Professor Denise Ferreira da Silva
Professor in Ethics
Tel: +44 (0)20 7882 8414Fax: +44 (0)20 7882 3615
Location: Mile End, Francis Bancroft Building, 3.33
Email: d.ferreiradasilva@qmul.ac.uk
Research interests:
Denise's areas of interest include political theory, feminist theory, globalization, law & human rights, Latin American & Caribbean Studies, and cultural studies. Denise intends to develop the following research agenda: (a) the formulation of a notion of Global Justice, which acknowledges and addresses the effects of present and past conditions of political (economic, juridic, and symbolic) subjugation; (b) the tracing and unweaving of the various layers and threads of the global matrix which, is a concept that describes the present global conditions of existence, and (c) the tracking and expanding of liberatory political moves and statements that may guide the delineation of a project of Global Justice that does not merely re-inscribe the limiting modern ontoepistemological premises.
Publications:
Journal Articles and other Peer Reviewed Publications:
(2010) “The End of Brazil: An Analysis of the Debate on Racial Equity on the Edges of Global Market
Capitalism.” Columbia University National Black Law Journal, 1 (1).
(2009) “Evo Morales: An Outline of a Global Subject.” Seattle University Law Review/Seattle Journal for
Social Justice, 8 (1).
(2009) “No-bodies: Law, Raciality and Violence.” Griffith Law Review 18 (2), August.
(2006) “Á Brasileira: Racialidade e a Escrita de um Desejo Destrutivo.” Revista Estudos Feministas 14
(1): 61-83
(2005) “A Tale of Two Cities: Saigon, Fallujah, and the Ethical Boundaries of Empire.” Amerasia 31(2):
121-134
(2005) “‘Bahia Pêlo Negro’: Can the Subaltern (subject of raciality) Speak?” Ethnicities 5 (3): 321-342
(2004) “An Introduction: The Predicament of Brazilian Culture.” Social Identities
10 (6): 719-734
(2001) “Toward a Critique of the Socio-Logos of Justice: The Analytics of Raciality and the Production
of Universality.” Social Identities, (7) 3: 421-454 5
(1999) “Zumbi & Simpson, Farrakhan & Pelé: the crossroads of racial discourse.” Estudos Afro-
Asiáticos, 37.
(1998) “Facts of Blackness: Brazil is not (Quite) the United States ... And, Racial Politics in Brazil?”
Social Identities, 4 (2), June 1998.
(1993) “Race, Gender in the Labor Market” (with Marcia Lima). Estudos Afro-Asiáticos, 23: 97-111.
(1989) “Revisiting Racial Democracy: race and national identity in Brazilian thought.” Estudos Afro-
Asiáticos, 16: 157-170.
(1987) “The Death of Mãe Menininha: co-optation or resistance.” Comunicações do ISER, 21: 87-92.
Peer Reviewed Book Chapters:
(In Press) “Many Hundred Thousand Bodies Later: An Analysis of the ‘Legacy’ of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda” in Sundhya Pahuja, Fleur Johns, Richard Joyce. Events: The Force of International Law'. London:Cavendish/Routledge.
(In Press) “Despensar La Existencia Global: La analítica de la racialidad y la posibilidad de una justicia
global,” Raza, etnicidad y racismos: debates a la ciudadanía republicana en el marco de la
conmemoración de los Bicentenario de las Independencias en las Américas Negras. Editores CMRL;
Agustín Laó Montes; César Rodríguez. Universidad Nacional de Colombia, sede Bogotá- CES –
IDCARÁN; Universidad de los Andes- Observatorio de Discriminación Racial, Universidad Nacional de
Colombia, sede Medellín, Facultad de Ciencias Humanas y Económicas
(2005) “Out of África? Umbanda and the ‘Ordering’ of the Modern Brazilian Space” in Fragments of
Bone: Neo-African Religions in the Americas. Patrick Bellegarde-Smith (ed.). Champaign, Chicago:
University of Illinois Press.
(2004) “Mapping Territories of Legality: An Exploratory Cartography of Black Female subjects” in
Patricia Truitt and Peter Fitzpatrick (Eds.) Critical Beings: Race, Nation, and the Global Subject.
Aldershot, UK: Ashgate.
(2003) “Re-Writing the Black Subject: “History” and ‘Culture’ in the Black Brazilian Emancipatory
Text. ” in Peter Osborne and Stella Sandford (Eds.) Philosophies of Race and Ethnicity. London: Athlone
Press.
(2001) “Voicing ‘Resistance’: Race and Nation in the Mapping of the Modern Global Space” in Eliezer
Ben Rafael (ed.). Identity, Culture, and Globalization. Boston: Brill Academic Publishers.
