Team behind the project
Antonia Gama
Antonia Gama is currently a Research Associate at the Social Anthropology Department, University of Manchester, UK. She holds a PhD degree in Social Anthropology with Visual Media from the same university. Her latest collaborative projects address the politics of representation, grassroots media activism, and practices of resistance against urban expulsion and state violence driven by neoliberal capitalist expansion in contemporary Brazil.
Dr Antonia Gama is the Principal Investigator and Director of My Piece of Land, an ESRC-funded project based at the Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology.
Angela Torresan
Angela Torresan did her Masters in Social Anthropology at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Museu Nacional (1994), and her PhD in Social Anthroplogy and Visual Media at the University of Manchester (2004). Before starting her lectureship appointment in Manchester in 2007, she took a two-year Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (Prodoc).
Dr Angela Torresan is one of the mentors of My Piece of Land.
Gillian Evans
Gillian Evans studied social anthropology at the School of Oriental and African Studies before completing her Master's and PhD degree in the Social Anthropology of Children and Child Development in the Centre for Child-Focused Anthropological Research (CFAR) at Brunel University. Gillian studies the relationship between social class, race, ethnicity and multiculturalism in Britain. Gillian held a Research Council UK Fellowship from 2007-2012 in the Centre for the Study of Social and Economic Change (CRESC), at Manchester, and undertook a long-term ethnographic study of the planning and delivery of the Olympic Legacy in the post-industrial East End of London. Gillian has now published a new ethnographic monograph based on this research.
Dr Gillian Evans is one of the mentors of My Piece of Land.
Roberta Mathias
Roberta Mathias is an urban and visual anthropologist and an experienced photographer. She is currently a PhD candidate in Film Studies at the Fluminense Federal University (PPGCINE-UFF) and in Social Sciences at the State University of Rio de Janeiro (PPCIS-UERJ). Roberta worked as a research assistant for My Piece of Land.
