We are delighted to announce that Dr Matthew Richmond, currently a Visiting Fellow of the Latin America and Caribbean Centre, has been awarded a three-year Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship to carry out his research project "Distributed Governance: The Management of Unruly Spaces in São Paulo".
This project will develop the concept of "distributed governance" to examine how urban space, people, and activities are managed in different parts of São Paulo. Distributed governance refers to complex, multi-sided, continually negotiated arrangements between diverse state, private-sector, civil-society, and criminal actors.
Such arrangements have been documented across a wide range of Latin American cities, yet they remain poorly understood. Through qualitative research conducted in case sites in the centre and periphery of São Paulo, the project will explore the conditions that give rise to distributed governance, its relational dynamics, and its consequences for everyday life and citizenship.