Elis de Aquino
International Research Training Group 'Temporalities of Future in Latin America'
PhD Candidate
Sociology
Project: "The Road to Success: Mechanisms of Social Mobility and Individual Strategies of the Poor in Brazil"
14195 Berlin
Education
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Since 05/2019 |
PhD Candidate, International Research Training Group ‘Temporalities of Future’ |
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09/2017 – 09/2018 |
Pre-PhD, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris |
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09/2014 – 09/2017 |
Master in Sociology, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris |
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09/2013 – 09/2014 |
Bachelor in Sociology, Université Paris, Diderot |
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05/2009 – 07/2013 |
Bachelor in Communication/Journalism, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, B.A. |
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04/2012 – 03/2013 |
Junior Research Assistant, Escola de Comunicação, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (FAPERJ Scholarship) |
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04/2010 – 09/2011 |
Student Assistant, SOLTEC, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (PIBEX Scholarship) |
Work Experience
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Since 05/2019 |
Researcher, International Research Training Group ‘Temporalities of Future’, Berlin |
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Since 06/2020 |
Editor, Critical Reviews on Latin American Research |
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09/2018 – 04/2019 |
Junior Consultant, International Institut for Educational Planning, UNESCO, Paris |
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11/2017 – 05/2018 |
Internship, International Institut for Educational Planning, UNESCO, Paris |
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03/2016 – 12/2019 |
Volunteer, Association of Brazilian Researchers and Students in Paris (APEB-FR), Paris |
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10/2015 – 01/2017 |
Volunteer Teacher of Sociology, Association Philotechnique, Paris |
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01/2012 – 06/2013 |
Internship, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Rio de Janeiro |
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09/2011 – 01/2012 |
Internship, José Bonifacio Foundation, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro |
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12/2009 – 03/2010 |
Internship, Newspaper DESTAK Rio de Janeiro |
Project: "The Road to Success: Mechanisms of Social Mobility and Individual Strategies of the Poor in Brazil"
Supervisor:
Prof. Dr. Sérgio Costa, Freie Universität Berlin
This Ph.D. project aims to identify and analyze what mechanisms participate, contributing or hindering, to social mobility trajectories of people from popular class in Brazil. To answer this question, I intend to examine the role played by education in enhancing the chances of the poor to access better living conditions. Secondly, I will investigate to what extent the constructions and dissolutions of social bonds can work or not as a support for those who are in search of mobility. Thus, I will analyze the impact of social mobility on the network of social relationships. I intend to conduct ethnographic research, based on observations and biographical interviews with women and men, aged 24 to 64 years, originally from popular classes but who have experienced upward social mobility. This research will be carried out in the Baixada Fluminense, a region located in the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Though little studied in the Brazilian social sciences, this area stands as an example of the pattern observed throughout the country, that is, the persistence of inequalities even in the context of economic growth. In this sense, this study case can enable us to study the entanglement of inequalities from the local level, to the national, the regional (Latin America) and to the global level
Articles
De Aquino, Elis and Kliche, Luis. (2021): “Nobody has the answer, but we need some map, even to go into the unknown”: A Conversation with Arjun Appadurai on Research, Speculation and Future Thinking. Critical Reviews on Latin American Research, 9(1), 18–26. https://www.crolar.org/index.php/crolar/article/view/382
De Aquino, Elis (2020): "Réformer l’école pour transformer la société. L’éducation territorialisée de jeunes et adultes dans la favela de Manguinhos", Cahiers de la recherche sur l’éducation et les savoirs, 19 | 2020. Retrieved from: http://journals.openedition.org/cres/5046, accessed 21 January 2021.
De Aquino, Elis et. al. (2016): "La mixité sociale, ça peut être tout et n’importe quoi! » Retour sur une enquête collective à l’Ile-Saint-Denis", Working Papers de l’OUSCIPO, EHESS. Retrieved from: http://ouscipo.ehess.fr/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Mixité-sociale_Article-collectif-1.pdf, accessed 28 Mar. 2019.