(1999) “The Drama of Modernity: race and representation in television soap operas in Brazil” in Black
Brazil. Culture, Identity, and Social Mobilization. Larry Crook and Randal Johnson (Eds.) Los Angeles:
UCLA Latin American Center.
Books:
2007 Toward a Global Idea of Race. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
(In preparation) The Scene of Nature: The Racial Bo(u)nds of Law & Justice
Edited Collection
(2004) Guest Editor - Special issue on Race and Nation in Brazil. Social Identities 10 (6), December.
Grants, contracts, awards and external publications:
Awards, Fellowships, Research & Travel Grants:
(2010) Fellow-in-Residence - Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study/Stellenbosse Instituut vir
Gevorderde Navorsing – Stellenbosch, South Africa – Research Project: Genres of Critique, directeb by
Prof. Karin Van Marle (Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria) and Dr. Stewart Motha (Law School,
University of Kent)
(2009) Research Grant – Committee of Research-Academic Senate - University of California, San Diego
– Project: “No-bodies: A Study of Racial Subjection in Australia and South Africa” 3
(2005) Travel Grant – Center for the Humanities, University of California, San Diego – Mestizajes
Conference, Cambridge, UK, September 16-18.
(2004-2005) Research Grant – Committee on Research-Academic Senate – University of California, San
Diego – Project: “Beneath the Global Mandate: Racial Politics in Contemporary Brazil.”
(2004) Travel Grant – Committee on Research/Academic Senate – University of California, San Diego –
SBPC (Brazilian Society for the Advancement of Science) Meetings, Cuiabá, MT, Brazil, July 19-23.
(2004) Faculty Summer Fellowship - UCSD Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity – Project “The
Boys from Cidade de Deus: Remapping Racial Politics in Brazil.”
(2004) Research Grant – UCSD Civic Collaborative Small Grants - Principal Investigator (w/ Yen
Espiritu). Project “Refugee Lives in a Multiethnic, Multiracial, and Multinational City.”
(2004) Research Grant – American Sociological Association/National Science Foundation- Funds for the
Advancement of the Discipline – Principal Investigator (w/ Dr. Yen Espiritu). Project: “City Heights:
Refugees’ lives in a Global ‘hood.”
(2004) Researcher – OBSERVA-Observatório das Ações Afirmativas no Ensino Superior Brasileiro
(Observatory of Affirmative Action Policies in Brazilian Higher Education), a Multinational Research
Network housed at the Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Socias [Institute of Philosophy and Social
Sciences] (IFCS) of the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro [Federal University of Rio de Janeiro]
(UFRJ), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
(2002) Member - Consortium for the Study of African Diaspora – Funded by the Rockefeller Foundation
- Directed by Dr. Edmund T. Gordon, Department of Anthropology, University of Texas, Austin.
(2002-2002) Fellow in Residence – Humanities Research Institute (HRI), University of California, Irvine,
United States – Research Group “Reshaping the Americas: Narratives of Place”- Conveners: Dr. Ramon
Gutierrez (Ethnic Studies, University of California-San Diego) and Dr. David Theo Goldberg (African
American Studies/HRI, University of California-Irvine).
(2000 – 2001) Research Grant - Faculty Career Development Program. University of California, San
Diego.
(2000 – 2001) Research Grant - Committee on Research – Academic Senate – University of California,
San Diego.
(1999 – 2000) Research Grant – Committee on Research – Academic Senate – University of California,
San Diego.
(1998-1999) James Jimeson Teaching Fellowship - Hartwick College.
(1996-1997) Andrew Mellon Pre-doctoral Fellowship - Faculty of Arts and Sciences, University of
Pittsburgh. 4
(1995-1995) Pre-Dissertation Summer Research Grant - Office of the Provost - University of Pittsburgh.
(1992-1996) Minority Pre-doctoral Fellowship - Office of the Provost - University of Pittsburgh.
(1992-1995) Ford Foundation/LASPAU (Latin American Scholarship Program for American Universities) Afro-Brazilian Studies Doctoral Scholarship.
(1989-1990) M. A. Scholarship - CAPES - Conselho de Aperfeiçoamento do Pessoal do Ensino Superior
(Council for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel) – Ministry of Education and Culture -
Brazil.
(1989) Ford Foundation/ANPOCS - Associação Nacional de Graduação e Pesquisa em Ciências Sociais
(National Association of Graduate Studies and Research in Social Sciences) Research Grant. Project: “O
Negro na Televisão.”