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You can find me on twitter here, or drop me a message:

livio.silva@graduateinstitute.ch

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Hello! I’m a Ph.D. candidate in Sociology at the Geneva Graduate Institute.

I’m interested in
how states, markets, and societies can — and hopefully will— decarbonise and redistribute in global and comparative perspectives. To answer related questions, I mobilize concepts from political, environmental, and economic sociologies. I rely on various methodological tools, from in-depth interviews and archival work to surveys and computational approaches.

My dissertation and book project, “The Amazon as a Global Carbon Sink”, unpacks environmental state-building—it’s national and transnational processes, and symbolic dimensions—in Brazil from 1985 to 2024. I also work for my supervisor, Prof. Graziella Moraes Silva, in a five-year research endeavour about how CEOs, congresspeople, and high-level bureaucrats shape the politics of redistribution in Brazil and South Africa.

My
research has received awards from the American Sociological Association (ASA) and the Latin American Studies Association (LASA). It has also been supported by the Swiss Network for International Studies (SNIS), the Swiss State Secretariat for Education, Research, and Innovation (SERI), and the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF).

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