Author: Gabriel Souza Bastos

Gabriel Souza Bastos is a Brazilian sociologist, graduated from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) and holds a Master's degree in Social Sciences from the Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRRJ). He is currently a PhD candidate at the same university, in the Postgraduate Programme of Social Sciences in Development, Agriculture and Society (CPDA). As part of his doctoral training, he was a visiting student at the Lateinamerika-Institut of the Freie Universität Berlin. Gabriel worked on research that supported the works of the State Truth Commission of Rio de Janeiro, investigating cases of human rights violations, conflicts and repression in rural areas of the state during and before the corporate-military dictatorship. This research was published in book format, with a chapter of his authorship. He is currently deepening this research in his doctoral thesis. His main research interests are collective memory on repression and the corporate-military dictatorship; land conflicts, agrarian question and peasant social movements. Gabriel also teaches sociology since 2015, with experiences in popular education, aimed at low-income high school students and also at the Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Rio de Janeiro, where he taught for secondary/technical and higher education.