Luana Xavier Pinto Coelho
Biographic Data
| ID | 1025162 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Luana Xavier Pinto Coelho |
| GIVEN NAMES | Luana Xavier Pinto |
| FAMILY NAME | Coelho |
| SIGNATURE | COELHO L X P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Coimbra |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0600-1667 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Self-segregation dream
This paper explores the intertwined relationship between urban planning, the genealogy of racial property regimes, and residential segregation in postcolonial urban contexts. Through the lens of racial capitalism, the study revisits the history of Nova Lima to reveal the origins of a racial property regime and its enduring impact on contemporary land ownership and planning practices. Nova Lima, an affluent city in the Belo Horizonte metropolitan …
Precarious Settlement Upgrading and Racial Capitalism
A key critique of urban planning in postcolonial contexts is the persistence of Western/Eurocentric approaches that disregard the spatial production of Black and Indigenous populations as legitimate. In Brazil, despite shifts from authoritarian to democratic governments, racialised territories have consistently been subjected to state intervention. While policies have evolved—from deregulation and disinvestment to infrastructural investment—the u…
Decolonizing Urban Planning Research in Global South
Given that urban planning has served colonial and imperialist purposes, this commentary explores the existing challenges for early-career researchers conducting research designed in the Global North and carried out in/on the Global South. We offer a series of questions and provocations as an invitation to colleagues facing similar dilemmas to reflect on their own research from a decolonial methodological critique (theory, practice, and politics).…
Building the Inter-American Convention against Racism
This article examines the main controversies throughout the negotiation of a regional binding instrument to fight racism that led to the approval of the ‘Inter-American Convention against Racism, Racial Discrimination, and Related Forms of Intolerance’ in 2013. In order to identify the regimes of racism denial that shaped the process, the article explores the major controversies in terms of language, concepts, and the need for a more targeted bin…
Race and Space in the Postcolony
This article analyzes two planned cities—Belo Horizonte (Brazil) and Bloemfontein (South Africa)—to investigate connectivities across geographies and temporalities and reveal the role of urban planning in racial capitalism. Early works in urban sociology underscore the color line in producing differentiation in capitalist development. But color-blind analyses of capitalism have undermined the role of race in the urbanization process and formation…
Law and Order in Postcolonial Racial Cities
This work analyzes two class actions contesting the racial violence of Rio de Janeiro’s state police during operations in majority black neighborhoods, assessing both the narratives and social mobilization denouncing black genocide and the role of legal thinking in deviating or denying racism. The analysis of this case reveals that, on the one hand, spatial, racial and juridical structures - established by the racial colonial project and perpetua…
Direito à cidade contra o desenvolvimento
O artigo explora as formas pelas quais o direito à cidade e desenvolvimento são categorias opostas, em permanente tensão e disputa. Ao pensar o urbano recentralizando sujeitos e trajetórias historicamente desumanizadas, a partir das contribuições da crítica decolonial e antirracista, propomos que a vinculação política e jurídica da noção de direito à cidade à de desenvolvimento urbano captura e neutraliza as potencialidades da proposta lefebvrian…
Nem tudo é sobre raça”
“Nem tudo é sobre raça” é a frase que sintetiza os debates sobre o projeto para a Convenção Interamericana contra o Racismo e todas as formas de discriminação. Apesar da Declaração de Durban mostrar-se como um marco jurídico-político por reconhecer a relação entre colonialismo, escravização e racismo, ao analisar os documentos produzidos para o grupo de trabalho no âmbito da Organização de Estados Americanos (OEA) em período imediatamente posteri…
Race and Space in the Postcolony
This article analyzes two planned cities—Belo Horizonte (Brazil) and Bloemfontein (South Africa)—to investigate connectivities across geographies and temporalities and reveal the role of urban planning in racial capitalism. Early works in urban sociology underscore the color line in producing differentiation in capitalist development. But color-blind analyses of capitalism have undermined the role of race in the urbanization process and formation…
