Irlys Alencar Firmo Barreira
Irlys Barreira is a CNPq researcher and leader of the Leadership, Representations and Political Practices Research Group. She has a PhD at University of São Paulo and a post-doctorate at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (Paris) and at the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon.
She built her activities related to the field of culture and politics, diversifying over time in related themes, including studies on social movements, representations about politics, ethnography of politics, participation of women in institutional spaces and urban studies.
She is also fond of theory, considered to be a relevant tool for thinking about the events of social life and has been exploring the theoretical possibilities opened by psychoanalysis, taking important paths to think about the sensitivities present in everyday life. More recently, she became part of the PRINT research network that involves the areas of sociology and water resources, being interested in the theme of water allocation and participation of social actors in basin committees in Ceará.
She also conducts research on residents of irregular urban occupations and their forms of organization and participation in land regularization plans. She is part of the Laboratory of Cultural and Political Education Studies with which she establishes an intense relationship of exchanges and collective research experiences.
Professor Irlys Barreira supervised 33 master’s dissertations and 25 doctoral theses. In addition to several articles focusing on the relationship between culture and politics, she is the author of the books: O Reverso das Vitrines: Conflitos Urbanos e Cultura Política (1992). Chuva de papéis, ritos e símbolos de campanha eleitoral no Brasil (1998). Imagens ritualizadas, apresentação de mulheres em cenários políticos (2008). A cidade como narrativa (2013). O labor criativo na pesquisa: Experiências de ensino e investigação em ciências sociais (2017).
She participated as a consultant and representative in several academic institutions such as Capes (area representative in the periods (2002-2004) and (2006-2010), CNPq (area representative in the period 2000-2002), FUNCAP- Fundação Cearense de Apoio ao Desenvolvimento Scientific and Technological (representatives in the Chamber of Social Sciences, 2009-2010). She was representative of Brazil in the direction of the Latin American Sociology Association – ALAS (2013-2015). She was director of Anpocs (1993-1994) and participated in several committees of this institution, she was President of the Brazilian Society of Sociology – SBS (2012-2013), she is part of the coordination of the Nucleus of Anthropology of Politics / NuAP / UFRJ.
E-mail: irlys.firmo@gmail.com
