This seminar aims to establish connections between research projects developed across different doctoral programmes that place black women at the crossroads of precarious living conditions, underemployment and social vulnerability. Drawing on research experiences in Brazil and Portugal, we will discuss theoretical approaches focused on the analysis of racial capitalism and neoliberal legal-political architecture to understand the place of impoverished black women in certain jobs, such as in the cleaning sector, domestic work, and personal care.

The seminar also seeks to highlight, from a critical racial perspective, the practices of diversity, equity, and inclusion in the most diverse areas of the social sphere and how their developments impact the experiences of black women in the diaspora. Analytical frameworks such as Escrevivência, a concept developed by writer Conceição Evaristo (1994), and the racial precariousness of work will be discussed.

Moderator: Silvia Maeso (CES)

Bio notes
Carla Beatriz de David Ernesto - POSCOM/UFSM
PhD candidate in Communication at the Graduate Programme in Communication at the Federal University of Santa Maria (UFSM) in the research area of Media and Communication Strategies. Master's degree in Communication from the same programme in the research area of Media and Contemporary Identities. Member of the research groups ‘Nós Pesquisa Criativa’ (UFSM) and ‘PLURAIS: Creativity and meanings of DEI in communication’, as well as the teaching project ‘Publicidade 50/50’ and the outreach project ‘Production of communication materials focused on gender and intersections’ at the Federal University of Pampa. She holds a degree in Social Communication - Advertising and Publicity from the Federal University of Pampa (UNIPAMPA). Her research focuses on: escrevivência in advertising, Afrocentric epistemology, intersectional and anti-racist perspectives in advertising.

Renata Coutinho de Almeida - CES/UC
PhD candidate in Sociology: Labour Relations, Social Inequalities and Trade Unionism at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Coimbra (FE-UC). She holds a Master's degree in Labour Law from the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (2019) and a postgraduate degree in Individual, Collective and Procedural Labour Law from the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (2016). She was a volunteer researcher at the Research and Outreach Centre ‘Work beyond Labour Law: dimensions of legal and labour clandestinity’ at the Faculty of Law of the University of São Paulo (FD-USP). Columnist at Carta Capital. Lawyer. Her current research is funded by FCT and focuses on the critical study of the process of labour precariousness, based on an analysis of the intersection between racism, sexism and precarious work.