Vita

Léa Tosold is an interdisciplinary researcher and activist. She works in the subdivision project “Human Rights Discourse in The Political Protests from Refugees and Undocumented Migrants in Germany and in the USA”, which is part of the research project “Human Rights Discourse in the Migration Society” (MeDiMi). Previously, she was postdoctoral researcher at the Cluster of Excellence SCRIPTS (Free University Berlin) and postdoctoral junior fellow at the Maria Sybilla Merian Center Conviviality-Inequality in Latin America (Mecila). She holds an MA in Romanistik, Philosophy and Political Science (University of Vienna), as well as in Political Philosophy (University of York), and a PhD in Political Science (University of São Paulo). Her PhD thesis (2018), based on feminist anti-racist epistemologies, rethinks collective forms of existence as resistance in Latin American contexts in which violence is naturalized and ongoing. Among others, she is a member of the Anti-Racist and Anticolonial Studies Intervention Collective (Gira) and of the São Paulo’s Solidarity Committee to the Resistance Struggles in the Tapajós River Region (Comtapajós).