Julia's work investigates how collective life is maintained within and against violent extractive structures.
Julia Sauma (she/her) is a Brazilian-British and Hard of Hearing researcher who investigates how collective life is maintained within and against violent extractive structures and institutions in metropolitan and frontier contexts in Brazil and the UK. She is particularly interested in the reshaping of self and collectivity that ensures the permanence of affective-ecological refuges. For the last eighteen years, she has been working with Amazonian quilombo (maroon) families from the Erepecuru River (Pará State, Brazil) to create reflections about the diverse work involved in maintaining refuges. More recently Julia has turned her attention to thinking about how collective spaces are sought, built and lost by Deaf and Hard of Hearing people. Julia’s work also investigates childhood and education, race and ethnicity, myth and memory, kinship and gender, disability and the body, translation and the place of miscommunication and disagreement in the making of collective knowledge.
Academic qualifications
PhD in Anthropology, University College London 2014
MA in Social Anthropology, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro 2007
As well as publishing academic and policy-oriented pieces, I explore what it means to be collective through performance, walks, chance creations and collaborations.
