Moisés Lino e Silva

Moisés Lino e Silva is a social anthropologist, professor at the Federal University of Bahia in Brazil and a World Social Science fellow of the International Social Science Council. He is originally from Goiás.Lopes, Osvaldo. "Livro aborda a vida de travestis na Rocinha." Jornal Fala Roça, June 28, 2023. Retrieved 2023-08-28. The scholar is an editorial board member of Cadernos de Campo, an anthropology journal published by the University of São Paulo."Cadernos de Campo (São Paulo - 1991), Equipe Editorial, Comissão Editorial 2023." Portal de Revistas da USP. Retrieved 2023-06-27. In 2019, he won the Global Religion Research Initiative Award, given by the University of Notre Dame.University of Notre Dame. "Round 4 Award Recipients." Global Religion Research Initiative. 2019. Retrieved 2023-06-27. Lino e Silva was also named an ALARI Fellow (2019-2020) at Harvard University."Moises Lino e Silva." Afro-Latin American Research Institute, Hutchins Center for African and African-American Research, Harvard University. Retrieved 2023-06-23. He will be a visiting associate professor in women's and gender studies at Harvard University in the Fall 2023, where he will teach "Queer Lives in the Global South" and "Queer Ethnographies."My.Harvard. "Queer Lives in the Global South" and "Queer Ethnographies." Havard University, Fall 2023 Course Guide. Retrieved 2023-06-30.
==Education==
Moisés Lino e Silva has a BA in international relations from the University of Brasília (2002), a master's degree in social anthropology from the London School of Economics and Political Sciences (2007), and a PhD in social anthropology from the University of St Andrews (2012). He pursued postdoctoral research in the same area at Harvard University in 2013."Moisés Vieira de Andrade Lino e Silva CV." CNPq, 2023-04-07. Retrieved 2023-06-23. 
==Scholarship==
Lino e Silva's field of focus is that of political anthropology, with a specialty in the ethnographic study of liberty and authority. This is examined in relation to issues such as poverty, sexuality, race, and religion. His initial in-field research considered the aspects and issues of freedom as experienced and perceived by slum dwellers in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and more recently in Nigeria.
Lino e Silva is the author of Minoritarian Liberalism: A Travesti Life in a Brazilian Favela, published by the University of Chicago Press in 2022, which focuses on Black people, children, and LGBTQ people, especially travestis, in a favela or working-class, poor community in Rio de Janeiro. The author explains in an interview that he wrote this book based on his ethnographic research when he "realized that favela dwellers have developed their own theories of liberalism, for example, which are based on their specific life experiences," also indicating that "this favela knowledge on liberalism does not necessarily follow the same logic of Eurocentric ideas on liberty and freedom."University of Chicago Press."Four Questions with Moisés Lino e Silva, Author of "Minoritarian Liberalism.'" The Chicago Blog, 10 March 2022. Retrieved 2023-07-06. As Cassandra White (Georgia State University) notes in Contemporary Sociology, Lino e Silva "discusses the importance of considering the nuances of practices that are morally and ethically charged and arguably exploitative play in the lives of our research participants/interlocutors," including "sex work as practiced by his research participants."White, Cassandra. "Innovative Storytelling and Representation of Sex Workers’ Perspectives in an 'Ethno-graphic' Novel." Contemporary Sociology 51, vol. 3 (2022): 185-188. . Retrieved 2023-07-07. He has also been interviewed by Reighan Gillam (Darmouth College) about this book for New Books Network.Gillam, Reighan. "Moisés Lino e Silva, Minoritarian Liberalism: A Travesti Life in a Brazilian Favela. New Books Network, 10 June 2022. Retrieved 2023-07-06. The book has been translated to Portuguese under the title Liberalismo Minoritário: Vida Travesti na Favela (Edições70, 2023). 
Minoritarian Liberalism has been reviewed by different independent outlets, such as the Allegra Lab and in ReVista: Harvard Review of Latin America. A review essay by Stephanie Clare in Feminist Theory, published by Oxford University Press, cites this work among "powerful contributions invested in what we might call decolonial freedom."Clare, Stephanie. "The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory." Feminist Theory, 29 April 2023. Retrieved 2023-06-26. The wider press in Brazil has covered Lino e Silva's scholarship in many outlets. "Celebre o mês do orgulho com oito livros LGBTQIAP+." Cultura930, 12 June 2023. Retrieved 2023-06-26. Yamada, Vinícius. "Livro 'Liberalismo Minoritário – Vida Travesti na Favela' discute liberdade em espaços de opressão." Gay Blog BR, 5 June 2023. Retrieved 2023-06-26."8 livros com temática LGBTQIAPN+." Vogue (Brazil), June 30, 2023. Retrieved July 1, 2023. On June 28, 2023, he was interviewed by TV Jornal, a Brazilian TV station in Recife, Pernambuco, as part of their celebration of the International Day of LGBTQIA+ Pride."Moisés Lino e Silva na TV Jornal." YouTube, June 28, 2023. Retrieved June 29, 2023.
