Marcela Alonso Ferreira
@marcelaferreira.bsky.social
PhD candidate in political science @sciencespo-cee.bsky.social interested in urban governance, policy, and politics in Latin America and beyond
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My paper "The Bureaucratic Politics of Urban Land Rights: (Non)Programmatic Distribution in São Paulo’s Land Regularization Policy" was just published in Latin American Politics & Society! doi.org/10.1017/lap.... 🚀
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"This doesn’t solve the problem,” said Rene Silva, from @vozdascomunidades.com.br “Rio’s crime problem needs to be combated in other places – not just in the favelas" www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
Brazil: at least 64 reported killed in Rio’s worst day of violence amid police favela raids
Governor says city ‘at war’ after gunfights between troops and Red Command drug traffickers who reportedly used weaponised drones
www.theguardian.com
October 28, 2025 at 8:59 PM
"This doesn’t solve the problem,” said Rene Silva, from @vozdascomunidades.com.br “Rio’s crime problem needs to be combated in other places – not just in the favelas" www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
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Operação no Rio de Janeiro é mais letal da polícia no país
Operação policial no Rio ultrapassa Carandiru e se torna a mais letal do país
Samira Bueno, do Fórum Brasileiro de Segurança Pública, diz que governador Castro será lembrado pela barbárie
www1.folha.uol.com.br
October 29, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Operação no Rio de Janeiro é mais letal da polícia no país
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Suite à sa publicisation sur la liste professionnelle des politistes, je me permets de vous partager un pétition contre la suppression des APL pour les étudiant(e)s étrangèr(e)s. Le droit d'étudier dignement vaut pour tout le monde.
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Non à la suppression des APL pour les étudiant·es étranger·es !
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October 21, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Suite à sa publicisation sur la liste professionnelle des politistes, je me permets de vous partager un pétition contre la suppression des APL pour les étudiant(e)s étrangèr(e)s. Le droit d'étudier dignement vaut pour tout le monde.
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About 2/3 of all own-account workers in Brazil appear to have taken this occupation as a result of a financial constraint, as opposed to their first-best economic choice.
This is the key finding of a paper I co-authored with David Margolis, now in EDCC: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
This is the key finding of a paper I co-authored with David Margolis, now in EDCC: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
June 2, 2025 at 11:04 PM
About 2/3 of all own-account workers in Brazil appear to have taken this occupation as a result of a financial constraint, as opposed to their first-best economic choice.
This is the key finding of a paper I co-authored with David Margolis, now in EDCC: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
This is the key finding of a paper I co-authored with David Margolis, now in EDCC: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
looking forward to returning to the Cities are Back in Town seminar on 5 June to discuss @proftortuga.bsky.social's upcoming book on infrastructure politics in Latin America! info and registration 👇
www.sciencespo.fr/research/cit...
@scpo-research.bsky.social
www.sciencespo.fr/research/cit...
@scpo-research.bsky.social
Alisha C. Holland, Creative Construction: The Rise and Stall of Mass Infrastructure in Latin America, 05.06.2025, 5:30pm-7pm CEST
Zoom Compulsory registration Presentation of the upcoming book: Creative Construction: The Rise and Stall of Mass Infrastructure in Latin America Infrastructure is at the heart of contemporary develop...
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May 27, 2025 at 5:17 PM
looking forward to returning to the Cities are Back in Town seminar on 5 June to discuss @proftortuga.bsky.social's upcoming book on infrastructure politics in Latin America! info and registration 👇
www.sciencespo.fr/research/cit...
@scpo-research.bsky.social
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@scpo-research.bsky.social
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📢 Calling early career scholars! Submit your abstracts by 31/01 for our Workshop on Comparative Politics in Latin America, hosted
@NuffieldCollege
🌎✍️ A unique chance to workshop papers with senior discussants. Spread the word!
@NuffieldCollege
🌎✍️ A unique chance to workshop papers with senior discussants. Spread the word!
Call for abstracts by 31 Jan: Rising Scholars Workshop on Comparative Politics in Latin America at Nuffield College, Oxford on March 10-11! 2-day event for early career scholars to workshop their papers with senior discussants. Seeking abstracts on a wide range of CP topics. Please share widely.
January 17, 2025 at 5:04 PM
📢 Calling early career scholars! Submit your abstracts by 31/01 for our Workshop on Comparative Politics in Latin America, hosted
@NuffieldCollege
🌎✍️ A unique chance to workshop papers with senior discussants. Spread the word!
@NuffieldCollege
🌎✍️ A unique chance to workshop papers with senior discussants. Spread the word!
mass incarceration meets depleted public service meets climate change www.nytimes.com/2025/01/11/u...
