The Complexities of Domestic Violence Reporting in Brazil
Oct 25, 2024 — 12 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.
The conference will be based on the ethnography produced by Camila from her master's research, which also focuses on the theme of gender violence. In this work, she recounted public complaints from women victims of domestic violence, who filed complaints at a police station specialized in attending to women in Rio de Janeiro and on Facebook groups dedicated to the support of victims of domestic violence. From this fieldwork, she aims to highlight the extremely diverse and complex situations usually involving the complaints, the sensibilities and moralities mobilized by the police officers dealing with them, and also to discuss the different motivations, meanings, expectations, outcomes, and further developments of these complaints.
Talk by Camila Belisario
Camila Belisario is a PhD candidate in the Anthropology program at Universidade Federal Fluminense (PPGA/UFF) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where she also earned her Master’s degree. She holds a bachelor's degree in Journalism from Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. Camila is an active member of the Group of Ethnographies in the Anthropology of Law and Moralities (GEPADIM/UFF) and the Transnational Research Network on Deprived, Violated, and Violent Maternities (REMA), as well as a research member at INCT/InEAC (Institute for Comparative Studies in Institutional Conflict Management). Her current research focuses on the production and utilization of evidence in judicial processes related to gender violence, with a particular emphasis on domestic violence and femicide.