The anthropologist's first book, Freedom in Practice: Governance, Autonomy and Liberty in the Everyday, is a collection of eight essays by diverse authors and was coedited with Huon Wardle. It includes a co-written introduction with Wardle and a chapter by Lino e Silva on the concept of "queer liberation" in a Brazilian favela.Lino e Silva, Moisés. "'Don’t Mess with My Fags!' – Said the Drug Lord: Queer Liberation in a Brazilian Favela. Freedom in Practice: Governance, Autonomy and Liberty in the Everyday. Moisés Lino e Silva and Huon Wardle, eds. Oxford: Routledge, 2017. Retrieved 2023-06-26. The book was reviewed by the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (JRAI). In his analysis, Luca Parisoli (Universita della Calabria) affirms: "this book is a very interesting contribution to a conceptual issue: why is freedom so rarely a keyword in anthropological analyses?"Parisoli, Lica. Book Review: Moisés Lino e Silva & Huon Wardle (eds). Freedom in practice: governance, autonomy and liberty in the everyday. xii, 191 pp., illus., bibliogrs. London, New York: Routledge, 2016. £115.00 (cloth). JRAI: Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, August 2, 2019. Retrieved 2023-06-26.
==Public Engagements==
*2018: Lino e Silva's latest research on freedom, art, and religion in Nigeria was exhibited at the São Paulo Museum of Art. 
*2019: Cadu Oliveira interviewed him for Goethe Institut regarding the current state of theoretical production in the Global South.Oliveira, Cadu. "Entrevista: Há apenas um sul possível para as teorias?" Goethe Institut Brasil. Retrieved 2023-06-28. 
*2020: Djassi DaCosta Johnson interviewed him for the Harvard Graduate School of Design News on his research in Nigeria.Johnson, Djassi DaCosta. "Sacred Groves and Secret Parks: An interview with Princess Adedoyin Talabi Faniyi and Moisés Lino e Silva." Harvard University Graduate School of Design News. October 22, 2020. Retrieved 2023-06-28.
*2021: Lino e Silva's work was featured in the Queer/ing Ethnography workshop at Harvard University.Meiu, George Paul. "Queer/ing Ethnography: A Precticum." (Syllabus) Spring 2021. Retrieved 2023-06-28.
*2022: His research on favelas was featured in Sapiens Magazine, an editorially independent anthropology magazine of the Wenner-Gren Foundation.Lino e Silva, Moisés. "What Is Freedom in a Brazilian Favela?" Sapiens, September 13, 2022. Retrieved 2023-06-28. In this same year, he gave a talk for the Brazil Working Group at Rutgers UniversityDa Silva, Daniel. "In Conversation with Moisés Lino e Silva, Author of Minoritarian Liberalism." Rutgers University Center for Latin American Studies, April 22, 2022. Retrieved 2023-06-28. and had a public debate with Jack Halberstam at the Bureau of General Services Queer Division in New York City.Bureau of General Services—Queer Division. "Minoritarian Liberalism: A Travesti Life in a Brazilian Favela (online)." Eventbrite, May 7, 2022. Retrieved 2023-06-28.
*2023: Lino e Silva was invited by Columbia University to organize a panel for the international conference Queer Aqui Rio.Center for the Study of Social Difference. "Queer Aqui: Together in Hard Times, Rio De Janeiro." Columbia University, May 25, 2023. Retrieved 2023-06-28. Also in this year, he delivered a public lecture at the Engaging Vulnerability Research Seminar at Uppsala University.Engaging Vulnerability Research Seminar. "Book talk – Minoritarian Liberalism: A Travesti Life in a Brazilian Favela." Uppsala University, May 9, 2023. Retrieved 2023-06-28. He also presented his book Minoritarian Liberalism at the Institute of Legal and Constitutional Research at the University of St Andrews.Institute of Legal and Constitutional Research. "Book Launch and Workshops: 'Laws of the Hillside: Minoritarian Liberalism in a Brazilian Favela.'" University of St Andrews, May 2, 2023. Retrieved 2023-06-28.
==Publications (Books)==
*Lino e Silva, Moisés, and Huon Wardle, eds. (2017). Freedom in Practice: Governance, Autonomy and Liberty in the Everyday. Oxford: Routledge. 
*Lino e Silva, Moisés (2022). Minoritarian Liberalism: A Travesti Life in a Brazilian Favela. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 
*Lino e Silva, Moisés (2023). Liberalismo Minoritário: Vida Travesti na Favela. São Paulo: Edições70. 
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