Decolonizing Urban Planning Research in Global South
Given that urban planning has served colonial and imperialist purposes, this commentary explores the existing challenges for early-career researchers conducting research designed in the Global North and carried out in/on the Global South. We offer a series of questions and provocations as an invitation to colleagues facing similar dilemmas to reflect on their own research from a decolonial methodological critique (theory, practice, and politics).…
Nem tudo é sobre raça”
“Nem tudo é sobre raça” é a frase que sintetiza os debates sobre o projeto para a Convenção Interamericana contra o Racismo e todas as formas de discriminação. Apesar da Declaração de Durban mostrar-se como um marco jurídico-político por reconhecer a relação entre colonialismo, escravização e racismo, ao analisar os documentos produzidos para o grupo de trabalho no âmbito da Organização de Estados Americanos (OEA) em período imediatamente posteri…
Direito à cidade contra o desenvolvimento
O artigo explora as formas pelas quais o direito à cidade e desenvolvimento são categorias opostas, em permanente tensão e disputa. Ao pensar o urbano recentralizando sujeitos e trajetórias historicamente desumanizadas, a partir das contribuições da crítica decolonial e antirracista, propomos que a vinculação política e jurídica da noção de direito à cidade à de desenvolvimento urbano captura e neutraliza as potencialidades da proposta lefebvrian…
Law and Order in Postcolonial Racial Cities
This work analyzes two class actions contesting the racial violence of Rio de Janeiro’s state police during operations in majority black neighborhoods, assessing both the narratives and social mobilization denouncing black genocide and the role of legal thinking in deviating or denying racism. The analysis of this case reveals that, on the one hand, spatial, racial and juridical structures - established by the racial colonial project and perpetua…
Race and Space in the Postcolony
This article analyzes two planned cities—Belo Horizonte (Brazil) and Bloemfontein (South Africa)—to investigate connectivities across geographies and temporalities and reveal the role of urban planning in racial capitalism. Early works in urban sociology underscore the color line in producing differentiation in capitalist development. But color-blind analyses of capitalism have undermined the role of race in the urbanization process and formation…
Building the Inter-American Convention against Racism
This article examines the main controversies throughout the negotiation of a regional binding instrument to fight racism that led to the approval of the ‘Inter-American Convention against Racism, Racial Discrimination, and Related Forms of Intolerance’ in 2013. In order to identify the regimes of racism denial that shaped the process, the article explores the major controversies in terms of language, concepts, and the need for a more targeted bin…
Precarious Settlement Upgrading and Racial Capitalism
A key critique of urban planning in postcolonial contexts is the persistence of Western/Eurocentric approaches that disregard the spatial production of Black and Indigenous populations as legitimate. In Brazil, despite shifts from authoritarian to democratic governments, racialised territories have consistently been subjected to state intervention. While policies have evolved—from deregulation and disinvestment to infrastructural investment—the u…
Decolonizing Urban Planning Research in Global South
Given that urban planning has served colonial and imperialist purposes, this commentary explores the existing challenges for early-career researchers conducting research designed in the Global North and carried out in/on the Global South. We offer a series of questions and provocations as an invitation to colleagues facing similar dilemmas to reflect on their own research from a decolonial methodological critique (theory, practice, and politics).…
Self-segregation dream
This paper explores the intertwined relationship between urban planning, the genealogy of racial property regimes, and residential segregation in postcolonial urban contexts. Through the lens of racial capitalism, the study revisits the history of Nova Lima to reveal the origins of a racial property regime and its enduring impact on contemporary land ownership and planning practices. Nova Lima, an affluent city in the Belo Horizonte metropolitan …
Political science (6 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Urban Planning and Governance (4 works) · Politics (3 works) · Urban and Rural Development Challenges (3 works) · Urban planning (3 works) · Capitalism (2 works) · Economics (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Geography (2 works)