ABOUT PROFESSOR MAURÍCIO WALDMAN

 



Professor Maurício Waldman is an Brazilian anthropologist, author, journalist, and academic researcher.  Maurício Waldman was born in São Paulo on 2 December 1955 to a Jewish family from Poland and Italy. Since March 2021, Waldman has been a Senior Researcher at Africa Research Institute - Doctoral School for Safety and Security Sciences of ÓBudai University, Budapest, Hungary.

As an activist, Maurício Waldman collaborated with Chico Mendes and several organizations, including Comitê de Apoio aos Povos da Floresta (Forest People Committee), the African Studies Centre of São Paulo University (USP), and Centro Ecumênico de Documentação e Informação – CEDI (Ecumenical Centre of Documentation and Information, in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro). He also participated in activist movements against dams, anti-nuclear demonstrations, and especially against water pollution in São Paulo. 

He became Director of the Children Homeless' School of São Paulo in 1998, Director of the Fundação Estadual do Bem Estar do Menor' School in 1999, coordinator of São Paulo Recycling Service in 2000, and Editor of the Brazilian Geographers' Association (AGB) São Paulo Sector, from 2002 to 2003.

The intellectual trajectory of Maurício Waldman is plural and independent, incorporating works in geography, anthropology, sociology, and international relations. These studies have been included in debates about public policies, in the academic field, and in social mobilizations. 


In 2004, in a survey by the Brazilian Center for Analysis and Planning (CEBRAP), he was one of 30 historical environmentalists in the State of São Paulo. In 2010, based on the evaluation of US researchers, he was included in a list of 96 Brazilian personalities of Jewish origin, published by Books LLC under the title Brazilian Jews (Memphis, USA, 2010)


Waldman received his Anthropology M.Sc. degree from USP in 1997 and his Ph.D. degree from the Geography Department of USP in 2006. His thesis, Water and Metropolis: Limits and Expectations of the Time, is one of the most detailed academic works on Brazilian water resources and water management in the Metropolitan Region of São Paulo.

Subsequently, with the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) support, Waldman conducted postdoctoral research from 2010 to 2011 at the Geography Department of the Geoscyenses Institute at the University of Campinas. 

This research focused on municipal solid waste in Brazil, led to several papers and lectures, and finally, a book, Lixo: Cenários e Desafios ("Waste: Scenarios and Challenges"), launched in August 2010 at the São Paulo International Book Fair. In September 2011, this book was selected as a finalist in the Prêmio Jabuti, the most influential literary awards in Brazil.  

Also, in 2011, Waldman began his second Postdoctoral Research project at USP's Faculty of Philosophy, Languages-Literature and Human Sciences (FFLCH-USP). The focus of this research was the Angolan basin management policy, evaluating the role of Angola in Southern-Central Africa's hydro resources in terms of International Relations. 

This Postdoctoral Research was linked to the FFLCH-USP Sociology Department and supported by São Paulo State's Foundation for Research Support, under Professor Fernando Augusto Albuquerque Mourão's supervision, an influential Brazilian Africanist and expert in International Relations and Multilateralism.

In December 2013, Waldman finished this research and began a third Postdoctoral Research project, again supported by CNPq. The focus of this project was the incineration of municipal solid waste, recycling management policies, and the Waste picker movement, which concluded in December 2015. 

In 2016, Mauricio Waldman founded the Kotev publishing house in São Paulo, intending to launch e-books and e-texts on the Kobo platform. He has contributed articles and papers to magazines like Cultura Verde, Contemporartes, Ambiente Urbano, Teoria & Debate, Brasil-Angola Magazine, and O Imparcial.


Academic Studies Synopsis: 
Environment and Development Postdoc (PNPD/ CAPES, 2013-2014);
International Relations Postdoc (University of São Paulo, USP, 2011-2012); 
Geography Postdoc (Institute of Geosciences - University of Campinas, UNICAMP, 2010-2011); 
Doctor of Human Geography (University of São Paulo, USP, 2006); 
Anthropology M.Sc. (University of São Paulo, USP, 1997); 
Anthropology-Sociology College degree (University of São Paulo, USP, 1975-1981). 


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