Tatianna Mello Pereira da Silva
- Name
- Tatianna Mello Pereira da Silva
- Title
- Organisation
- International Development School of Social and Political Science University of Edinburgh
- Address
- Edinburgh UK EH8 9LD
- Telephone
- tatianna.silva@ed.ac.uk
- Research Interests
- Sustainable consumption and production, Global south, Brazil, Circular Economy, Waste pickers, Waste, Recycling networks, Materiality, Global Value Chains, space and spatiality
- URL
- http://www.sps.ed.ac.uk/gradschool/community_and_representation/research_student_profiles/international_development/tatianna_mello_pereira_da_silva
PhD Title
FOLLOW THE BOTTLE: PET RECYCLING ECONOMY AND WASTE PICKER EMPOWERMENT IN BRAZIL
My thesis seeks to understand and problematise waste pickers’ underprivileged socioeconomic condition in Brazil from the perspective of their active participation in the recycling economy. It uses a Cultural Political Economy informed analytical toolkit that includes a political-economic, a semiotic, a material and a spatial dimension to examine how the recycling economy is configured in Brazil. Premised on the adverse incorporation of waste pickers into the economy, it further asks how and in what ways their participation may take place on unfavourable terms.
Supervisors
Jamie Furniss (Social Anthropology) and Samantha Staddon (Human Geography)
Qualifications
2013/2014 - Master of Public Policy, Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford
2011/2013 - Master of Laws, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil
2006/2010 - Bachelor of Laws, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil
Teaching
2018/2020 - Analysing Development (MSc, online distance learning), School of Social and Political Science
2018/2019 - Sustainable Development 1A (UG), School of Social and Political Science
2017/2020 - Politics and Theories of International Development (MSc, online distance learning), School of Social and Political Science
2017/2018 - Principles of Environmental Sustainability (MSc), School of Geosciences
Awards and Scholarships
2015/2018 - Perfect Storm Scholarship (PhD research), Leverhulme Trust, UK
2014/2015 - Green Talents Award, German Ministry for Education and Research
2013/2014 - Chevening Scholarship, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, UK
2013/2014 - Lemann Fellowship, Lemann Foundation, Brazil
2012/2013 - CAPES Scholarship, Brazil