Daniela Vicherat Mattar (PhD European University Institute) convenes the Culture, History and Society major. Trained as a sociologist, her research focuses on cities, citizenship and, more recently, care. She’s interested in how dominant ideas about belonging translate in urban forms and infrastructures (like walls, public squares, markets, museums) and through urban aesthetics (graffiti and street art) in Europe and Latin America. Her portfolio at LUC is on the inter- and cross- disciplinary aspects of the curriculum, where her interest is to further explore the limits of disciplinary knowledge and teaching in relation to today’s global challenges. Recently Daniela has been awarded a Global Transformations and Governance Challenges (GTGC) grant for an inter-faculty project titled 'The many faces of food markets during COVID-19: Stories of solidarity and change through and with food'.

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Biography

Trained as a sociologist, prior to joining LUC, Daniela was Marie-Curie Fellow at the School of History in Edinburgh University. Her research focuses on cities, citizenship and, more recently, care. She’s interested in how dominant ideas about belonging translate in urban forms and infrastructures (like walls, public squares, markets, museums, etc) and through urban aesthetics (graffiti and street art) in Europe and Latin America. Researching the politics of belonging, she has looked at borders in relation to counter-hegemonic ideas and practices of citizenship and care. Her portfolio at LUC is on the inter- and cross- disciplinary aspects of the curriculum, where her interest is to further explore the limits of disciplinary knowledge and teaching in relation to today’s global challenges. She is currently the convener of the Culture, History and Society major.

Recently Daniela has been awarded a Global Transformations and Governance Challenges (GTGC) grant for an inter-faculty project titled 'The many faces of food markets during COVID-19: Stories of solidarity and change through and with food'.

Academic Expertise

• Border-making
• Citizenship
• Identity/belonging
• Vulnerability/care
• Public Spaces
• Walls

Courses

• Social Theory en Everyday Life
• Paradoxes of Citizenship
• Vulnerability, Gender and the Ethics of Care
• Case-studies in Diversity: Public spaces
• Research Design