José Raimundo Sousa Ribeiro Junior

Visiting Scholar

José’s current research is about the relation between the deterioration of food practices (production, purchase, preparation and consumption of food) and proletarianization. The key aim is to understand the existence of hunger and various forms of deterioration of food practices, by way of an interpretation that takes into consideration the role played by critical urbanization in our society. The first moment of the research is a critical review of the literature on hunger and food and then it focuses on the need for overcoming current understandings of these phenomena based on a critique of political economy that takes into account the production of space and everyday life. To carry out this research, he has selected two areas in the city of Sao Paulo (Bras and Grajau) with the aim of understanding how spatial differences in access to food have an impact on the proletariat’s daily life and on their diet.

Participating Years

2013–2014

Remaking Worlds: Insurgencies, Revolutions, Utopias

Building on the past two years of seminars devoted to the theme of “Uprisings” the Center for Place, Culture, and Politics will focus its upcoming 2013-2014 seminar on questions of insurgencies, revolutions, and utopias. We propose to examine each of these phenomena as ongoing processes rather than as singular historical, present, or forthcoming events.