The Global and International Studies Program would like to announce our third Works-in-Progress speaker, Dr. Lucia Cantero, whose paper “Operationalizing a Brazilian Public: Campaigns, Aesthetics, Orders” will be presented on Friday, December 4th at 12pm in Room 2420 R River Building. The discussant for this paper will be Dr. Tina Pavilos from Yale University.
All papers will be pre-circulated two weeks in advance of each paper presentation. Please register in advance using the form below in order to receive copies of discussion papers.
Mega-events are increasingly sites of transnational flows of capital that radically reconfigure notions of the public. This paper explores the role of various campaigns from the state and the market engaged in the mediation of a public in Rio de Janeiro in the face of these changes. By exposing campaigns as case studies for the construction of consumer citizens in a neoliberal Brazil, I unpack the operational structures that modify discipline, governance, and cultural policy to foster an understanding of the ways in which structural racism and inequalities are continually propagated through these specific soft infrastructures.