Dr Mara Nogueira
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Overview
Overview
Biography
Mara is a Lecturer in Urban Geography and Director of the MA/MSc Cities Programme. She works on the cross-class politics of urban space production, with an emphasis on the (re)production of socio-spatial inequality in urban Brazil.
She joined Birkbeck in 2020, having held a fellowship previously at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Highlights
Co-Investigator in the project Engineering food: infrastructure exclusion and 'last mile' delivery in Brazilian favelas
Funded by the British Academy "Infrastructures of Wellbeing" grant
Qualifications
- PhD in Human Geography and Urban Studies, LSE, UK, 2017
- MSc in Economics, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil, 2012
- BSc in Economics, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil, 2008
Administrative responsibilities
- Recruitment lead
- Dissertation co-ordinator
Honours and awards
- Visting Fellowship, Latin America and Caribbean Centre, LSE , February 2020
ORCID
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Research
Research
Research overview
My current research looks at the relationships between the popular economy and urban space. I am interested in the multiscalar geographies and socio-political repercussions of the labour crisis. My work focuses on the encounters between the urban poor, the middle-classes and the state, exploring how those encounters shape urban space, policy making and social class.
I am also a Co-Investigator in the project ‘Engineering food: infrastructure exclusion and ‘last mile’ delivery in Brazilian favelas’ funded by the British Academy. The project is a partnership between the LSE, Birkbeck and INSPER (Brazil).
Research Centres and Institutes
- Latin America and Caribbean Centre, LSE
- Centre for Iberian and Latin American Visual Studies (CILAVS)
Research projects
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Supervision and teaching
Supervision and teaching
Supervision
Current doctoral researchers
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AVINAY YADAV
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DIMA ALHAJ HUSSEIN
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POOJA KAMALAKSHA KINI
Teaching
Module convenor
- Understanding the City (L7)
- Cities in the Global South (L6/L7)
Teaching modules
- Gender and Development (FDDV002S7)
- Cities in the Global South (Level 6) (SSGE093S6)
- Cities in the Global South (Level 7) (SSGE109S7)
- International Development and Social Justice (SSGE125S7)
- International Development and Social Justice (SSGE125S7)
- Urban Sustainability (SSGE126S7)
- Urban Sustainability (SSGE126S7)
- Critical Infrastructures for Sustainability - London Thames Fieldtrip (SSGE127S7)
- Critical Infrastructures for Sustainability - London Thames Fieldtrip (SSGE127S7)
- Crossing Borders (SSSS001S3)
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Publications
Publications
Article
- Nogueira, Mara (2023) “The Worker's Party sold out the street vendors”: Revanchist populism and the crisis of labor in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space ISSN 2399-6552.
- Hasenberger, Hannah and Nogueira, Mara (2022) Subverting the“migrant division of labor”through thetraditional retail market: the London Latin Village’s struggle against gentrification. Urban Geography ISSN 0272-3638.
- Nogueira, Mara and Shin, H.B. (2022) The “right to the city centre”: political struggles of street vendors in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. City 26 (5-6), pp. 1012-1028. ISSN 1360-4813.
- Ikemura Amaral, A. and Jones, G.A. and Nogueira, Mara (2021) When the (face)mask slips: politics, performance and crisis in urban Brazil. City 25 (3-4), pp. 235-254. ISSN 1360-4813.
- Jovchelovitch, S. and Sanguineti, M.C.D. and Nogueira, Mara and Priego-Hernández, J. (2020) Imagination and mobility in the city: porosity of borders and human development in divided urban environments. Culture & Psychology 26 (4), pp. 676-696. ISSN 1354-067X.
- Nogueira, Mara (2020) Preserving the (right kind of) city: the urban politics of the middle classes in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. Urban Studies 57 (10), pp. 2163-2180. ISSN 0042-0980.
- Nogueira, Mara (2019) Displacing Informality: Rights and Legitimacy in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 43 (3), pp. 517-534. ISSN 0309-1317.
Book Section
- Nogueira, Mara (2021) 'I voted Bolsonaro for president': street vending and the crisis of labour representation in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. In: Monteith, W. and Vicol, D.-O. and Philippa, W. (eds.) Beyond the Wage: Ordinary Work in Diverse Economies. Bristol, UK: Bristol University Press. pp. 233-253. ISBN 9781529208931.