Renata Campos MottaOctober - December 2024

1 October 2024

I am a sociologist with broad interdisciplinary research interests in fields like food studies, critical agrarian studies, and gender studies. Within my discipline I connect mostly with environmental sociology and political sociology, and my academic work follows the role of social mobilization and state-society relations in struggles where competing visions of food and agrarian futures are at stake. Through the lenses of food, I observe how progressive social movements also articulate other agendas of social change, such as feminism, anti-racism and decolonial struggles (what I have called intersectional food inequalities, and I am particular interested in processes of solidarity and coalition-building. I deal with these questions in collaboration with a team of researchers in the Research Group Food for Justice: Power, Politics and Food Inequalities in a Bioeconomy (BMBF). We combine qualitative and quantitative research methods and focus mostly in Brazil and Germany. I am Professor at the Heidelberg Center for Ibero-American Studies (HCIAS), University of Heidelberg. More info on my work can be found here.

Welcome to Hamburg, Renata!