I am developing my doctoral research in partnership with the Postgraduate Program in Collective Health, from Federal University of Mato Grosso (UFMT), in Brazil, under the scope of the Project "Promotion of Healthy and Sustainable Territories", with funding from the Brazilian Ministry of Labour.

My research reveals the persistence of Contemporary Slavery in Traditional Communities affected in the past by Colonial Slavery, and aims, through the empowerment of Communities, to systematize possibilities to break the chain of slavery.

It is clear that for a territory free from slavery to exist, it must first and foremost be Healthy and Sustainable, with environmental preservation, cultural preservation, health promotion, access to land and water, poverty reduction, food sovereignty and access to education.

Therefore, my work has a transdisciplinary perspective, with partners from different areas of science, to think about comprehensive healthy and sustainable practices, whising to contribute with the Developement Sustainable Goals, from the United Nations.

I have a special interest in the following themes: contemporary slave labour; rural labour; worker's health; environmental health; sustainability; and agribusiness.

Professional Activities

Moral economy at the crossroads of history and social science: finding customs in common?: Chair; 12/3/2025
Journal of Rural and Community Development (Journal): Peer reviewer; 7/2024
Confronting the degradation of labour and the nature in agro-industrial commodity chains in Brazil: the ‘quilombolas’ resistance: Speaker; 4/4/2024
Protective and Destructive Processes for the occurrence of contemporary slavery among quilombola workers in the state of Mato Grosso: Speaker; 7/3/2024
Contemporary issues for land, labour precarity and resistance Centre for Political Economy of Labour Colloquium programme: Participant; 7/3/2024
SLAVELABOUR IN THE FASHION INDUSTRY IN BRAZIL AND CAMOUFLAGE THROUGH OUTSOURCING: AN ANALYSIS OF THE FAST FASHION MODEL AND WORKING CONDITIONS IN SEWING WORKSHOPS IN SÃO PAULO – SP: Examiner; 20/2/2024

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Promotion of Healthy and Sustainable Territories in Mato Grosso (Original title: Promoção de Territórios Saudáveis e Sustentáveis em Mato Grosso): Vasquez Pistorio, Bianca (Researcher) Corrêa, Márcia Leopoldina Montanari (Principal Investigator) Pignati, Wanderlei (Co-investigator) Neves, Maelison (Co-investigator) Soares, Mariana Rosa (Researcher) Machado, Jorge Mesquita Huet (Researcher) Coutinho, Kesley Gabriel Bezerra (Researcher) Beserra, Lucimara (Researcher); This research project is coordinated by researcher Professor Marcia Leopoldina Montanari Corrêa, from the Collective Health Institute (ISC), at the Federal University of Mato Grosso (UFMT) - Brazil, with resources from the Public Ministry of Labor (MPT) of Mato Grosso-Brazil.
This project investigates the relationship between the process of production and social reproduction in the productive context of agribusiness in Mato Grosso-Brazil, and its effects on the epidemiological profile of populations, based on the characterization of occupational and socio-environmental risks of production chains in the territory.
The researcher Bianca Pistorio is a partner of this project, where she is devoloping her thesis as a part of this big umbrella project.
This project had Ethical approval in Brazil by CEP/CONEP on 02/26/2021.; 26-Jan-2021 - 31-Jan-2025

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