Luana Gama Gato
Biographic Data
| ID | 4151523 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Luana Gama Gato |
| GIVEN NAMES | Luana Gama |
| FAMILY NAME | Gato |
| SIGNATURE | GATO L G |
| AFFILIATIONS | KU Leuven |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4110-129X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Gendered encounters in mobility
Writing about sexism and sexual harassment in the field is still generally discouraged outside gender ethnography, despite a growing gender reflexivity in research. This is mostly due to certain established norms and expectations about ethnographic work that tend to ignore how these issues contribute to women's fieldwork experiences and subsequent ethnographic accounts. In this article, we go against this tendency by setting out our gendered expe…
Contesting the brand
Cities worldwide consider the hosting of sport mega-events such as the Olympics as a strategy to improve their global image through strengthening the local ‘brand’. This image construction is strongly influenced by how the event and the host city are covered in the media worldwide, both in the run-up to and during the event, and goes beyond what is covered in relation to sports. To gain insight into how mega-event imaginaries and their associated…
Constructing a city, building a life
This article provides an ethnographic analysis of domestic labor mobility among Brazilian construction workers in the context of the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. We start from the premise that mobile laborers are crucial for the physical development and expansion of cities. However, the importance of domestic migrants in this process is insufficiently addressed in mobility studies. Building on existing research on domestic population m…
Mega-Event Mobilities
Global sports events are rarely far from the public eye. Such mega-events are about much more than the sporting competitions themselves. They entail global exposure and intense struggles by different stakeholders.This is the first book to examine sports mega-events from a mobilities perspective. It analyses the ‘mobile construction’ of global sports mega-events and the role this plays in managing labour, imaginaries, policies and legacies. In par…
Contesting the brand
Cities worldwide consider the hosting of sport mega-events such as the Olympics as a strategy to improve their global image through strengthening the local ‘brand’. This image construction is strongly influenced by how the event and the host city are covered in the media worldwide, both in the run-up to and during the event, and goes beyond what is covered in relation to sports. To gain insight into how mega-event imaginaries and their associated…
Constructing a city, building a life
This article provides an ethnographic analysis of domestic labor mobility among Brazilian construction workers in the context of the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. We start from the premise that mobile laborers are crucial for the physical development and expansion of cities. However, the importance of domestic migrants in this process is insufficiently addressed in mobility studies. Building on existing research on domestic population m…
Mega-Event Mobilities
Global sports events are rarely far from the public eye. Such mega-events are about much more than the sporting competitions themselves. They entail global exposure and intense struggles by different stakeholders.This is the first book to examine sports mega-events from a mobilities perspective. It analyses the ‘mobile construction’ of global sports mega-events and the role this plays in managing labour, imaginaries, policies and legacies. In par…
Contesting the brand
Cities worldwide consider the hosting of sport mega-events such as the Olympics as a strategy to improve their global image through strengthening the local ‘brand’. This image construction is strongly influenced by how the event and the host city are covered in the media worldwide, both in the run-up to and during the event, and goes beyond what is covered in relation to sports. To gain insight into how mega-event imaginaries and their associated…
Constructing a city, building a life
This article provides an ethnographic analysis of domestic labor mobility among Brazilian construction workers in the context of the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. We start from the premise that mobile laborers are crucial for the physical development and expansion of cities. However, the importance of domestic migrants in this process is insufficiently addressed in mobility studies. Building on existing research on domestic population m…
Gendered encounters in mobility
Writing about sexism and sexual harassment in the field is still generally discouraged outside gender ethnography, despite a growing gender reflexivity in research. This is mostly due to certain established norms and expectations about ethnographic work that tend to ignore how these issues contribute to women's fieldwork experiences and subsequent ethnographic accounts. In this article, we go against this tendency by setting out our gendered expe…
Social science (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Geography (3 works) · Context (archaeology (2 works) · Economics (2 works) · Ethnography (2 works) · Mobilities (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Population (2 works) · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts (2 works)