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- Patricia Lorenzoni
Patricia Lorenzoni
Researcher
About
Ph. D. in History of Ideas 2007, with the dissertation: Travelling Under the Sign of Death: Frazer, the Empire and the Vanishing Savage.
- 2008-1010 postdoc funded by Hilding Svahn’s foundation for Latin American Studies.
- 2007-2010 Assistant professor at Kristianstad University College.
- Since 2010 researcher at School of Global Studies, through the research program Time, Memory, Representation: Transformations in Historical Consciousness, funded by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond.
Areas of interest
I am currently doing research on notions of nation, sovereignty and the political in disputes regarding indigneous peoples’ rights to land in Brazil. The study is part of the multidiciplinary program Time, Memory, Representation, founded by The Bank of Sweden Tercentennary Donation. My research interests include colonialism, historiography, political philosophy and post-colonial theory.
Current research
Currently I am working on a project on the role of the índio in Brazilian national imaginary, and the relationship between notions of people, nation and territory. The project, which is part of the larger research program Time, Memory, Representation, looks into how the figure of the índio as the origin of the nation has been used as a tool to expel the índio out to history and marginalize contemporary indigenous populations. However, I also explore how the same figure is today appropriated as part of mobilization around indigenous right to land and resistance against settler colonialism.
Teaching and tutoring
I teach on, among other things, colonialism, postcolonial theory, Latin America.
Together with Jan Johansson I am responsible for the Museion course “Identities”.
Publications
2011
- Patricia Lorenzoni (2011).
Bekänna färg: Om raskvoter i Brasilien , GUP 153079
- Patricia Lorenzoni (2011).
Bortbytingar: Om troll, utlandsadoption och den koloniala praktiken att ta de andras barn , GUP 153080
- Patricia Lorenzoni (2011).
Claiming Makunaima: Colonisation, Nation, and History in the Northern Amazon , GUP 153077
2010
- Maj-Lis Follér; Patricia Lorenzoni (2010).
ANALES. Brazil: The Politics of Exclusion and Inclusion , GUP 139496
- Maj-Lis Follér; Patricia Lorenzoni (2010).
Introduction 2000-1223, GUP 139492
- Patricia Lorenzoni (2010).
To Re-member the índio in Brasília and Boa Vista: A Reflection on Two Urban Monuments 2000-1223, GUP 140019
2009
- Patricia Lorenzoni (2009).
Hanteringen av döda , GUP 106772
- Patricia Lorenzoni (2009).
Violence and Sacrifice in Evolutionary Anthropology: A Reading of J. G. Frazer’s The Golden Bough through Theology of Liberation , GUP 101279
2008
- Patricia Lorenzoni (2008).
Att färdas under dödens tecken: Frazer, imperiet och den försvinnande vilden , GUP 87775
- Patricia Lorenzoni (2008).
Islam och den svarte mannens börda: Edward Blyden om Afrika , GUP 87803
2007
- Patricia Lorenzoni (2007).
Att färdas under dödens tecken: Frazer, imperiet och den försvinnande vilden , GUP 58154
2006
- Patricia Lorenzoni (2006).
Mormor är inte kannibal 0283-2798, GUP 33621
2005
- Patricia Lorenzoni (2005).
'Understanding the past to speak the present': Imperial anthropology and critical historiography 0347-5794, GUP 33622
- Patricia Lorenzoni (2005).
Vit som jag 0030-4492, GUP 31629
2004
- Patricia Lorenzoni (2004).
Att offra den andre för hans frihet: Occidental universalism och befrielse genom erövring , GUP 33623
- Patricia Lorenzoni (2004).
Mänskliga kvarlevor och levande döda: Om att visa vildar som vetenskap och som spektakel 0283-2798, GUP 33624
- Patricia Lorenzoni (2004).
Var har du ditt modersmål? 1104-5205, GUP 33627
2003
- Patricia Lorenzoni (2003).
Antropologerna och de utställda vildarna: 'Billy', 'Jenny' och 'Little Toby' 1400-4496, GUP 33625
2002
- Patricia Lorenzoni (2002).
Finns det en människa för Brasilia? 0283-2798, GUP 33626