Alex Vailati

Biographic Data

ID105342
NAMEAlex Vailati
GIVEN NAMESAlex
FAMILY NAMEVailati
SIGNATUREVAILATI A
AFFILIATIONSUniversidade Federal de Santa Catarina
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS13
TOTAL CITATIONS4
AUTHOR COUNT11
EDITOR COUNT2
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2012
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX1

  • Besnier Niko, Domenica Gisella Calabrò et Daniel Guinness (dir.), 2021, Sport, Migration, and Gender in the Neoliberal Age. Londres et New York, Routledge, 274 p

    Caroline Soares De Almeida, Alex Vailati et al.ARTICLEAnthropologie et Sociétés2024

    Besnier Niko, Domenica Gisella Calabrò et Daniel Guinness (dir.), 2021, Sport, Migration, and Gender in the Neoliberal Age. Londres et New York, Routledge, 274 p.. Un article de la revue Anthropologie et Sociétés (Le genre à l’épreuve du sport) diffusée par la plateforme Érudit

  • Museu Suape: Reflexões sobre a contramusealização dos acervos visuais

    Open AccessJúlia Morim, Júlia Morim De Melo et al.ARTICLEILUMINURAS2023Cited by: 1

    A descoberta de um acervo de filmes em Super 8, gravados na década de 1970, que registram a construção do Porto de Suape, em Pernambuco, é o foco deste artigo. Esses filmes foram acidentalmente encontrados durante projetos de extensão direcionados à comunidade local, que havia sido afetada por um vazamento de óleo. Inicialmente destinado ao esquecimento, o acervo despertou a necessidade de preservação e divulgação de seu conteúdo. A digitalização…

  • Ethnographies of ‘On Demand’ Films: Anthropological Explorations of Commissioned Audiovisual Productions

    Open AccessAlex Vailati, Gabriela Zamorano VillarrealBOOKEthnographies of 'on Demand' Films2021

  • Shooting Elites: An Ethnography of Wedding Film Production for Elites

    Open AccessAlex Vailati, Alex Giuliano VailatiCHAPTEREthnographies of 'on Demand' Films2021

  • Ethnographies of 'on Demand' Films: Anthropological Explorations of Commissioned Audiovisual Productions

    Alex Vailati, Gabriela Zamorano VillarealBOOKEthnographies of 'on Demand' Films2021

  • Anthropológicas podcast. Estéticas e políticas no campo público

    Open AccessAlex Vailati, Alex Giuliano Vailati et al.ARTICLEILUMINURAS2021Cited by: 2References: 1

    A quarentena compulsória impôs a muitos/as antropólogos/as o duplo desafio de desenvolver estratégias de pesquisa virtuais ou netnográficas e de produzir conteúdos sobre o contexto atual para mobilizar um debate informado pelas ciências sociais sobre a pandemia. A partir dessas considerações, um grupo de professores do Departamento de Antropologia e Museologia da Universidade Federal de Pernambuco lançou uma série de podcast, chamada de Anthropol…

  • Cidades globais e o desafio da Pandemia da Covid-19: Entrevista com Saskia Sassen

    Open AccessSassen, Daniel De Souza Leão Vieira et al.ARTICLENovos Debates2019

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  • Migration of Rich Immigrants: Gender, Ethnicity and Class

    Open AccessCarmen Silvia Moraes Rial, Alex Vailati et al.BOOKMigration of Rich Immigrants2016

    Migration of Rich Immigrants addresses flows of emigrants who establish themselves in other countries temporarily or permanently, in favorable economic conditions. Vailati and Rial explore these migra

  • Seeds of revolt. Intergenerational relationships in rural KwaZulu, South Africa

    Open AccessAlex Vailati, Alex Giuliano VailatiARTICLEHorizontes Antropológicos2015References: 6

    The social role of youth, in the last twenty years, has become a key point of the political agenda of many African nations. In South Africa, the consequences of segregationist politics, market economy and migrations have profoundly shaped the social and cultural role of youth, both in urban and rural contexts. Moreover, the end of apartheid has opened a new period of wide transformation. Based on my ethnographic research in KwaMashabane, a rural …

  • Ver À Distância: A Produção Audiovisual De Jovens Homens De Uma Área Rural Da África Do Sul

    Open AccessAlex Vailati, Alex Giuliano VailatiBOOKTessituras Revista de Antropologia…2014

    Este trabalho analisa a relação entre imaginação e produção audiovisual entre um grupo de jovens homens em KwaMashabane, uma área rural da África do Sul. Utilizando a metodologia vídeo-colaborativa, o estudo examina as relações de poder que permeiam a produção de vídeos, destacando o papel subalterno dos jovens locais. A análise do processo de produção revela diferentes níveis de hegemonia. Embora a autoridade dos adultos permaneça inquestionável…

  • Seeing in Distance: Video Production among Rural South African Youth

    Alex Vailati, Alex Giuliano VailatiARTICLEVisual Anthropology2014References: 13

    This article is based on ethnographic research in KwaMashabane, a rural area in KwaZulu–Natal province, South Africa. It looks at the relationship between imagination and audiovisual production among a youth group. Through the use of collaborative video, the power relations that underlie audiovisual production are analyzed. The subaltern role of youth in the local context and the analysis of production processes reveal different levels of hegemon…

  • Innovation patterns in grassroots producers' organisations: A Mozambican case study

    Carla Inguaggiato, Cecilia Navarra et al.ARTICLEJournal of Contemporary African…2013References: 21

    This paper analyses the role of rural producers' organisations as elements of innovation processes in contexts characterised by subsistence-level agricultural production. The primary focus is on a group of producers' associations – cooperatives – in the district of Morrumbala (Zambezia Province, Mozambique) where the authors conducted a case study. The interdisciplinary methodology used combines economic and anthropological methods of analysis. T…

  • New arenas for small media: Towards an ethnological exploration of family cinema

    Open AccessAlex Vailati, Alex Giuliano VailatiARTICLEVibrant Virtual Brazilian…2012Cited by: 1References: 9

    The advent of cheap, user friendly, video technology has created a huge revolution in representational agency. Videos are now made by production units that are at times comprised of families, churches, music groups, community associations or individuals. In this way, videos produced and distributed within local and atypical networks profoundly shape contemporary imaginaries. This article is an analysis of the so called family cinema phenomenon th…