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Marcela Alonso Ferreira @marcelaferreira.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

gotta give Mamdani credit for bringing public tech back – and for sneaking a Drag Race reference into the name of the govt unit

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Urban Studies Foundation @urbanstudiesfoundation.org · 15/04/2026

📢 2026 USF International Fellowships - CALL FOR APPLICATIONS This fully-funded program offers 3-9 month sabbatical research visits for urban scholars from the Global South. Deadline: 6 July 2026 Read more & apply : ow.ly/ezMb50YILbw

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PSA Latin American Politics Specialist Group @psalatinamerica.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

#PSA26 A big thank you to all our presenters and participants who joined our panels yesterday! We had a fantastic set of presentations tackling some of the most pressing issues in the region. We hope to continue growing our Latam community in future events. @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social

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Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics @sciencespo-cee.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

🎓 Congratulations to Dr Jens Carstens (@jenscarstens.bsky.social) and Dr Marcela Alonso Ferreira (@marcelaferreira.bsky.social), who both brilliantly defended their PhD theses in political science yesterday. All the best for the next stage of their academic journey! cc @edr-sciencespo.bsky.social

Marcela Alonso Ferreira with her PhD jury

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Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics @sciencespo-cee.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

2️⃣ weeks left to submit an abstract to RC21 Vienna 2026 Conference next July, "Inequalities and the city" #RC21Vienna2026, organised by @rc21.bsky.social & @urbanfutures.bsky.social ⏩ rc21-vienna2026.org/call Several of our researchers co-chair panels (1/3)

Call for abstracts
Call for Posters
Pitch your work
Submit by 29 December 2025
RC21 Vienna 2026
Inequalities and the city
Urban Futures

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Tom Phillips @tomphillips.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

"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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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

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Émilien Houard-Vial @ehouardvial.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

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. www.change.org/p/non-%C3%A0...

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Non à la suppression des APL pour les étudiant·es étranger·es !

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Thiago Scarelli @tscarelli.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

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/...

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Pablo Valdivieso-Kastner @pvkastner.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

📢 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!

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Marcela Alonso Ferreira @marcelaferreira.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

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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Social Housing in Brazil: State and Developers at Work

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Lara Mesquita @laramesquita.bsky.social · 07/10/2024

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

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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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Marcela Alonso Ferreira @marcelaferreira.bsky.social · 26/08/2024

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...

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2024-2025 Programme

Programme complet des séminaires Cities are Back in Town

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Marcela Alonso Ferreira @marcelaferreira.bsky.social · 02/07/2024

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...

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Marcela Alonso Ferreira - Blog

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Marcela Alonso Ferreira @marcelaferreira.bsky.social · 23/05/2024

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...

08/05/2024. São Leopoldo (RS).
Foto: Thales Renato / Midia NINJA
https://www.flickr.com/photos/midianinja/53709451671

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Marcela Alonso Ferreira @marcelaferreira.bsky.social · 25/03/2024

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!

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Marcela Alonso Ferreira @marcelaferreira.bsky.social · 14/02/2024

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...

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Marcela Alonso Ferreira @marcelaferreira.bsky.social · 08/02/2024

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...

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Marcela Alonso Ferreira @marcelaferreira.bsky.social · 26/01/2024

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)_/¯

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Brenda Van Coppenolle @bvancoppenolle.bsky.social · 06/12/2023

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

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Marcela Alonso Ferreira @marcelaferreira.bsky.social · 04/12/2023

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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Marcela Alonso Ferreira @marcelaferreira.bsky.social · 02/11/2023

Hi bsky! Are there any fellow urban researchers around here? 🏙️📚 On 9 November, I'll host an exciting Cities are Back in Town Seminar: we're launching Patrick Le Galès and Jennifer Robinson's co-edited "Routledge Handbook of Comparative Global Urban Studies" + info👇 www.sciencespo.fr/research/cit...

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