Luana Xavier Pinto Coelho
Biography
Luana is a junior researcher at the project POLITICS: The politics of anti-racism in Europe and Latin America: knowledge production, decision-making and collective struggles, coordinated by Silvia Maeso. She is current PhD student at the Program "Human Rights in Contemporary Societies"(CES/IIIUC). She has a bachelor in Law and a master in Urban Development and International Cooperation (IUG-UPMF, Grenoble/ France and TUD, Darmstadt/ Germany). She has worked for the last four years at the Human Rights Organization Terra de Direitos (Curitiba/ Brazil) as executive coordinator and legal adviser for social movements and communities struggling for urban and rural land. She has also worked as a researcher at the binational project 'City and otherness: multiculturalism coexistence and urban justice' (UFMG, Belo Horizonte/Brazil), investigating the impact of slum upgrading projects in communities in Belo Horizonte. Her current interests are racism, city divide and racial segregation; the relation between law and space, critical race theory.
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Xavier Pinto Coelho, Luana (2023), "Racismo antinegro y derecho en el Perú: análisis del caso Algendones", DerechoPUCP, 90, 9-40
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Xavier Pinto Coelho, Luana (2023), "Building the Inter-American Convention against Racism: between Antiracist Pride and Racism Denial", Journal of Human Rights Practice, XX, 1-18
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Xavier Pinto Coelho, Luana (2022), "Law and race in Latin America: Brazil and Peru in an echo of two stories", Interface, 13, 2, 51-75
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