Papers by Gabriela Loureiro
Open Cultural Studies
The aim of this article is to pay tribute to Marielle Franco, a Brazilian LGBTQ+ Black activist f... more The aim of this article is to pay tribute to Marielle Franco, a Brazilian LGBTQ+ Black activist from the favela who was brutally executed in March 14, 2018. Taking Marielle’s life and death as a case study, I will demonstrate how she embodied Black feminist theory and practice and how her execution can be better addressed by situating it within the context of spatialities of race and the necropolitical governance of Rio de Janeiro.
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Queen Mary University of London, 2021
Widespread calls to ‘keep remittances moving’ during the pandemic, and the common expectation of ... more Widespread calls to ‘keep remittances moving’ during the pandemic, and the common expectation of post-Covid-19 ‘bounce-back’ illustrate the growing dependence of the international development edifice on ‘development finance’ (Kapur, 2004), while raising important questions about how well
policymakers understand these flows. Focusing upon the care and cash remittance practices of Somali, Brazilian and Indian migrants in London, our project, Connecting during Covid: Practices of care, remittance sending and digitisation, argues for a more holistic understanding of remittance sending during times of crisis.
As part of our research on remittance patterns during the pandemic, we have been examining remittance sending mechanisms. Within the context of global reports of a shift towards digitally mediated remittance sending (World Bank, 2021), in this Community Spotlight Workshop, we
addressed the following sequence of questions:
1. How/did remittance sending practices shift during Covid-19? What were the key drivers of any changes?
2. Have remitters continued to use digital payments as lockdowns have eased? Which groups have gone back to cash-based remittance sending and why?
3. What are the key barriers in the take up of digital payments? How might these be addressed?
This report presents preliminary findings from our research as well as insights from 17 representatives of migrant and third sector organisations, local policy makers, industry stakeholders and remittance senders who attended this online workshop.
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Queen Mary University of London, 2021
Our project is revealing cases where migrant women have faced hostage-like situations during the ... more Our project is revealing cases where migrant women have faced hostage-like situations during the lockdown across three communities. To gain deeper insight into this complex situation, we interviewed our Advisory Board member, Gisela Valle, and Elizabeth Jiménez-Yáñez, from LAWRS. We discussed the challenges faced by migrant women in the UK, existing policy frameworks to protect them, the impact of COVID-19, and what the community can do to help. We present key excerpts of our Q&A below.
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Queen Mary University of London, 2021
Practices of care and caring have been significantly disrupted by the Covid-19 pandemic. Migrant ... more Practices of care and caring have been significantly disrupted by the Covid-19 pandemic. Migrant communities have been particularly impacted due to an intersection of socio-economic, health and political inequalities which have deepened and accelerated during this crisis. While experiences vary across gendered, racial and class divides, particular migrant vulnerabilities are attributable to being ‘key workers’ employed in precarious jobs where ‘working from home’ is not an option; living in multigenerational households, and oftentimes crowded housing; ethnicity-related health co-morbidities and immigration status which potentially limits access to health and social services, as well as government backed economic relief packages. As such
capacities to provide care have potentially diminished even while the need for such help has escalated both within local communities and internationally, with adverse consequences for migrants and their family and kin living in countries of origin.
Our project Connecting during Covid-19 seeks to learn from, and across, diverse everyday community experiences of the pandemic; explore its local and international impacts on care and caring relations and identify and leverage opportunities for more inclusive pandemic recovery. This report presents the experiences of 18 stakeholders from migrant and third sector organisations in our first Community Spotlight Workshop, held online on 25 March 2021.
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Open Cultural Studies, 2020
The aim of this article is to pay tribute to Marielle Franco, a Brazilian LGBTQ+ Black activist f... more The aim of this article is to pay tribute to Marielle Franco, a Brazilian LGBTQ+ Black activist from the favela who was brutally executed in March 14, 2018. Taking Marielle's life and death as a case study, I will demonstrate how she embodied Black feminist theory and practice and how her execution can be better addressed by situating it within the context of spatialities of race and the necropolitical governance of Rio de Janeiro.
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Alternautas, 2019
I focus on six main problems I identified in Brazilian mainstream press outlets’ coverage of the ... more I focus on six main problems I identified in Brazilian mainstream press outlets’ coverage of the case and a seventh problem related to the media, although not perpetrated by journalists. Firstly, I will examine how there was a delay before appropriate attention was paid to Marielle’s shooting. Then, I will speak about how her criticism of the military intervention in Rio de Janeiro was rendered invisible. This is connected to my third point—the focus on how her death affects the military intervention and not the genocide of Black people by police militias, the main subject of her activism. I will then problematise how her personal life was twisted, by firstly not disclosing her queerness and then by telling her life story with a sensationalist bent and depoliticising her cause. The final points are connected to the wider problem of fake news: some media vehicles interviewed a judge who was spreading fake news about Marielle without explicitly saying that the information was false, and the production of thousands of fake news items about Marielle.
