Irlys Alencar Firmo Barreira
Email: irlys.firmo@gmail.com
Lattes:http://lattes.cnpq.br/1873147390513866
OrcID: http://lattes.cnpq.br/1873147390513866
Research Line: CITY, SOCIAL INEQUALITIES, SOCIOCULTURAL MOVEMENTS, AND EDUCATION
Education
Bachelor’s Degree in Social Sciences – Federal University of Ceará, UFC (1973)
Master’s Degree in Sociology – University of Brasília, UnB (1977)
PhD in Sociology – University of São Paulo, USP (1988)
Post-Doctorate – Ecole des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, EHESS, France (1990)
Post-Doctorate – Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon, ICS Portugal (2008)
About
She is a CNPq Researcher 1B and leader of the Leadership, Representations, and Political Practices Research Group of the CNPq Research Directorate. She holds a doctorate from USP and a postdoctoral degree from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (Paris) and the Institute of Social Sciences (ICS) at the University of Lisbon.
She has focused her research on culture and politics, diversifying over time into related topics, including studies on social movements, representations of politics, ethnography of politics, women’s participation in institutional spaces, and urban studies.
She also appreciates theory, which she considers a relevant tool for reflecting on the events of social life. She has explored the theoretical possibilities opened up by psychoanalysis, exploring important paths for reflecting on the sensibilities present in everyday life. More recently, she joined the PRINT research network, which encompasses the fields of sociology and water resources, focusing on water allocation and the participation of social actors in basin committees in Ceará.
She also conducts research on residents of urban irregular settlements and their forms of organization and participation in land regularization plans. She is a member of the Laboratory for Studies in Education, Culture, and Politics, with which she establishes an intense relationship of exchange and collective research experiences.
She has supervised 33 master’s dissertations and 25 doctoral theses. In addition to several articles focusing on the relationships between culture and politics, she is the author of the books: O Reverso das Vitrines: Conflitos Urbanos e Cultura Política (Rio Fundo, 1992); Chuva de papeles, ritos e simbólicos de campanha eleitoral no Brasil (Relume Dumará, 1998); Imagens ritualizadas, Apresentação de Mulheres em grupos político (Pontes, 2008). The city as narrative (Social Sciences Press, 2013). Creative work in research: Teaching and research experiences in social sciences (University Press, 2017). She has served as a consultant and representative at several academic institutions, including Capes (area representative from 2002-2004 and 2006-2010), CNPq (area representative from 2000-2002), and FUNCAP – Ceará Foundation for the Support of Scientific and Technological Development (representatives in the Chamber of Social Sciences, 2009-2010). She represented Brazil on the board of the Latin American Sociological Association (ALAS) (2013-2015). She was director of Anpocs (1993-1994) and served on several committees of that institution. She was President of the Brazilian Society of Sociology (SBS) (2012-2013). She is a member of the coordination team of the Center for Anthropology of Politics / NuAP/UFRJ.
Ongoing Research Projects
2019 – Present
Moradia, espaço público e (i)legalidades: tensões e conexões entre moradores e políticas urbanas
