Residency period: March 4th to December 31st, 2024
Department of Labor Law and Introduction to the Study of Law – Law School at UFMG
Camila Silva Nicácio is an adjunct professor at the Faculty of Law at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (Undergraduate and Permanent Postgraduate Staff). Guest professor at Université Paris I, Panthéon-Sorbonne; from the Université de Laval and the University of Ottawa. Visiting Researcher at the Universidad Nacional de Cordoba and the University of Ottawa. Post-doctorate at the Brazilian Center for Analysis and Planning (CEBRAP), with a scholarship from the São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP). PhD in Law from Université Paris I. Master in Law from Université Paris III. Graduated in Law from UFMG. Lead researcher at Dom – Research group in Anthropology of Law (UFMG). Co-coordinator of Interfaces – Law and Psychoanalysis (UFMG). Researcher at the Religious Pluralism and Diversities in Post-Constituent Brazil Research Group (CEBRAP). Contributor to Understanding Nonreligion in a Complex Future (University of Ottawa). Collaborator at the Brazilian Center for Studies in Law and Religion (CEDIRE-UFU). Collaborator at the Center for Anthropology of Law at the University of São Paulo (NADIR-USP). Editor of the Journal of Empirical Studies in Law (REED). Experience in the area of Law, with an emphasis on Anthropology of law and Legal research methodology. Predominant activity in: guarantees and fundamental human rights; law and religion; legal pluralism; normative emergency; conflict mediation; administration and access to justice.
FROM THE GROUNDS TO THE STREETS AND COURTS: AFRO-RELIGIOUS LAW AND AGENCY IN BRAZIL
The religious presence in public space in Brazil is a well-known object of academic reflection. Concentrated mainly on the activities of sectors of Catholicism and Protestantism, the participation and related literature are less significant when it comes to the universe of Afro-Brazilian religions. Based on the action of some groups, these have, however, intensified their impact in public space through an agency that combines multiple strategies, extending both to the administrative, parliamentary and judicial arenas as well as to the streets and social networks. Using the methodological reference of Colette Pétonnet’s “floating observation”, the aim is to map and critically analyze the actions of entities and groups aimed at defending African-based religions in current Brazil. As an expected result, we seek a non-exhaustive mosaic of incidences that reveals the profile of Afro-religious agency, as well as its main impasses and challenges. The project is based on the hypothesis that, between judicialization of demands related to religious intolerance; preparation of prior consultation protocol; awareness campaigns; popular demonstrations or demands for patrimonialization, such actions seem to mix demands of different orders, in which the affirmation of religious practices as “culture” gives up relative space to their affirmation as “religion”, associating the fight against racism and the defense of religious freedom and diversity .