State, finance, and logistics: Infrastructure financialisation and territorial restructuring in Brazil's commodity frontiers
Funding period: 1 April 2027 – 30 September 2027
Type of funding:
International Fellowship
DOI: https://doi.org/10.69752/JW6A-GV87
Award Number: USF-INT-261012
Dr Alexandre Mitsuro da Silveira Yassu is an architect, urbanist, and researcher based in São Paulo, Brazil. He holds a PhD in Territorial Planning and Management from the Federal University of ABC (UFABC) and a Master’s degree from the Institute for Urban and Regional Planning Research at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (IPPUR-UFRJ). He is an Associate Researcher at the Observatório das Metrópoles and at LEPUR-UFABC, where his work examines the nexus between the State, finance, and logistics in the restructuring of national space, with a focus on political economy, territorial governance, and socio-environmental conflict. As a scholar-practitioner, he also serves as a civil servant at the Municipal Secretariat for the Environment of São Paulo, where he is part of the coordinating team of the research partnership “Territórios da Água” with UFABC, funded by FAPESP, developing evidence-based public policy for the restoration and conservation of urban riverbanks in São Paulo.
As a USF International Fellow, Dr Yassu will spend six months at the University of Bologna (Department of the Arts), working under the mentorship of Prof Sandro Mezzadra (Full Professor, Department of the Arts). During the fellowship, he will work on publishing peer-reviewed articles derived from his doctoral research on rentier logistical technocracy and the financialisation of infrastructure in Brazil’s commodity frontiers, with a focus on the Arco Norte and the Tapajós Logistics Corridor.
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