Assistant Professor of African History
Ph.D. in Social Anthropology from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (2005)

Claudio Costa Pinheiro

Lines of research

Thematic Clusters

Historiography, Historical Knowledge, and History Teaching
Slavery, forms of dependency and coercion

Advising subjects

Mechanisms of power, Communication policies and the Constitution of Modernity
Social Theory in History and Social Sciences
History and Theories of Colonialism, Postcoloniality and the Global South
Slavery, forms of dependency, forced labor and coercion in Asia and Africa
Histories of Africa and Asia

Ongoing Research

Portuguese colonialism in South Asia and South America and the invention of slavery as a global metaphor in Emerging Modernity.
Spiritual Transits between the East and Brazil: Possessions, Psychographies and Forms of Ethnography in the 20th Century
Global circulation of concepts and the (re)production of social inequalities.

Selected Publications

PINHEIRO, C. 2024. From the Third World to the Global South: Definitions of Moral Geographies of Inequality in Anti-Colonial Intellectual Traditions. Sociology Compass, 18: e13262.

PINHEIRO, C. 2023. Dos limites da crítica epistemológica à sociologia como praxis. In A. Alatas & V. A. Sinha (Eds.), A teoria sociológica para além do cânone (pp. 11–33). Funilaria. ISBN: 978-65-84735-13-2

PINHEIRO, C. & FERREIRA, K.. 2020d. Anthropology with Southern Attitude. An Interview of Cláudio Costa Pinheiro. American Anthropologist, 122(3): 678-683, September 2020. DOI:10.1111/aman.1343

VERMEULEN, Han F.; PINHEIRO, Cláudio Costa; SCHRÖDER, Peter. Introduction: German Tradition in Latin American Anthropology. Revista de Antropologia, São Paulo, Brasil, v. 62, n. 1, p. 64–96, 2019.

PINHEIRO, C. 2019. Aníbal Quijano. A Historical Sociology of Power. IN: Beigel, Fernanda (Org.). Handbook of Latin American Sociological Traditions. London: Sage/ISA: 63-74 [ISBN 978-1-5264-9026-1.

Other Info

He has received scholarships from several foundations and philanthropic entities in Brazil (CNPq, CAPES, FAPERJ, FAPESP, FGV, Ministry of Education) and abroad (Ford Foundation, Sephis Programme, German Ministry of Education, International Institute of Asian Studies and UNESCO).

In the last 5 years, I have coordinated three books and published two special issues of academic journals and 16 articles in journals or as book chapters, mostly outside Brazil. I deliberately choose to publish in scientifically non-hegemonic languages ​​(Portuguese, Spanish, Chinese, Arabic, Korean and Bengali), as well as in English or French, in order to consolidate transregional networks and integrate my work into the debates taking place in these different intellectual environments.

RESEARCH GROUPS TO WHICH HE IS LINKED
Redistributing Sociological Knowledge. Delhi University, Bergen University and Rio de Janeiro Federal University.
Worck. Worlds Related to Coercions in Work. University of Vienna and others, Associated Researcher.
The Global Center for Transnational Studies, VU University Amsterdam, directors Maurice Crul (VU, Amsterdam) and Peggy Levitt (Wellesley College). Participant researcher.
The Latin American Knowledge Platform on Asia. Co-Founder and Board member.
The African Association of Asian Studies (A-Asia). Board member.

ORCID – https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4033-7973
Academia.edu – https://sephis.academia.edu/ClaudioPinheiro

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