Margaux de Barros is a PhD candidate in Political Science at the Faculty of Philosophy and Social Sciences of the Université libre de Bruxelles, under joint supervision with the Instituto de Estudos Sociais e Políticos (IESP) of the Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ).

Graduated in Political Science applied to Latin America from Sciences Po Grenoble, Margaux has been an FNRS PhD Research Fellow at CEVIPOL since September 2016. After a research stay at the SERPAJ foundation in Chile, she joined the Centro de Pesquisa e Documentação de História Contemporânea do Brasil at the Getulio Vargas Foundation in Rio de Janeiro and decided to further specialize in collective action in urban contexts.

She completed her Master’s degree with a thesis on the mobilization of residents of Vila Autódromo, a favela threatened with eviction in the context of the Olympic Games. In September 2016, she began a PhD in comparative political sociology focusing on social movements opposing urban restructuring projects in Rio de Janeiro and Cape Town.

Her research aims to shed light on the drivers of engagement and disengagement in activism, and their influence on the success or failure of territorially grounded social mobilizations.