F.H. (Flávio) Eiró de Oliveira, PhD

Dr Flávio Eiró is a sociologist and political ethnographer. He has conducted ethnographic research on electoral politics and conditional cash transfers in Northeast Brazil. Flávio has published widely on issues surrounding politics, poverty and anti-poverty policies, policy implementation, with a special focus on Brazil, where Flávio comes from.

He is Assistant Professor (tenured) at the Faculty of Arts (Minorities & Multilingualism), University of Groningen. He is also Director of Studies of the University Minor Development Studies.

In the Minorities & Multilingualism group, Flávio teaches and researches issues related to diversity and minorities, with a focus on race/racism, far-right politics and colonialism.

He was a member of the Young Arts Research Network (YARN) (2020-2023).

Between 2017-2021, Flávio was Post-doctoral Researcher in the ERC-funded project ‘Participatory urban governance between democracy and clientelism: Brokers and (in)formal politics’, at the Radboud University Nijmegen.

He holds a PhD in Sociology from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, France. He also holds a MSc in Sociology from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (2012), a MSc in Sustainable Development from the University of Brasília (2011), as well as a BA in Social Sciences (Sociology) from the University of Brasília (2009).

KEY PUBLICATIONS

Book (Open Access): "A Política da Pobreza: A regulação de Direitos Sociais e Políticos no Nordeste do Brasil" [The politics of poverty: regulating social and political rights in Northeast Brazil], Lisboa: Etnográfica Press.

Special issues editing:

Haapajävi L, Vieujean O, Eiró F and Vollebergh A. (2023) Gouverner par les liens. Participations: Revue de sciences sociales sur la démocratie et la citoyenneté 35, 2023/2.

Mazzoli M, Joubert A, Lee S and Eiró F (2023) Language policy and diversity management for social justice. Journal of Language and Discrimination 7(2), 127-143.

Peer-reviewed articles:

Eiró F and Lotta G. (2024) On the frontline of global inequalities: a decolonial approach to the study of street-level bureaucracies. Journal of Public Administration Research & Theory, 34(1): 67–79.

Eiró F (2023) When a country doesn’t love its people back: a review of Gloria Wekker’s ‘White Innocence’, European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology, 10:4, 686-691.

Eiró F (2022) Translating politics into policy implementation: Welfare frontline workers in polarised Brazil. International Journal of Law in Context, 18(3): 303-316.

Eiró F (2022) Social work and class relations in the implementation of the Bolsa Família Programme in Northeast Brazil. Etnográfica, vol. 26(2): 533-553.

Moore A, Eiró F, and Koster M (2022) Illegal Housing in Medellín: Autoconstruction and the Materiality of Hope. Latin American Politics and Society, 64(4), 94-118.