Jussara dos Santos Raxlen

Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology

Primary Academic Program: Sociology

Biography: Jussara dos Santos Raxlen’s research focuses on the intersection of knowledge systems, power, and care. She is interested in how the politics and ethics of forms of knowing and ordering the world create spatial and symbolic boundaries that facilitate or burden social relations and individual well-being. Jussara's current research on long-term care for older adults in the US, in its current configuration of “aging in place," shows how, taken together, shifting welfare governance, medicine, technology, labor, gender, and immigration regimes give rise to one of the most intractable problems of the 21st century. She is working on a book manuscript based on this research while devising a participatory and creative intervention to engage people outside of academic spaces to think together about these issues.

Jussara teaches courses on knowledge, technology, and science; work and occupations; sociological, methodological, feminist, and decolonial theory; the racialized, classed, gendered, and sexed body; and care and caregiving. In addition, with her previous experiences as a theater performer and social theater practitioner in Brazil, Portugal, France, Germany, the Netherlands, and Lesotho as well as the US, she welcomes opportunities to participate in socially engaged art forms as a critical practice that produces collective knowledge about the social world, an urgent sociological task.

BA, SUNY Empire State University; MA, MPhil, PhD, The New School for Social Research.
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Location: Fairbairn
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