Carvalho Higor

	?	Higor Carvalho is a PhD candidate and teaching assistant at the Environmental Governance and Territorial Development Institute. He is a Swiss Government Excellence Scholarship holder and works under the supervision of Prof. Armelle Choplin and Prof. Didier Péclard. He holds a Bachelor in Architecture and Urban Planning (玉美人传媒 of Sao Paulo), a Master's in Geography (玉美人传媒 Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne) and a Master's in Habitat (玉美人传媒 of Sao Paulo). For the last ten years, he has researched / worked in Brazil, France, Mexico, Reunion Island and China. In Brazil, he worked in governmental and parliamentary positions and, among others, was in charge of a 700,000-inhabitants city's Master Plan. He engages with social movements for the right to the city and has taken part in research projects for a diversity of bodies, including the United Nations and the United Cities and Local Governments, besides his own academic projects.?He collaborates as peer-reviewer in scientitic journals and co-supervises students’ research projects in his field.

Higor Carvalho is a PhD candidate and teaching assistant at the Environmental Governance and Territorial Development Institute. He is a Swiss Government Excellence Scholarship holder and works under the supervision of Prof. Armelle Choplin and Prof. Didier Péclard. He holds a Bachelor in Architecture and Urban Planning (玉美人传媒 of Sao Paulo), a Master's in Geography (玉美人传媒 Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne) and a Master's in Habitat (玉美人传媒 of Sao Paulo).

For the last ten years, he has researched / worked in Brazil, France, Mexico, Reunion Island and China. In Brazil, he worked in governmental and parliamentary positions and, among others, was in charge of a 700,000-inhabitants city's Master Plan. He engages with social movements for the right to the city and has taken part in research projects for a diversity of bodies, including the United Nations and the United Cities and Local Governments, besides his own academic projects.?He collaborates as peer-reviewer in scientitic journals and co-supervises students’ research projects in his field.

Research

The production of urban space is the core of Higor's research. He is interested in analysing its forms and agents of production as well as its social, economical and environmental effects in a diversity of geographies, focused in -but not limited to- the Global South. The effects of broader political and economical shifts over the making of the built environment (i.e. neoliberalism, financialization...) call particularly his attention. His current PhD research analyses the influence of Brazilian and Chinese capitals in the urbanization of Sub Saharan Africa, taking Angola as a study case.

Interests

The political economy of urbanization; the production of space, its forms (capitalist, socialist and others) and contradictions (spatial segregation, inequalities, informalities); Spatial Justice; Financial Geography; Urban Development and Planning; Real estate; Housing policies and markets; Social Movements; Gender, Race and Diversity in the city.

Research projects

2021 - When Brazil and China build the emerging Africa: capital flows and the production of space in Angola.

2020-2021 -

2019-2021 - The production of space with Chinese characteristics.

2013-2016 -

2011 -

2009-2010 - La ville comme un chantier d'affaires: la production du logement et de l’espace urbain par les grands promoteurs immobiliers en Ile-de-France.

2008-2009 - Campos Elíseos: Um bairro, um patrim?nio, uma cidade?: um caso historico de muta??o urbana e patrim?nio publico na cidade de S?o Paulo.

Teaching

: Ville et Mondialisation dans les Suds
: Géographie de la mondialisation
: Etat, territoires et développement en Afrique
: Public Policies for Spatial Justice
: Urban Futures Workshop

Publications

Books

CARVALHO, H. (2023). Habita??o social no Brasil e no México: transforma??es e permanências nas políticas públicas e na produ??o de mercado da moradia. [Social Housing in Brasil and Mexico : transformations and continuities in public policies and housing market production]. S?o Paulo: Terra Redonda, 168p.

Scientific Papers

?Book Chapters

CARVALHO, H., BELMONT, M. (2024). Planning beyond the status quo: feminism and insurgent planning at the Belo Horizonte City Council during the approval of the city Masterplan. In: ROCCO, R., SILVESTRE, G. (orgs). Insurgent Planning Practice. Agenda Publishing. Doi :
CARVALHO, H., ROYER, L., KARA-JOSE, B., ROCCO, R. Inequalities, social resilience and pandemics: the resistance of Paraisopolis slum, in S?o Paulo. In: RAJENDRAN, L. (org.). Learning resilience from the Global South. (in press).

?Papers presented in Conferences

CARVALHO, H.; CHOPLIN, A. (2022). Are financialization and gentrification also present in Africa? Paper for congress. International Geographic Union. 鲍苍颈惫别谤蝉颈迟é Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris, France.
CARVALHO, H. (2021). The production of space with Chinese characteristics. 5th Researching China Conference. 玉美人传媒 of Campinas, Campinas, Brazil.
CARVALHO, H. (2019). Housing production in the circuits of real estate and financial capitals reproduction in Latin America and Europe: the cases of Brazil, Mexico and France. FinGeo First Global Conference of Financial Geography. Beijing Normal 玉美人传媒, Beijing, China.
CARVALHO, H. (2014). Políticas de vivienda de interés social en la era de la acumulación financiera: un estudio comparado entre agentes y impactos en Brasil y México. XXXIII International Congress of LASA. San Juan, Porto Rico.
CARVALHO, H. (2014). Land Rights and the Place of Social Housing in the City: The Experience of Sao Paulo, Brazil. International Sociological Association. Yokohama, Japan.
CARVALHO, H., CALDEIRA, D. A. (2013). Housing under finance influence: the case of Sao Paulo, Brazil. International Sociological Association, RC43. 玉美人传媒 of Amsterdam, Centre of Urban Studies, The Netherlands.

Non-scientific papers

CARVALHO, H. (2022). Chicago. In: Pieroni, R., Staszak, J.F. Villes enchantées : Chansons et imaginaires géographiques. Chêne-Bourg, Georg Editions.
CARVALHO, H. (2022). La Montagne. In: Pieroni, R., Staszak, J.F. Villes enchantées : Chansons et imaginaires géographiques. Chêne-Bourg, Georg Editions.
HIRATA, M. S.; CARVALHO, H. (2015). Desigualdade globalizada: a situa??o da popula??o de rua no Jap?o (parte 2). In: O Trecheiro, Ano XXII ed. Mar?o 2015. Editora Paulus, Sao Paulo.
HIRATA, M. S.; CARVALHO, H. (2014). Desigualdade globalizada: a situa??o da popula??o de rua no Jap?o (parte 1). In: O Trecheiro, Ano XXI, ed. Setembro-outubro 2014. Editora Paulus, Sao Paulo.

Interventions

CARVALHO, H. (2023). Housing crisis, climate crisis. (Discussion paper). First Brazil Switzerland Network’s Conference, 玉美人传媒 of Zurich.

Events organization

2022 鲍苍颈惫别谤蝉颈迟é de Genève. Genève, Switzerland. African Urban Futures. – Member of the organizing committee along with professors A. Choplin, D. Péclard and S. Perrazone.
2019 Beijing Normal 玉美人传媒. Beijing, China. FinGeo First Global Conference of Finance Geography. Chair of panel: Financing and Regional Development.
2016 HABITAT III – United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development, Quito – Equator. Organization, in partnership with the UN-Habitat team of the Networking Event “Place Matters: affordable social housing in the centre of cities”, with representatives of housing policies institutes from Mexico, Thailand, Burkina Faso and Nepal.
2015 LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION. XXXIII LASA International Congress. San Juan, Puerto Rico. Chair of the Panel Session “Neoliberalismo y cambios en las políticas de vivienda, energía y abastos”.

M. Higor Carvalho

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