- in search of life’s full adventure -
My academic education began at the Brazilian Naval College. I later enrolled in a History programme at the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, which I interrupted when I left Brazil in search of new challenges. During this period, I undertook a range of temporary jobs in different countries, both to support my travels and to broaden my practical and cultural experience.
I, then, returned to academia and completed an MA in Applied Linguistics at Cardiff University, graduating with Distinction. This qualification led me to teach English for business and academic purposes, as well as to lecture in business communication and cross-cultural communication in Brazil, Europe, and China. I, then, did an MBA in Public Administration at Damasio de Jesus School of Law focused on state reform in Brazil; and earned a BSc in Economics from the Universidade do Sul de Santa Catarina – with a dissertation on Brazil’s regressive taxation system, which received an academic prize from the Regional Council of Economics. In addition, I completed a postgraduate specialisation in Accounting and Audit at the Universidade do Oeste Paulista, receiving a 10/10 mark for its dissertation; and obtained an MRes in Administration from the Universidade Federal de Uberlândia (UFU), focusing on restaurant management, organisational culture, and the sociology of food.
In parallel, I developed a sustained interest in Brazil’s historical inequalities and its processes of nation- and state-building. My research, then, drew on multiple methodologies, including ethnography, discourse analysis, storytelling, econometrics, and inferential statistics. This interest was partly shaped by my personal experience working in Brazilian fine-dining professional kitchens, which informed my MRes dissertation examining how their urban, organisational, and socioeconomic contexts reproduce longstanding historical inequalities.
Subsequently, I started to work on a PhD project on politics and economics, first at FGV, then at VU Amsterdam, and finally at UFU. In 2021, I presented a paper at the annual conference of the International Society of Public Law (ICON-S), analysing the use of Brazil’s 1983 National Security Act by the then far-right government as an instrument of political censorship during the Covid-19 pandemic. My project – then examining Brazil’s military tradition of political interference in comparison with the “Bundeswehr’s Innere Führung” doctrine implemented during West Germany’s post-war transitional justice period – was later accepted with full marks by the board of examiners into the PhD programme in Organisation Studies at UFU, but ultimately interrupted due to lack of research funding..
The articles and presentations that follow represent an effort to organise, assess, and integrate my academic production.
01. Copernicus, Kepler, and Newton: Banville's novels and constitutional changes in the digital age
Article on philosophy of science and constitutional law presented at the International Colloquium on Law and Literature, RDL, Universidade de Brasília, Brazil.
02. The Innere Führung concept in the institutional reform of military organizations and the rule of law in Brazil
PhD project, School of Management and Business, Universidade Federal de Uberlândia, Brazil.
03. Medieval kitchen, foodscape, and craft: Social and political imageries from two Brazilian organizations
Article on sociology of food, organisation studies and society presented at the USP Conference on Administration, SemeAd; and accepted subject to revisions by the RAE journal on 23/11/22.
04. A national security act, a constitution, and an unburied past in Brazil
Article on Brazilian politics based on history, constitutional law, and political theory presented at the International Society of Public Law Conference, ICON-S, 2021, online.
05. Cidades globais: Uma perspectiva para o contexto urbano das organizações
Article on sociology of cities and organisation studies from a “post-modernist” perspective of their contemporary contexts published as a book chapter.
06. Foodscape: Trabalho, lazer, suor e prazer no caldeirão agridoce
Post on sociology of food and labour relations published on Nuevo Blog of the Núcleo de Estudos da Violência Organizacional.
07. Uncivilised strangers: Mapping patterns of online incivility
Translation, revision, and edition of an article by Costa, Borges, and Medeiros (FAGEN/UFU), using discourse analysis and netnography on online incivility in the 2018 presidential election in Brazil on Facebook.
08. Sweet & sour: Postcolonial professional kitchens in the postmodernity
The article studies how Brazilian historical inequalities are replicated in such organisations’ workplace, and how fine-dining culture and labour relations in this market operate as instruments of distinction and obstacles to social, economic, and political equality in the local society.
09. The anatomy of a corporate crime in the discourses of Veja and Carta Capital on the collapse of the Samarco dam
Article using discourse analysis on social responsibility, governance and media repercussion related to the Mariana environmental disaster, at first, presented and published in the annals of the National Conference of Postgraduate Programmes and Research on Administration, Brazil, and, later, expanded and published in the RCA Journal of Administrative Sciences.
10. Global cities: A perspective on fine-dining restaurants’ urban context
Article on sociology of food and cities, fine-dining restaurant business, and organisation studies presented at the National Conference of Postgraduate Programmes and Research on Administration, Brazil.
11. Tributação & desigualdade: Um estudo do impacto do ICMS sobre a renda na cidade de Uberlândia
Dissertation on economics analysing the impact of Brazil’s regressive tax system on income distribution in the city of Uberlandia based on econometric analysis, sociology, political theory and law.
12. “Medieval Kitchen”: Regionality & postmodernity in a fine-dining restaurant in a global city
MRes Dissertation on organisation studies and sociology of food through an ethnographic study of professional kitchens of fine-dining restaurants in Brazil drawing considerations about Brazil's historical inequalities and organisational culture.
13. Disciplinary integration in management programmes in higher education institutions in Uberlandia’s region of influence
Article based on a survey and interviews with programme co-ordinators on multi/inter/transdisciplinarity in management education, at first, presented in the Red de Posgrados de Investigación Latinos en Administración y Estudios Organizacionales Conference, Chile, and, later, published as a book chapter.
14. Society 4.0: An essay on the modernity failure, sharing economy, and neoliberal fog
Article on sociology of digital culture, social media, online business, and economics presented at the Digital Cultures International Conference, Germany.
15. The business of food & eating: the postcolonial foodscape of MasterChef Brazil, social deconstruction & individual resilience
Article on sociology of food, media culture, and food & eating business based on discourse analysis of a MasterChef season in Brazil presented at the Latin American and European Meeting on Organisation Studies in Argentina.
16. Food & eating representations: Restaurant online reviews, user-generated content & gender in consumer behaviour
Article on sociology of food, digital culture, food & eating business, and customer behaviour based on a discourse analysis customers’ posts on of TripAdvisor on two Brazilian steakhouses presented at Social Networks International Conference, FGV, São Paulo.
17. Feirinha Solidária da Universidade Federal De Uberlândia: Responsabilidade social e marketing estratégico institucional
Article on governance, marketing and public management based on an online experiment using inferential statistics to analyse the responses from 443 participants gathered via SurveyMonkey presented and published at the annals of UFMS Symposium on Administration.
18. Indicações bibliográficas: Food & organizações
Review and indication of literature on sociology and politics of food, food & eating business, and organisation studies published at the RBEO journal.
19. Governança corporativa & responsabilidade social corporativa: Revisão de suas literaturas atuais e um breve estudo das relações entre os dois conceitos
Dissertation on literature review and discussions on corporate governance and social responsibility and their relationship.
20. Administração e planejamento governamentais: A construção de um aparato de gestão integrado e democrático
Dissertation on public management and planning within an integrated framework and by democratic state apparatuses from the perspective of constitutional law, public administration and finance, Brazilian history, and state theory.
21. No passo da globalização: Cultura, comunicação & etiqueta empresarial
Article on cross-cultural communication in international business settings published in a national business magazine.
22. An in-service developmental approach to English as a foreign language for business managers
Research dissertation on the use applied linguistics theories in the design of a communicative and developmental methodology to EFL and business communication training.