Scholars
Cristiana Losekann
Federal University of the Espirito Santo
Based in
Brazil
South America
Cristiana Losekann is a Professor at the Social Sciences Department of the Federal University of the Espirito Santo in Brazil. She coordinates the Environmental Policy and Justice Research Laboratory (LAPAJ). She is researching transformations of environmentalism across the years in Brazil. Her research interests include environmental movements, legal mobilization, climate framing, and environmental policy in Brazil. She works with ethnography and qualitative methodology. She is a fellowship researcher of the Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq). In 2013, she published Environmentalist Movements in Brazil – intertwining tensions between State and Society during the Lula government (in Portuguese).
Orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9043-6099
Most recent publication: https://doi.org/10.1590/1809-4422asoc0176r4vu27L1OA
Country(ies) of Specialty
BrazilFocus areas of expertise
Climate policy and politics Climate law and litigation Climate Justice Social movementsPublications
Articles
Losekann, C., & Paiva, R. L.. (2024). Brazilian Environmental Policy: shared responsibility and dismantling. Ambiente & Sociedade, 27, e01764. https://doi.org/10.1590/1809-4422asoc0176r4vu27L1OA
Giffoni Pinto, R., Mansur, M. S., & Losekann, C. (2024). Communities, method of usage: unravelling mining guides, manuals and reports. Revista Brasileira De Estudos Urbanos E Regionais, 26(1). https://doi.org/10.22296/2317-1529.rbeur.202407pt
. https://rbeur.anpur.org.br/rbeur/article/view/7447/5549
Losekann, C., & Milanez, B. (2023). Mining disaster in the Doce River: Dilemma between governance and participation. Current Sociology, 71(7), 1255-1273. https://doi.org/10.1177/00113921211059224
Losekann, Cristiana. «Movilización legal transnacional: el caso del desastre minero en Mariana y río Doce en Brasil». Revista CIDOB d’Afers Internacionals, n.º 130 (abril de 2022), p. 47-72. DOI: doi.org/10.24241/rcai.2022.130.1.47
Losekann et al., 2019C. Losekann, T.H. Dias, A.V.M. Camargo. The Rio Doce mining disaster: legal framing in the Brazilian justice system
Extr. Ind. Soc. (2019), 10.1016/j.exis.2019.11.015
Losekann, C.. (2017). “It was no accident!” The place of emotions in mobilizing people affected by the collapse of Samarco’s tailings dam in Brazil. Vibrant: Virtual Brazilian Anthropology, 14(2), e142102. https://doi.org/10.1590/1809-43412017v14n2p102