Gabriela’s PhD project examines the everyday care arrangements and modes of resistance in struggles for housing and environmental justice. Gabriela has conducted ethnographic fieldwork in an urban land occupation located in an ecologically sensitive area in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. The thesis looks at how houses, gardens and water are interconnected elements central to the social life and politics of urbanization in this locality. Gabriela’s research is supervised by Dr Romola Sanyal (Department of Geography and Environment) and Dr David Madden (Department of Sociology).
Gabriela has been the Graduate Teaching Assistant for Urban Geography and Globalisation (GY206) and Economy Society and Place (GY207). Gabriela has also co-organized the Feminist Reading Group (2020-2022), a space for students and staff to discuss feminist and queer approaches to geography.
Gabriela holds a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science from Sciences Po Paris and a Double Master’s degree in Urban Policy from Science Po Paris and the LSE. Gabriela has held the positions of Oram Research Fellow at the Department of Geography and Environment at LSE (2018-2019) and Graduate Teaching Assistant at the Bartlett Development Planning Unit at University College London (2019-2020).
Selected publications
Academic articles
Lima, G.N. & Gontijo, E.O. 2018. “Cozinha, Café e Prosa e Cuidado: rupturas e permanências no cotidiano de mulheres da comunidade atingida de Paracatu de Baixo, Mariana” [Kitchen, Coffee, Prose and Care: Discontinuities and continuities in the daily lives of women from the affected community of Paracatu de Baixo, Mariana], Tessituras: Revista de Antropologia e Arqueologia 6(2): 76-109.
Conference papers
Lima, G.N. and Gontijo, E.O. 2018. “Post-disaster governance and the peasant morality: houses, everyday life and expectations of a collective future for Paracatu de Baixo”, presented at 15th EASA Biennial Conference, Stockholm.
Blog posts
Lima, G.N. 2021. “Book Review: A Feminist Reading of Debt by Lucí Cavallero and Verónica Gago”, LSE Review of Books.
Awards
- LSE PhD Studentship on ‘Analysing and Challenging Inequality’ (2020-2024)
- Oram Research Fellowship (2018-2019)
Supervisors
- Dr Romola Sanyal
- Dr David Madden