This lecture is part of the ZILAS Winter Lecture Series 2025/26.
Maria Lidola. Department of Sociology at the University of Konstanz, where she has been teaching and conducting research since February 2017. She completed her PhD in Anthropology at the Freie Universität Berlin in 2014 and was affiliated with the Latin American Institute (LAI) from 2009 to 2015 as both a researcher and lecturer. Before her current position, she was a postdoctoral fellow of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and visiting scholar at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Brazil. Her thematic research interests include the anthropology of care, public health and South-South cooperation, post- and decolonial theory, gender studies and intersectionality, migration and migrant entrepreneurship, urban anthropology, ethnographic methods, mining, as well as audiovisual and multimodal ethnography. Regionally, her work focuses on Latin America—particularly Brazil and Cuba—on transnational entanglements between Latin America and Europe, and on Germany, with a specific interest in the Lausitz (Lusatia) coal mining region.