania indígena no Brasil e suas contribuições à Teoria Crítica Racial (The construction of indigenous citizenchip in Brazil and its contributions to Critical Race Theory)". Revista Direito e Práxis 12 2 (2021): 1242-1269. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/2179-8966/2020/59762. Published • 10.1590/2179-8966/2020/59762 Rocha, Gabriela de Freitas Figueiredo. "A territorialidade quilombola ressignificando o território brasileiro: uma análise interdisciplinar (The quilombola territoriality giving new meaning to Brazilian territory: an interdisciplinary analysis)". e-cadernos CES 07 (2010): 147-162. http://dx.doi.org/10.4000/eces.417. Published • 10.4000/eces.417
Online resource	Rocha, Gabriela. Dictionary entry: "Museu".. 2024. https://permare.cargo.site/Museu. Rocha, Gabriela. "About Feminisms and Academia" ["Sobre Feminismos e a Academia"]. 2023. https://www.publico.pt/2023/07/24/opiniao/opiniao/feminismos-academia-2057855. Rocha, Gabriela. José Martí: o pensador da liberdade dos povos latinoamericanos (José Martí: the thinker of freedom for Latin American peoples). 2022. https://alice.ces.uc.pt/mestrxs/index.php?id=27696&pag=23918&entry=36610&id_lingua=2.

Activities

Oral presentation

	Presentation title	Event name Host (Event location)
2023/10/18	"Contradictions of critical academia in the figure of the oppressive critic: challenges for a feminist scientific practice"	Sociology and Law Seminar: Women in Science Federal Fluminense University (Niteroi, Brazil)
2022/07/13	Care and the City	Summer School "The Pluriverse of Eco-social Justice" (11-16 July 2022) Centro de Estudos Sociais da Universidade de Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal)
2022/02/18	"Brazil is a trap" the reinvention of Brazil	"Brasil em Coimbra" Conference Brazilian Student and Researchers in Coimbra Association (APEB) (Coimbra, Portugal)
2018/11/08	Cities as territories of indigenous resumption and decolonization of epistemological boundaries	The imagination of the future. Knowledge, experiences, alternatives. Colloquium on Tribute to Boaventura de Sousa Santos Centre for Social Studies at University of Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal)
2017/05/10	Reconstructing roots and decolonizing realities: the indigenous struggle in Brazil today	The Epistemologies of the South in the sociology of law: post-abyssal approaches to legal pluralism Centre for Social Studies at University of Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal)
2014/07/12	Identity as difference, culture as enunciation: cross-cultural translation in identity processes in light of the concept of hybridization	International Colloquium Epistemologies of the South: South-South, South- North, North-South Global Learnings Centre for Social Studies at University of Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal)
2014/06/21	Potentialities and Limits of Action Research: the experience of Polos de Cidadania Program, Brazil	Research Methods for the Epistemologies of the South Centre for Social Studies at University of Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal)
2013/06/01	"The Calon roma of São Gabriel: Territoriality, public policies, citizenship and inclusion socioeconomic"	III Seminar Rights, Research and Social Movements Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (Natal, Brazil)
2012/09/01	"The recognition and rights achievement of a quilombo in the city"	International Seminar City and Alterity - Multicultural Coexistence and Urban Justice Federal University of Minas Gerais (Belo Horizonte, Brazil)
2010/07/07	"Isidoro Urban Operation: socio-environmental conflicts in Mangueiras."	I Congress on Urban Law in Minas Gerais Federal University of Minas Gerais (Belo Horizonte, Brazil)

Event organisation

	Event name Type of event (Role)	Institution / Organization
2022/09/27 - 2022/09/27	Mediation of the Conference: The "present voices" ok Guarani-Kaiwa women on the resumption of their "territory-bodies". (2022/09/27 - 2022/09/27) Conference (Co-organisor)	Centro de Estudos Sociais da Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2021/05/17 - 2021/05/23	Transfeminist Festival of Coimbra (2021/05/17 - 2021/05/23) Festival (Co-organisor)	República Rosa Luxemburgo, Portugal
2017/06/06 - 2017/06/06	Mediation of the conference Where does so much violence lead us? Struggles and resistance of indigenous peoples of the Americas: Guarani kaiowá and other experiences (2017/06/06 - 2017/06/06) Seminar (Co-organisor)	Centro de Estudos Sociais da Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2016/10/18 - 2016/10/18	The indigenous struggle in Brazil today (2016/10/18 - 2016/10/18) Seminar (Co-organisor)	Centro de Estudos Sociais da Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2015/03/20 - 2015/03/22	Member of the Organizing Committee of the V International Colloquium of Doctoral Students of the Centre for Social Studies "Emerging Powers, Continuities and Transformations" (2015/03/20 - 2015/03/22) Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)	Centro de Estudos Sociais da Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2014/04/29 - 2014/05/09	Co-Coordination of the University Day in Support of Agrarian Reform, mobilized by the Landless Workers' Movement (MST) of Brazil (2014/04/29 - 2014/05/09) Conference (Co-organisor)	Centro de Estudos Sociais da Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal Faculdade de Economia da Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal

Event participation

	Activity description Type of event	Event name Institution / Organization
2022/11/10 - 2022/11/13	Participation on CES Winter School "Anticolonial Resistance and institutional racism" Conference	CES Winter School "Anticolonial Resistance and institutional racism" Centro de Estudos Sociais da Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal

Ad Hoc journal article review

	Journal title (ISSN)	Publisher
2021/08/01 - 2021/12/01	Forum Sociologico (2182-7427)	Centro Interdisciplinar de Ciências Sociais

Other jury / evaluation

	Activity description	Institution / Organization
2014/09/11 - 2014/09/13	Co-coordination of the Panel The emergence of other Africas? the voice of alternative philosophies, policies and institutions to hegemonic globalization in IX Iberian Congress of African Studies	Centro de Estudos Sociais da Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal

Distinctions

Award

2021	CES Award for Young Portuguese-Speaking Scientists (12th edition) Centro de Estudos Sociais da Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2010	Monograph awarded at the National Research Competition on Afro-Brazilian Culture, Traditional Communities and Afro-Latin Culture, Fundação Cultural Palmares, Ministério da Cultura, Brasil, Brazil