Gabriel Bastos, from Brazil, holds Ph.D. in Social Sciences, Development, Agriculture, and Society from the Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro (UFRRJ). Currently, he serves as a researcher at Germinal, an interdisciplinary research association that facilitates a dialogical exchange between popular and scientific knowledge, fostering an emancipatory process within popular groups and social movements.
In recent years, Gabriel has been teaching Social Sciences at Brazilian federal education institutions, such as the Instituto Federal do Rio de Janeiro (IFRJ) and the Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora (UFJF).
His areas of research and interests are collective memory of peasant social movements; land conflicts, and political economy of agriculture.
Gabriel is a member of the Partido Socialismo e Liberdade (PSOL) and of the Peasant Truth Commission, a collective of researchers from several regions of Brazil dedicated to advocating for the cause of memory, truth, justice, and reparation in response to the persecution endured by peasant movements during the Brazilian dictatorship.
You may find all of his publications by clicking here.
Encounter in May 2023, with peasants` organizations and members of the Federal Public Defender’s office, for memory, truth, justice, and reparation. Held in Japeri, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Seminar on territorial transformations and dictatorship in the peri-urban Rio de Janeiro, with public servants from agrarian development agencies, rural workers unions and associations, held in Nova Iguaçu, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in March 2023.
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