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My name is Andrea Roman Alfaro [two last names]. My pronouns are she/ella. I am a Peruvian Ph.D. candidate in sociology at the University of Toronto. I was born and raised in the coastal province of Callao, but my family roots are in the Peruvian northern Andes, northern Lima, and the south of Spain. I currently reside in Tkaronto [Toronto], the treaty lands and territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation and the traditional territory of the Huron-Wendat and the Haudenosaunee peoples.
My research agenda looks at how race, class, and gender shape the relationship between social inequality and violence and the survival strategies people use to respond to violence at the urban margins. My work has been supported by the Vanier Candada Graduate scholarship, the Ontario Graduate Scholarship, the Connaught Public Impact Fellowship, the Mary H. Beatty Fellowship, and the School of Cities Graduate Fellowship at the University of Toronto. |
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I analyze definitions, experiences, and responses to violence at the individual, community, and state levels by exploring how violence moves between the home and the street and within communities and state institutions. I focus on three main questions:
1) What are the cultural narratives and processes that affect how we make sense of violence? 2) How do class, race, and gender affect our definitions, experiences, and responses to violence? 3) How do we respond, resist, and heal from violence? Together, these questions contribute to understanding the social dynamics and political processes that make violence possible. |
My research agenda on violence and social inequality is international and comparative. My work has been published in Gender & Society, Social Justice, Curriculum Inquiry, and the International Journal of Education for Social Justice.
My dissertation, “Interconnected Violence: Life and Death at the Urban Margins,” examines how women from Puerto Nuevo, a shantytown in Callao, the second deadliest district of Peru, interpret and respond to violence in daily life and how state actors’ reactions to violence affect marginalized communities. Using a wide-variety of qualitative methods, I connect citizens’ experiences of violence to the political decisions that shape violence governance at the urban margins.
My dissertation, “Interconnected Violence: Life and Death at the Urban Margins,” examines how women from Puerto Nuevo, a shantytown in Callao, the second deadliest district of Peru, interpret and respond to violence in daily life and how state actors’ reactions to violence affect marginalized communities. Using a wide-variety of qualitative methods, I connect citizens’ experiences of violence to the political decisions that shape violence governance at the urban margins.
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I am a scholar and activist who combines research with community work and advocacy. I firmly believe in the transformative power of engaged scholarship. Thus, I spend a lot of my time working with community, collectively responding to social justice issue, and creating alternatives for a more just future. I am the General Vice President of CUPE 3902, the union that represents more than 10,000 academic workers at the University of Toronto. I am also a co-founder of La Casa Juvenil - Puerto Nuevo, a youth community centre in Puerto Nuevo (Callao, Peru) that offers a space for children and adults to come together to learn and spend a good time. You can support the work that we do here.
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