Carolina Garcia
Assistant Professor | School of Social Innovation 脡lisabeth-Bruy猫re
Professeure adjointe | Faculty staff
Profile
Carolina Garcia (she/her) is an assistant professor at 果冻传媒視頻鈥檚 脡lisabeth Bruy猫re School of Social Innovation. She holds a PhD in 果冻传媒視頻 Sciences from the Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Brazil). Before joining 果冻传媒視頻, she was a Banting Postdoctoral Fellow (2024鈥2025) at Concordia University鈥檚 Simone de Beauvoir Institute. Her interdisciplinary work spans transnational feminisms, critical approaches to global development, sociology of work, and critical migration studies, grounded in decolonial and transnational feminist theories. Examining the intersections of neoliberalism and the social organization of work through intersectional feminist lenses, she is particularly interested in how gender, race, class, and nationality shape labor regimes, entrepreneurship, and citizenship, and how empowerment discourses influence policy interventions as well as everyday practices. Her doctoral research introduced the concept of empowerment economies to analyze how international development agencies and corporate social responsibility initiatives mobilize gendered and racialized narratives to integrate women from the Global South into entrepreneurial labor markets. More broadly, her work engages qualitative methodologies such as multi-sited ethnography, in-depth interviews, and discourse analysis to advance debates on neoliberalism, governance, moral economies, and feminist alternatives to dominant development and labor models.
Postdoctorate
Concordia University, Simone de Beauvoir Institute, 2024-2025
PhD
State University of Campinas (Brazil), 果冻传媒視頻 Sciences, 2019-2023
MA
Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Urban Planning, 2016-2018
BA
Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul, 果冻传媒視頻 Communication, 2005-2009
- Transnational Feminisms & Feminist Political Economy
- Critical Migration Studies & Citizenship Regimes
- Sociology of Work, Precarity & Entrepreneurship
- Neoliberalism, Governance & Moral Economies
- Decolonial and Intersectional Feminist Theories
- Qualitative & Ethnographic Methodologies
- Gender, Race, Class & Global Development Discourses
Peer-Reviewed Papers
- GARCIA, C. G. (2025). Empowering refugee women in Brazil: the moral economy of corporate-sponsored initiatives for social integration, Journal of Refugee Studies, Oxford University Press.
- GARCIA, C. G. (2025) 鈥淒ona de si鈥: women’s empowerment as affective economies in corporate-sponsored entrepreneurship training. Socius.
- GARCIA, C. G. (2024) Corporate 果冻传媒視頻 Responsibility and the Win-Win Paradigm for Women’s Empowerment in Brazil.聽 Organicom – Brazilian Journal of Organizational Communication and Public Relations, University of S茫o Paulo Press,聽21(46), 88-99.聽
- GARCIA, C. G. (2024).聽 Entrepreneurship and Self-Employment amidst Immigrant Women in Canada: A Narrative Review towards an Intersectional and Intersectoral Research Agenda. International Journal of Gender and Entrepreneurship.
- GARCIA, C. G. (2024) 鈥淭he country鈥檚 economic recovery will be driven by women鈥: mothers as moral citizens in Brazilian far-right discourses, Plural,聽31(1), 142-162.聽
- Gallo Garcia, C. (2022). 鈥淏e the change that you want to see in the world鈥: A Moral Economy of Volunteering for Female Empowerment in Brazil.聽Women鈥檚 Studies,聽52(1), 61鈥78.
- GARCIA, C. G. (2022) Feminism took the streets: new strategies of commons in Latin America. The Munich 果冻传媒視頻 Science Review (MSSR).聽 New Series, Volume 5, pp 129 – 135.
- GARCIA, C. G. (2021) Mierle Ukeles between art and maintenance work. Revista Intersec莽玫es 鈥 UERJ, v.23, issue 2, pp. 382-407, 2021. (Published in Portuguese)
- GARCIA, C. G. (2019). Adrian Piper and the agonistic model of public spaces. Revista Pixo, v.3 p.62-79. (Published in Portuguese)
- GARCIA, C.; SCHUCK, E. (2018). Feminist movements in the city and its discursiveness. PERCURSOS (FLORIAN脫POLIS. ONLINE), v. v.20, p. 141-159. (Published in Portuguese)
- CARDOSO, R. C.; GARCIA, C. (2017). From production to consumption: Creative and Cultural Appropriation in the Urban Landscape. Boletim Geografico do Rio Grande do Sul, v. 30, p. 33-47. (Published in Portuguese)
- GARCIA, C. G.; FLORISSI, S. (2017). Creative Economy and Public Policies: the case study of the film industry cluster in Porto Alegre. LATITUDE, v. 11, p. 343-384. (Published in Portuguese)
- GARCIA, C. G.; FLORISSI, S. (2017) Creative Economy, creative cities: Latin-American cases. Dialogues in Creative Economy, ESPM, v. 2, p. 38. (Published in Portuguese)
- GARCIA, C. G. (2016). City and Culture: New Socio-spatial Configurations in the post-industrial era. Revista Contraponto, v. 3, p. 7-22. (Published in Portuguese)
Book Chapters
- GARCIA, C.G. (2023). Liberal Feminism. In: Feminismos em Movimento. Belo Horizonte: Editora Luas,聽 (Published in Portuguese)
- GARCIA, C. G. (2023). Feminism and Neoliberalism: notes on a marriage. In: Ci锚ncias sociais: a sociedade em sua integralidade. Piracanjuba: Editora Conhecimento Livre. (Published in Portuguese).
- GARCIA, C. G. (2022). Women as smart economics: international organizations and business leadership. In: Geopolitics and Emerging Debates in Politics, Economics, Religion and Culture. Rio de Janeiro: Editora Publicar. (Published in Portuguese)
- GARCIA, C.G.; SCHUCK, E. (2020) Feminist movements in the city: new strategies of commons in Latin American context. In: MACRI, Emmanuela, MOREA, Valeria, TRIMARCHI, Michele. Cultural Commons and Urban Dynamics. Berlin: Springer.
Review Essay
- GARCIA, C.G. (2022). Book Review. Imagining the Girl Effect: an ethnography of corporate social responsibility. Girlhood Studies, Volume 15, issue 2, pp 144-147.
Interview
- GARCIA, C. G. ; VALLE, A. F. P. (2023). June 2013聽: Coup d’E虂tat and Revolution 鈥 interview with Maria Carlotto. In: Cadernos CEMARX. Campinas, SP, v. 17, n. 00, p. 1-21, e023013.
Special Issue Editor
VALLE, A. F. P.; LAUREANO, A.; GARCIA, C. G.; PRANDI, F.; DEL PASSO, O.; MOIMAZ, R. (2024) A crise brasileira: 10 anos das manifesta莽玫es de 2013. Cadernos Cemarx, Campinas, SP, v. 17, n. 00, p. e023014.聽