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About Us Eryka Silva Galindo

DOCTORAL RESEARCHER, BMBF JUNIOR RESEARCH GROUP

Eryka Silva Galindo is a research associate for the junior research group Food for Justice: Power, Politics and Food Inequalities in a Bioeconomy (2019-2025), funded by the German Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF).

Eryka holds a bachelor’s degree in history and a master’s degree in sociology from the University of Brasilia. Furthermore, she completed a specialization degree in participatory democracy, republic, and social movements with the Political Science Department of the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais – UFMG. Currently, she is a doctoral researcher at the Institute for Latin American Studies (LAI) of Freie Universität Berlin. Her experience also includes working for the National Confederation of Agricultural Workers and the Confederation of Mercosur Family Producers Organization.

Her developing doctoral research focuses on the actions taken as part of social movements for the right to food security in the Brazilian semi-arid region, analyzing how they impact and transform food systems.

Eryka

Research

 Her research interests are social theory, political sociology, historical sociology, rural sociology, feminist theories, decolonial studies, social movements studies, peasants studies, rural women's movement studies, food studies, social inequalities, agroecology, Latin American studies, Brazilian studies, and qualitative methodologies.

Publications

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Thesis
  • Galindo. E. D. S. Pois, sem mulher a luta vai pela metade: a participação das mulheres jovens trabalhadoras rurais e as repercussões no sindicalismo. Dissertação (Mestrado em Sociologia). Instituto de Ciências Sociais. Departamento de Sociologia da Universidade de Brasília (UnB). Brasília: UnB, 2017.162 f.
  • Galindo, E. D. S. Jovens do campo - reflexões sobre as trajetórias e sentidos da participação no movimento sindical (Youth of the field - reflections on the trajectories and meanings of participation in the union movement). Conclusion Monograph of the Specialization Course in Participatory Democracy, Republic and Social Movements/UFMG.
Working Papers
  • Teixeira, M. A.; Motta, R.; Rennó, L.; Zentgraf, Lea; and Galindo, E. Marcha das Margaridas 2019: alimentação, mobilização social e feminismos. Working Paper Series No 2. Berlin: Food for Justice: Power, Politics, and Food Inequalities in a Bioeconomy.
  • Galindo, E., Teixeira, M. A., de Araújo, M., Motta, R., Pessoa, M., Mendes, L., & Rennó, L. (2021). Efeitos da pandemia na alimentação e na situação da segurança alimentar no Brasil. Working Paper Series No 4. Berlin: Food for Justice: Power, Politics, and Food Inequalities in a Bioeconomy.
Book Chapters
  • Galindo, E. D. S. and Rosa, M. C. (2021). Rural Labour Unionism in Brazil: The Transformations of the National Confederation of Farm Workers (CONTAG). In: Praveen Jha et al. (Eds.). Labour Questions in the Global South. Chapter 13. p. 269 – 287.
  • Galindo, E. D. S. Sou jovem do campo: caminhos de construção da identidade juvenil no sindicalismo rural. In: Geraldo Leão and Maria Isabel Antunes (Org.). Juventudes do Campo – 1 ed – Belo Horizonte: Autêntica Editora, 2015 – (Coleção Caminhos da Educação do Campo). p.107-124.
  • Galindo, E. D. S. Juventude rural e políticas públicas no Brasil. In: Marilda Aparecida de Menezes; Valmir Luiz Stropasolas and Sergio Botton Barcellos (Org.). Juventude rural e políticas públicas no Brasil. 1ed.Brasília: Presidência da República, 2014, v. 1, p. 122-132.
Articles in Newspapers, Magazines, and Websites
  • Galindo, E. (2021). Die Marcha das Margaridas und politische Aktion in Zeiten der Pandemie. KoBra Brasilicum n. 261: Juni.
  • Motta, R.; Teixeira, M. A.; Galindo, E. D. S. (2021). Widerstand gegen den Konservatismus in Brasilien: Erfahrungen des Marcha das Margaridas. KoBra Brasilicu n. 260: February.
  • MOTTA, Renata.; TEIXEIRA, M. A; GALINDO, E. (2021) Pandemia da insegurança alimentar. Folha de São Paulo, São Paulo, 27 abr. 
  • TEIXEIRA, M. A; MOTTA, Renata. ; GALINDO, E. (2021). Desigualdades alimentares em tempos de pandemia. Nexo Jornal, São Paulo, 19 abr.

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Eryka Silva Galindo

Heidelberg Center for Ibero-American Studies | HCIAS
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Email: eryka.galindo(at)uni-heidelberg.de

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