Books By Bianca Freire-Medeiros, Julia O'Donnell - Author

Bianca Freire-Medeiros, PhD, is Sociology Professor at University of São Paulo (USP, Brazil) and coordinator of the UrbanData-Brazil databank. She is one of the main references for those interested in the so-called poverty-tourism field in Brazil and abroad. Her book Touring Poverty (Routledge, 2013, 2015), as well as the documentary film based on her research project, A Place to Take Away (2012), have been highly praised both in and outside academia. Her work has been published in several languages and she was a Visiting Researcher at Princeton University, El Colegio de Mexico and Lancaster University, and a Tinker Visiting Professor at the University of Texas at Austin.

Julia O'Donnell, PhD, graduated in History (University of São Paulo-USP, Brazil) and holds a PhD in Social Anthropology from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ, Brazil), where she is currently an Assistant Professor. Her research interests are the urban