For Just Dollars a Day, Inmates Fight California’s Fires
Hundreds of incarcerated people are firefighting in Los Angeles. They are paid a maximum of $10.24 a day, and receive an additional $1 for each hour that they battle the deadly blazes.
www.nytimes.com
January 13, 2025 at 4:46 PM
mass incarceration meets depleted public service meets climate change www.nytimes.com/2025/01/11/u...
After using podcasts in my Latin American Metropolis course, with Sur-Urbano as a key inspiration, I am thrilled to see one of the students, Grace, cohosting an episode! Thanks to @leiteflavia.bsky.social, Isabel, Lucia, and Grace, for this insightful conversation ✨ open.spotify.com/episode/2I7V...
Social Housing in Brazil: State and Developers at Work
Sur-Urbano · Episode
open.spotify.com
December 17, 2024 at 2:53 PM
After using podcasts in my Latin American Metropolis course, with Sur-Urbano as a key inspiration, I am thrilled to see one of the students, Grace, cohosting an episode! Thanks to @leiteflavia.bsky.social, Isabel, Lucia, and Grace, for this insightful conversation ✨ open.spotify.com/episode/2I7V...
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A pedido da @folha.com fiz uma análise, a quente, dos resultados do primeiro turno das eleições municipais desse ano.
Meu foco foi a consolidação da direita, que já tinha registrado crescimento em 2020.
#Eleições2024
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Meu foco foi a consolidação da direita, que já tinha registrado crescimento em 2020.
#Eleições2024
shorturl.at/Rz5W9
Análise: Votação revela consolidação da direita nas eleições municipais brasileiras
Republicanos parece se preparar para assumir papel de principal representante eleitoral da direita; PSDB não elege vereador em SP
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October 7, 2024 at 3:18 AM
A pedido da @folha.com fiz uma análise, a quente, dos resultados do primeiro turno das eleições municipais desse ano.
Meu foco foi a consolidação da direita, que já tinha registrado crescimento em 2020.
#Eleições2024
shorturl.at/Rz5W9
Meu foco foi a consolidação da direita, que já tinha registrado crescimento em 2020.
#Eleições2024
shorturl.at/Rz5W9
Publication Alert 🚀 !
Our paper on how bureaucrats act as entrepreneurs to advance urban agriculture policies in Brazilian cities has just been published in Urban Planning.
www.cogitatiopress.com/urbanplannin...
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Our paper on how bureaucrats act as entrepreneurs to advance urban agriculture policies in Brazilian cities has just been published in Urban Planning.
www.cogitatiopress.com/urbanplannin...
@institutoescolhas.bsky.social
Cultivating Urban Agriculture Policies: Local Government Entrepreneurs’ Strategies in Three Brazilian Cities | Article | Urban Planning
Marcela Alonso Ferreira, Giselle Mendonça Abreu, Camila Nastari Fernandes, Vitória Leão, Jaqueline Ferreira, Juliana Luiz
www.cogitatiopress.com
September 16, 2024 at 7:55 AM
Publication Alert 🚀 !
Our paper on how bureaucrats act as entrepreneurs to advance urban agriculture policies in Brazilian cities has just been published in Urban Planning.
www.cogitatiopress.com/urbanplannin...
@institutoescolhas.bsky.social
Our paper on how bureaucrats act as entrepreneurs to advance urban agriculture policies in Brazilian cities has just been published in Urban Planning.
www.cogitatiopress.com/urbanplannin...
@institutoescolhas.bsky.social
Earlier this year, I handed over my part in organizing the #CitiesAreBackInTown seminars to Eva Bossuyt, who’s been collaborating with Petra Samaha since. They’ve put together a super exciting program for the next academic year—check it out ✨👇! www.sciencespo.fr/research/cit...
2024-2025 Programme
Programme complet des séminaires Cities are Back in Town
www.sciencespo.fr
August 26, 2024 at 9:16 AM
Earlier this year, I handed over my part in organizing the #CitiesAreBackInTown seminars to Eva Bossuyt, who’s been collaborating with Petra Samaha since. They’ve put together a super exciting program for the next academic year—check it out ✨👇! www.sciencespo.fr/research/cit...
Transforming passive learning into an active and engaging process can significantly improve educational outcomes. Check out my blog post on the roleplaying game I recently used in the Latin American Metropolis course I taught at Sciences Po's Urban School. 🎲
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Marcela Alonso Ferreira - Blog
Metropolitan Area of Mexico City © Marcela Alonso Ferreira
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July 2, 2024 at 4:11 PM
Transforming passive learning into an active and engaging process can significantly improve educational outcomes. Check out my blog post on the roleplaying game I recently used in the Latin American Metropolis course I taught at Sciences Po's Urban School. 🎲
sites.google.com/view/marcela...
sites.google.com/view/marcela...
O desastre no Rio Grande do Sul escancarou o que muitos já sabiam ou desconfiavam: as cidades brasileiras não estão adaptadas às mudanças climáticas e o Estado brasileiro avançou pouco para além da resposta a desastres. Meu comentário no Valor: valor.globo.com/brasil/notic...