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Graduate Journal of Social Sciences, 2017
The cyberspace and its participatory culture are frequently seen as a potential place where margi... more The cyberspace and its participatory culture are frequently seen as a potential place where marginalised groups could tell their stories the way they see (Hughes, 2012). Given that Black women deal with an interlocking system of oppressions, one Black feminist in Brazil is creating new ways to deal with such oppressions in the digital sphere through the Internet nude. Raquel, a Black Brazilian woman living in Brazil who is also lesbian and fat, posts her nude on social media as a political statement about body positivity and anti-racist aesthetics. Based on a discourse analysis of an interview with Raquel about what the nude means to her, a couple of questions are raised: What are the opportunities and the limitations offered by the cyberspace to subvert social norms? What does the online backlash that Raquel suffered tell us about how the Black female body is constructed in public media in Brazil? What does her continued desire to use nude photos tell us about the potential within this act of taking nude selfies? In a time of continuous digitalisation, with the ongoing development of new medias, the ways in which these processes happen to affect socialisation and subjectivities, it is necessary to go beyond the idea that the image is merely in-formational and explore its potential for affect and transformation of perceptive and affective structures of everyday life (Hansen, 2004). New technologies give us the opportunity to rethink the relations between affect, embodiment,
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policymakers understand these flows. Focusing upon the care and cash remittance practices of Somali, Brazilian and Indian migrants in London, our project, Connecting during Covid: Practices of care, remittance sending and digitisation, argues for a more holistic understanding of remittance sending during times of crisis.
As part of our research on remittance patterns during the pandemic, we have been examining remittance sending mechanisms. Within the context of global reports of a shift towards digitally mediated remittance sending (World Bank, 2021), in this Community Spotlight Workshop, we
addressed the following sequence of questions:
1. How/did remittance sending practices shift during Covid-19? What were the key drivers of any changes?
2. Have remitters continued to use digital payments as lockdowns have eased? Which groups have gone back to cash-based remittance sending and why?
3. What are the key barriers in the take up of digital payments? How might these be addressed?
This report presents preliminary findings from our research as well as insights from 17 representatives of migrant and third sector organisations, local policy makers, industry stakeholders and remittance senders who attended this online workshop.
capacities to provide care have potentially diminished even while the need for such help has escalated both within local communities and internationally, with adverse consequences for migrants and their family and kin living in countries of origin.
Our project Connecting during Covid-19 seeks to learn from, and across, diverse everyday community experiences of the pandemic; explore its local and international impacts on care and caring relations and identify and leverage opportunities for more inclusive pandemic recovery. This report presents the experiences of 18 stakeholders from migrant and third sector organisations in our first Community Spotlight Workshop, held online on 25 March 2021.
policymakers understand these flows. Focusing upon the care and cash remittance practices of Somali, Brazilian and Indian migrants in London, our project, Connecting during Covid: Practices of care, remittance sending and digitisation, argues for a more holistic understanding of remittance sending during times of crisis.
As part of our research on remittance patterns during the pandemic, we have been examining remittance sending mechanisms. Within the context of global reports of a shift towards digitally mediated remittance sending (World Bank, 2021), in this Community Spotlight Workshop, we
addressed the following sequence of questions:
1. How/did remittance sending practices shift during Covid-19? What were the key drivers of any changes?
2. Have remitters continued to use digital payments as lockdowns have eased? Which groups have gone back to cash-based remittance sending and why?
3. What are the key barriers in the take up of digital payments? How might these be addressed?
This report presents preliminary findings from our research as well as insights from 17 representatives of migrant and third sector organisations, local policy makers, industry stakeholders and remittance senders who attended this online workshop.
capacities to provide care have potentially diminished even while the need for such help has escalated both within local communities and internationally, with adverse consequences for migrants and their family and kin living in countries of origin.
Our project Connecting during Covid-19 seeks to learn from, and across, diverse everyday community experiences of the pandemic; explore its local and international impacts on care and caring relations and identify and leverage opportunities for more inclusive pandemic recovery. This report presents the experiences of 18 stakeholders from migrant and third sector organisations in our first Community Spotlight Workshop, held online on 25 March 2021.