About
Research Context
Brazil | South Africa
Research Interests
Knowledge transfer | artistic practices | power relations | Southern theories
Institutional Subunit
ISCTE
Biographical Note
Laura Burocco is dedicated to research and teaching. Her research interests are on cultural industry and the transformation of work in post-industrial and post-colonial societies, cultural diplomacy and soft power, knowledge production, cognitive capitalism, and southern epistemology into the theoretical framework of decolonial and cultural studies. She is currently a Researcher at the Centre for Research in Anthropology (CRIA) ISCTE of the University Institute of Lisbon. Her research interrogates the intersection of culture and power as the main focus of decolonization of knowledge, critically approaching academia and the arts as a tool for meaningful decolonization. She has been a postdoctoral fellow in Visual History and Theory at the Centre for Humanities Research of the University of the Western Cape, Cape Town in 2021, and in Visual Languages at Post Graduate Program of School of Art of the Federal University in Rio de Janeiro in 2019. From 2012 to 2018 she conducted the research and artistic project Gentrilogy between Milano, Rio de Janeiro, and Johannesburg, which resulted in two exhibitions, Braamopoly (Johannesburg 2013) and Gentrilogy (Rio de Janeiro, 2019), and several presentations and publications.