May 23, 2024 at 2:36 PM
O desastre no Rio Grande do Sul escancarou o que muitos já sabiam ou desconfiavam: as cidades brasileiras não estão adaptadas às mudanças climáticas e o Estado brasileiro avançou pouco para além da resposta a desastres. Meu comentário no Valor: valor.globo.com/brasil/notic...
I am shocked, thrilled, ecstatic, and, most of all, honored to learn that I have been selected to receive a grant from the IJURR Foundation!
March 25, 2024 at 4:54 PM
I am shocked, thrilled, ecstatic, and, most of all, honored to learn that I have been selected to receive a grant from the IJURR Foundation!
Mark your calendars for 29 Feb!
Deborah Fromm will join us at the #CitiesAreBackInTown seminar for a talk on "Public Security, Private Interests: On Social Conflict in Contemporary Brazil."
Register to attend online or in person from 5-7 PM CET 👇
www.sciencespo.fr/research/cit...
Deborah Fromm will join us at the #CitiesAreBackInTown seminar for a talk on "Public Security, Private Interests: On Social Conflict in Contemporary Brazil."
Register to attend online or in person from 5-7 PM CET 👇
www.sciencespo.fr/research/cit...
February 14, 2024 at 5:27 PM
Mark your calendars for 29 Feb!
Deborah Fromm will join us at the #CitiesAreBackInTown seminar for a talk on "Public Security, Private Interests: On Social Conflict in Contemporary Brazil."
Register to attend online or in person from 5-7 PM CET 👇
www.sciencespo.fr/research/cit...
Deborah Fromm will join us at the #CitiesAreBackInTown seminar for a talk on "Public Security, Private Interests: On Social Conflict in Contemporary Brazil."
Register to attend online or in person from 5-7 PM CET 👇
www.sciencespo.fr/research/cit...
The #CitiesAreBackInTown seminar series is back! Our first session is scheduled for today, February 8th at 5-7 PM CET in Paris & Zoom. In this session, Marc Barthelemy will give a talk on the pillars of a research program for a "science of cities."
Register here!👇
www.sciencespo.fr/research/cit...
Register here!👇
www.sciencespo.fr/research/cit...
February 8, 2024 at 10:39 AM
The #CitiesAreBackInTown seminar series is back! Our first session is scheduled for today, February 8th at 5-7 PM CET in Paris & Zoom. In this session, Marc Barthelemy will give a talk on the pillars of a research program for a "science of cities."
Register here!👇
www.sciencespo.fr/research/cit...
Register here!👇
www.sciencespo.fr/research/cit...
o que chamamos de "jabuti" no Brasil (prática parlamentar de adicionar disposições não relacionadas ao objeto original de um projeto de lei), em francês chama-se "cavalier législatif" e em inglês, "rider"
cada um com suas referências né ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
cada um com suas referências né ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
January 26, 2024 at 10:00 AM
o que chamamos de "jabuti" no Brasil (prática parlamentar de adicionar disposições não relacionadas ao objeto original de um projeto de lei), em francês chama-se "cavalier législatif" e em inglês, "rider"
cada um com suas referências né ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
cada um com suas referências né ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Apply for a Paris Polisky PhD @sciencespo-cee.bsky.social, part of POLLOT HorizonEU ERC_Research with me
@bvancoppenolle.bsky.social
Deadline 10th January 2024 ➡️https://bit.ly/3TcJFKx
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@bvancoppenolle.bsky.social
Deadline 10th January 2024 ➡️https://bit.ly/3TcJFKx
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December 6, 2023 at 11:20 AM
Apply for a Paris Polisky PhD @sciencespo-cee.bsky.social, part of POLLOT HorizonEU ERC_Research with me
@bvancoppenolle.bsky.social
Deadline 10th January 2024 ➡️https://bit.ly/3TcJFKx
PSJMInfo
@bvancoppenolle.bsky.social
Deadline 10th January 2024 ➡️https://bit.ly/3TcJFKx
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My paper "The Bureaucratic Politics of Urban Land Rights: (Non)Programmatic Distribution in São Paulo’s Land Regularization Policy" was just published in Latin American Politics & Society! doi.org/10.1017/lap.... 🚀
December 4, 2023 at 4:27 PM
polisky
My paper "The Bureaucratic Politics of Urban Land Rights: (Non)Programmatic Distribution in São Paulo’s Land Regularization Policy" was just published in Latin American Politics & Society! doi.org/10.1017/lap.... 🚀
December 4, 2023 at 12:49 PM
My paper "The Bureaucratic Politics of Urban Land Rights: (Non)Programmatic Distribution in São Paulo’s Land Regularization Policy" was just published in Latin American Politics & Society! doi.org/10.1017/lap.... 🚀