Livia Cangiano Antipon

Visiting Scholar

Livia Cangiano Antipon (http://lattes.cnpq.br/8378003332402652) is a PhD candidate in Human Geography at the University of Campinas (Campinas /SP, Brazil). Her research focuses on Urban Political Economy, and at the intersection between urbanization and food supply in the urban networks of the Brazilian Amazon region, specifically in São Luís, the capital city of Maranhão State (Northeast Brazil). She holds an MA in Human Geography from the same university and was a visiting researcher at Food Observatory (ODELA) at the University of Barcelona as well as an exchange student at the Department of Geography, History and Social Sciences at the University of Paris VII. At CPCP, she is a PhD visiting scholar. Livia’s research is supported by the São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP), Brazil.

Participating Years

2022–2023

Revolutionary Arts

Wary of making politics an aesthetic in disguise, radical theory and practice have nevertheless embraced all kinds of artistic provocations and traditions in every form and genre. At the same time, the possibility for fundamental change demands a range of interpretive encounters that might elicit meanings for people whom Julius Scott, writing about a different time, described as “disenchanted people casting about for new options.”