Rosa Dos Ventos Lopes Heimer
Biographic Data
| ID | 936876 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rosa Dos Ventos Lopes Heimer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rosa Dos Ventos Lopes |
| FAMILY NAME | Heimer |
| SIGNATURE | HEIMER R V L |
| AFFILIATIONS | King's College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5769-788X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Embodied counter-mapping of gendered urban violence and resistance across body-community–city territories in Rio de Janeiro
Intersectional injustices
Embodying intimate border violence
This paper argues for the decolonial feminist potential of multi-layered arts-research collaborations for critical research committed to advancing migrant justice. It reflects on the art-research collaborative project, 'stitching voices, stitching bodies', investigating the gendered, racialised, colonial and geopolitical dynamics of violence and resistance of Latin American migrant women. Collaborators included the author and visual artist Nina F…
Bodies as territories of exception
Based on research with Latin American women in England, this paper explores how coloniality and gendered necropower is structurally embedded into the UK immigration regime, enabling multi-scalar (re)configurations of border violence. I build on the everyday bordering literature to uncover the under-theorised intimate and embodied dimensions of border violence. Intimate border violence is coined to refer to specific forms of state-sponsored interp…
Travelling Cuerpo-Territorios
Global North migration studies have historically been marked by colonising discourses partially stemming from methodological nationalism tendencies and a limited engagement with the body. In particular, Anglophone studies on intimate partner violence against migrant women have largely reproduced problematic gendered culturalist representations, which may be symptomatic of a methodological scarcity of research with, for and/or by – rather than abo…
Homonationalist/Orientalist Negotiations
By bringing together the theoretical lenses of homonationalism and orientalism, this paper is intended to help the understanding of how tensions were negotiated between representations of the UK as a protector of LGBTI rights and its policies on (queer) asylum. Through a discourse analysis of the Supreme Court decision on HJ (Iran) and HT (Cameroon) v. Secretary of State for the Home Department (2010) and subsequent sexuality-based asylum tribuna…
Travelling Cuerpo-Territorios
Global North migration studies have historically been marked by colonising discourses partially stemming from methodological nationalism tendencies and a limited engagement with the body. In particular, Anglophone studies on intimate partner violence against migrant women have largely reproduced problematic gendered culturalist representations, which may be symptomatic of a methodological scarcity of research with, for and/or by – rather than abo…
Embodying intimate border violence
This paper argues for the decolonial feminist potential of multi-layered arts-research collaborations for critical research committed to advancing migrant justice. It reflects on the art-research collaborative project, 'stitching voices, stitching bodies', investigating the gendered, racialised, colonial and geopolitical dynamics of violence and resistance of Latin American migrant women. Collaborators included the author and visual artist Nina F…
Homonationalist/Orientalist Negotiations
By bringing together the theoretical lenses of homonationalism and orientalism, this paper is intended to help the understanding of how tensions were negotiated between representations of the UK as a protector of LGBTI rights and its policies on (queer) asylum. Through a discourse analysis of the Supreme Court decision on HJ (Iran) and HT (Cameroon) v. Secretary of State for the Home Department (2010) and subsequent sexuality-based asylum tribuna…
Homonationalist/Orientalist Negotiations
By bringing together the theoretical lenses of homonationalism and orientalism, this paper is intended to help the understanding of how tensions were negotiated between representations of the UK as a protector of LGBTI rights and its policies on (queer) asylum. Through a discourse analysis of the Supreme Court decision on HJ (Iran) and HT (Cameroon) v. Secretary of State for the Home Department (2010) and subsequent sexuality-based asylum tribuna…
Travelling Cuerpo-Territorios
Global North migration studies have historically been marked by colonising discourses partially stemming from methodological nationalism tendencies and a limited engagement with the body. In particular, Anglophone studies on intimate partner violence against migrant women have largely reproduced problematic gendered culturalist representations, which may be symptomatic of a methodological scarcity of research with, for and/or by – rather than abo…
Bodies as territories of exception
Based on research with Latin American women in England, this paper explores how coloniality and gendered necropower is structurally embedded into the UK immigration regime, enabling multi-scalar (re)configurations of border violence. I build on the everyday bordering literature to uncover the under-theorised intimate and embodied dimensions of border violence. Intimate border violence is coined to refer to specific forms of state-sponsored interp…
Intersectional injustices
Embodying intimate border violence
This paper argues for the decolonial feminist potential of multi-layered arts-research collaborations for critical research committed to advancing migrant justice. It reflects on the art-research collaborative project, 'stitching voices, stitching bodies', investigating the gendered, racialised, colonial and geopolitical dynamics of violence and resistance of Latin American migrant women. Collaborators included the author and visual artist Nina F…
Embodied counter-mapping of gendered urban violence and resistance across body-community–city territories in Rio de Janeiro
Gender Studies (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Political science (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Sex work and related issues (4 works) · Criminology (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (3 works) · Domestic violence (2 works)