Julia Sauma
Staff details

Julia Sauma (she/her) is a Brazilian-British and Deaf researcher whose work aims to develop detailed studies of how collective life is maintained within and against violent structures in metropolitan and frontier contexts in Brazil. She is particularly interested in the reshaping of self and collectivity that takes place to ensure the permanence of refuge, as an affective-ecological space. For the last seventeen years she has been working with Amazonian quilombo (maroon) families from the Erepecuru River (Pará State). More recently Julia has turned her attention to thinking about how collective spaces are sought, built and lost within violent academic spaces. Julia’s work also reflects on childhood and education, race and ethnicity, myth and memory, kinship and gender, disability and the body, and the place of miscommunication and disagreement in the making of collective knowledge.
Academic qualifications
- PhD in Anthropology, University College London 2014
- MA in Social Anthropology, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro 2007
Teaching and Supervision
Publications and research outputs
Article
Scott, D.; Pires, R. Brittes W. and Sauma, Julia F.. 2017. [Translation] Aquele evento, esta memória: notas sobre a antropologia das diásporas africanas no Novo Mundo. Ilha Revista de Antropologia, 19(2), pp. 277-312. ISSN 2175-8034
Pazzarelli, F.; Sauma, Julia F. and Hirose, M. B.. 2017. Apresentacao ao Dossie: (Contra)Mesticagens Amerindias e Afro-Americanas. R@U: Revista de Antropologia da UFSCAR, 9(2), pp. 9-10. ISSN 2175-4705
Sauma, Julia F.. 2016. Palavras carnais: sobre re-lembrar e re-esquecer, ser e não ser, entre os Filhos do Erepecuru. Revista de Antropologia, 59(3), pp. 150-173. ISSN 1678-9857
Sauma, Julia F.. 2014. Entrosar-se, uma reflexão etnográfica afroindígena. Cadernos de Campo, 23, pp. 257-270. ISSN 0104-5679
Viveiros de Castro, Eduardo; Sauma, Julia F. and Holbraad, Martin. 2013. Translation: The relative native. HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory, 3(3), pp. 473-502. ISSN 2575-1433
Sauma, Julia F.. 2008. Street encounters: betrayal and belonging in youth gangs. Public Policy Research, 15(1), pp. 32-35. ISSN 1744-5396
Sauma, Julia F.. 2006. Encontros cartografados: reflexões sobre encontros entre meninos e educadores de rua. Cadernos de Campo, 15(14-15), pp. 41-63. ISSN 0104-5679
Book Section
Sauma, Julia F.. 2019. Moramos no mundo dos invisíveis: sobreposição, ruptura e movimento em uma área coletiva quilombola. In: , ed. Paisagens Evanescentes: estudos sobre a percepção das transformações nas paisagens pelos moradores dos rios amazônicos. Belém (Brazil), Paris (France): NAEA, pp. 115-132. ISBN 9788571431836
Sauma, Julia F.. 2015. Consenso Unanime: Movimentos pela Tranquilidade e a Sobreposicao de Pensamentos entre os Coletivos Quilombolas de Oriximina. In: , ed. Entre Aguas Bravas e Mansas: Indios e Quilombolas em Oriximina. Sao Paulo, Brazil: CPI-SP & Iepe, pp. 235-251. ISBN 9788598046181
Edited Book
Holbraad, M.; Kapferer, B. and Sauma, Julia F., eds. 2019. Ruptures: Anthropologies of discontinuity in times of turmoil. London: UCL Press. ISBN 9781787356184
Edited Journal
Pazzarelli, F.; Sauma, Julia F. and Hirose, M. B., eds. 2017. (Contra)Mesticagens Amerindias e Afro-Americanas, R@U: Revista de Antropologia da UFSCAR, 9(2). 2175-4705
Thesis
Sauma, Julia F.. 2014. The Deep and the Erepecuru: Tracing Transgressions in an Amazonian Quilombola Territory. Doctoral thesis, UCL (University College London)
Further profile content
Featured publications
Goldsmiths Research Centres/Groups
Research projects
2020:
Extort: Anthropologies of Extortion
ERC Advanced Grant, PI: Professor Lucia Michelutti
Media engagements
Conferences and talks
2022: What is the Work of Anthropology? Who is Included?
Office Hours (Academic Year 2022-2023)
Personal Tutor Office Hours: Mondays 1.30pm-3.30pm (book a slot via this link: https://outlook.office.com/bookwithme/user/d70247ecea1841ffacc696d6275b4b31@gold.ac.uk/meetingtype/E1zlnu6ZaUa79GG6YURMaA2?anonymous).
Senior Tutor Hours: Mondays 3pm-5pm (email me).