Researcher Profile - Angela Alonso
Angela Maria Alonso
CEBRAP
Morgado de Mateus street, 615 – Vila Mariana
São Paulo – SP – Brazil – zip code 04015-902
Telephone: (55 - 11) 5574-0399
Fax number: (55 - 11) 5574-5928
E-mail: cebrap@cebrap.org.br
Web address: www.cebrap.org.br
Biography
Angela Alonso is a Professor of Sociology at University of São Paulo and Coordinator of the Environmental Conflicts Area at CEBRAP. Since 1995 she has been coordinating projects on environmental conflicts in Brazil. Currently she works on the Brazilian environmental movement . Besides that, she has a book in the area of historical sociology, for which she was awarded, in 2001, with the Anpocs (Brazilian National Association of Social Sciences) the annual prize for best doctoral thesis in the social sciences.
Projects
Project - New patterns of engagement and global networks of environmental activism – part of 'Local-Global Citizenship Engagements' Research Programme
Summary - The aim of this research is to investigate, in a comparative perspective, the new patterns of local-global engagement of environmental activism emerging in Brazil during the 1990s.
Latest Publications
Alonso, Angela; Costa, Valeriano and Maciel, Débora, (2005), The formation of the Brazilian environmental movement, IDS Working Paper 259, november
Alonso, Angela and Costa, Valeriano. (2005), 'Environmental perception and political mobilisation in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo : A comparative analysis', in Leach, Melissa; Scoones, Ian and Wynne, Brian Science and citizens. globalization & the challenge of engagement. DRC Series/Zed Press
Alonso, Angela and Costa, Valeriano, (2004), 'The dynamics of public hearings for environmental licensing: the case of the Sao Paulo ring road', Cornwall , Andrea and Coelho, Vera Schattan (ed.). New Democratic Spaces?, IDS Bulletin. V. 35, No. 2, April.
