Anne-Marie Veillette
Professor of Urban Studies.
I obtained my PhD in Urban Studies from the Urbanization Culture Society Center at the National Institute for Scientific Research (INRS) in 2022, and I was a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Latin American and Latinx Studies and the Department of Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn) from 2022 to 2024.
I am interested in peripheral urbanization in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, more specifically in the neighborhoods known as “favelas.” At the intersection of urban geography, anthropology and political science, my research explores the complex links between subaltern knowledge, socio-spatial commitments, urban violence and urbanization processes. Drawing on over a decade of research experience with women in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro and more recently in Salvador da Bahia, my current project examines these relationships through the lens of emotions and the body. It proposes a comparative analysis between the cities of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) and Mexico City (Mexico), with the aim of highlighting the way in which the coloniality of power is expressed through “affective atmospheres of terror” and the urbanization processes associated with them.
Languages: French, English, Portuguese and Spanish
Professor of Urban Studies, École des sciences de la gestion at Université du Québec à MontréalMain research areas
- Comparative ethnography
- Emotions and the body in peripheral urbanization processes
- Protection in contexts of urbicide: the body as urban infrastructure
- Bodies and experimental forms of ethnography in contexts of violence
- Subaltern thought and urban transformations
Recent research projects
Transformer la ville depuis les favelas et colonias populares : femmes et urbanisations corporelles en Amérique latine / Subvention de développement Savoir (CRSH) 2024-2026
Villes en éclosion : Femmes, favelas et transformations urbaines au Brésil / Plan de mobilisation des connaissances (FRQSC) 2024-2025
Archiving Urban Dispossession in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil / Humanities+Urbanism+Design Initiative, Mellon Foundation at the University of Pennsylvania (2022)
L’urbanité et la pensée de frontière: Comprendre les subjectivités politiques des femmes afrodescendantes dans les périphéries urbaines du Brésil / Bourse de postdoctorat (FRQSC) 2022-2024
Most recent publications
accepté. « Women and the Coloniality of Urban Atmospheres of Terror in Rio de Janeiro’s Favelas. » Environment and Planning D : Society and Space.
2024. « Women and Urban Social Movements. » Dans Handbook on Gender and Cities, sous la direction de Linda Peake, Grace Adeniyi-Ogunyankin et Anindita Datta, 172-81. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing.
2024. « Embodied Urbanizations and Amefrican Futurities: Lucia’s Epistemology. » International Journal of Urban & Regional Research. Sub 2024.
2023. « La vision, la voix et le corps pour un féminisme du bord : repenser les épistémologies féministes en science politique.» Politique et sociétés 42 (1): 111-34. Sub 2024.
2022. « Las habitantes de las favelas y el pensamiento de frontera en el contexto urbano. Una perspectiva carioca. » Dans Mujeres habitando la ciudad : Transgresiones, apropiaciones y violencias, sous la direction de Julie-Anne Boudreau et Ángela Margoth Bacca Mejía, 47-68. México: Instituto de Geografía de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.
2022. « Genrer le mythe de la marginalité, de la plantation à la favela. » Dans Marges et Marginalité au Brésil : espaces, pouvoir et société, sous la direction de Frédéric Louault, Margaux de Barros et Kevin Kermoal, 285-97. Bruxelles: Éditions de l'université de Bruxelles.
2021. « “Racialized Popular Feminism”: A Decolonial Analysis of Women’s Struggle with Police Violence in Rio de Janeiro’s Favelas. » Latin American Perspectives 48 (4): 87-104.
Website
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