Ph.D. candidate
About
Hi, I'm Mari Aparecida. I focus on Latin American and North American policing and abolitionist archvies. My work forwards a global transimperial colonial critique of violent policing as a tool to articulate a workable peace in matters of race, class, indegeneity, and gender. My current project centers Brazil and the U.S.. My dissertation investigates a cultural history of the global phenomenon of police Pacification (militarized violent policing that is carried out in the name of peace or to pacify specific territories of the contemporary nation-state). My research explores how an "Imagined Repository of Pacification," a conceptual archive of archives of violent policing since the beginning of the colonial era, can be consulted and interpreted to heal contemporary relationships to policing and the carceral territoriality this policing produces.
My dissertation's working title is How to Hear Noise in Times of Peace: An Abolitionist Transimperial Cultural History of Pacification in the U.S. and Latin America (Expected July-August 2022). I am also a museum gallery design expert and a trained collections manager for art and history collections who focuses on public-facing projects that promote public dialogue across museums and universities on the subject of abolitionist decolonial takes on race, indigeneity, gender, and class.
