BIO
Doutora em Antropologia Social (PPGAS) pela Universidade Estadual de Campinas, bolsista FAPESP, com pesquisa na área de antropologia das políticas públicas, alimentação e estudos sociais da ciência. É Bacharela em Ciências Sociais e Antropologia e Licenciada em Ciências Sociais pela Universidade Estadual de Campinas - UNICAMP, Brasil. Foi bolsista FAPESP de Iniciação Científica e de Mestrado, título que obteve pela mesma universidade, com um projeto que abrange questões relacionadas à Antropologia Urbana e Alimentação. Foi pesquisadora visitante no Observatório da Alimentação na Universidade de Barcelona, em 2013 e 2014 e pesquisadora visitante na Universidade da Califórnia Berkeley, em 2018 e 2019. Participa do grupo de pesquisa Ateliê em Produção Simbólica e Antropologia da Universidade Estadual de Campinas, do Núcleo de Etnografia Urbana do Cebrap e foi editora chefe da Revista PROA - Antropologia e Artes. Atualmente é coordenadora do GT Comida e Cultura da Rede de Pesquisadores em Soberania e Segurança Alimentar e Nutricional (Rede PENSSAN). Também foi Coordenadora de projetos sócio-ambientais no Instituto de Cooperação e Desenvolvimento Ambiente Total e da TEIA e atua como consultora de pesquisas relacionadas à consumo, alimentação e políticas públicas com enfoque em análises qualitativas e etnográficas.
Lis Furlani Blanco has received her BA, Master and PhD degree in Sociocultural Anthropology from the University of Campinas. Currently she is an Assistant Professor at the University of Goiás (UFG) where she focuses on the study of sociology and anthropology of Education, public policies related to Food, Hunger and Food Security. During her academic trajectory she has participated in different research projects related to the themes of Labour, Poverty and Development. She was a visiting researcher at the Food Observatory (ODELA), University of Barcelona, Spain, from 2013 to 2014 and was a visiting scholar at the Anthropology Department on the University of California, Berkeley. She is also a member of the Laboratory of Symbolic Production and Anthropology (APSA) at Unicamp, the coordinator of the Working Group of Food and Culture in the Brazilian Network of Researchers on Food Security and Food Sovereignty (RBPSSAN), and a member of the Center of Urban Ethnographic at CEBRAP. She was the editor of PROA (Art and Anthropology journal) for more than 6 years. In addition to her academic trajectory, she has work experience in NGOs related to development programs and housing assistance and worked with consultancy projects on consumers choice, food and public policies, focusing on ethnographic and qualitative analysis.
Her PhD research aimed to comprehend the interactions between people, politics, and objects. She has developed an ethnography of Brazilian Food Security policies through the analysis of the trajectory of the Zero Hunger Program. By examining the technopolitical knowledge interwoven in the creation of these public policies, her research aims to understand how ‘hunger’ is enacted and, in this process, it creates subjects and puts into circulation important categories such as rights, assistance, vulnerability, social welfare, but also the definition and the enactment of the State itself. Her work was supported by the São Paulo Research Foundation.