political economy + development + finance + political mobilization + water + gender

I am a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Business and Society at Queen Mary University of London studying the political economy of sustainable development.

My work engages three core issues: (1) the politics of market-making and public-private relations in global South contexts; (2) financialization and the politics of finance; (3) forms of social mobilization and participatory forms of knowledge production. I explore these issues in the realms of infrastructures like urban water provision and data production, impact investing in socio-ecological projects, and gender politics.

Projects

Latest

“Securing financial returns in politically uncertain worlds: Finance and urban water politics in Brazil”, EPC: Politics and Space

“Elusive Boundaries: The politics of public-private relations in Brazilian water provision,” Phenomenal World

“Data Activism Against Feminicide,” Research Insights Brief

I am a member of the Centre on Labour, Sustainability and Global Production (CLaSP) at QMUL and co-edit the CLaSP Blog. I am also a research affiliate with the Data + Feminism Lab and the City Infrastructure Equity Lab (CIEL) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Previously, I was a research fellow at the Institute for Applied Economic Research in Brazil, where I worked on projects on democratic institutions and public participation.

I hold a PhD in Political Economy, Development and Planning (‘22) and a Master in City Planning (‘16) from MIT, and a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science from the University of Brasília. At MIT, I was a member of MIT Water and also co-edited the 14th edition of the journal Projections (MIT Press): "New uses for old rivers."