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Miriam Adelman

Universidade Federal do Paraná, Ciencias Sociais, Faculty Member

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I have degrees in Sociology from the National University of Mexico (undergraduate) and New York University (M.Phil). I completed my doctoral work at the Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil (Interdisciplinary Program in Human Sciences) in 2004 and have been a sociology professor in Brazil (UFPR-Curitiba) since 1992, where I co-founded the university's interdisciplinary gender studies research group (Núcleo de Estudos de Gênero, 1994). I have post-docs from the University of Barcelona (2009) and EHESS (Paris, 2016). In addition to my commitment to the social sciences, I am also a writer and translator. working with Spanish, Portuguese, French and English (my native language). At present I am semi-retired, which means I no longer do undergrad teaching but continue to teach and research in conjunction with the graduate programs of Sociology and Literature, UFPR. I keep a blog and invite whoever is interested to take a peek, at www.conviteapalavra.blogspot.com Thanks!!! Obrigada!!

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Books by Miriam Adelman

Ways of being (horse)women in Spain and Brazil: RESEARCH REPORT Post Doc 2010 UPDATED version 2025

Unpublished manuscript, report on my post-doctoral research on women in equestrian sport in Spain... more

Biodiversity in the Southern Cone: Colonial Heritage spoken in more -than -Human Words

CALAS Handbook of the Anthropocene in Latin America II. Biodiversity, 2024

Viajantes e migrantes: pessoas e teorias num mundo pós-colonial

Discursos Fora da Ordem: Sexualidades, Saberes, Direitos, 2021

Viajar é a melhor maneira de aprender e se empoderar", dizia minha avó, Yasmina, que era analfabe... more Viajar é a melhor maneira de aprender e se empoderar", dizia minha avó, Yasmina, que era analfabeta e vivia num harém, um lar tradicional com portões trancados que as mulheres não deveriam transpassar. "Você precisa prestar atenção nos forasteiros que você conhece e tentar compreendêlos. Quanto mais você conhecer o forasteiro, melhor você conhecerá si mesma, e mais poder você terá". Para Yasmina, o harém era uma prisão, um lugar do qual se proibia às mulheres saírem. Portanto, ela enaltecia as viagens e considerava a oportunidade de cruzar fronteiras um privilegio sagrado, a melhor forma de se livrar da impotência.

Halters, Reins, and Centaurs: equestrian cultures and human-horse connections in Latin America

Halters, Reins, and Centaurs: equestrian cultures and human-horse connections in Latin America

Riendas, cabestros y centauros: culturas ecuestres y conexiones plurales entre humanos y caballos en América Latina Miriam Adelman (UFPR), Ester Liberato Pereira (Unimontes), Adriana Fernández

by Miriam Adelman, Ester Liberato Pereira, and Adriana Fernandez Brum

Humanimalia (A Filósofa e o Lobo.)

Revista Ensambles , 2022

Escritoras da Geração Beat

Lentes, Pincéis e Paginas: Discursos de Mulheres. Curitiba: Editora UFPR, 2020

Renata Senna Garraffoni [...] o fervor da Geração Beat surgiu da repressão e do consumismo exuber... more

Evoluções, revoluções, persistências, resistências - perspectivas em estudos de gênero para nossos tempos

Cadernos Pagu, 2021

cadernos pagu tem seu conteúdo sob uma Licença Creative Commons

Seu Zé dos Cavalos/Seu Zé and his horses

Revista Fotocronografias , 2021

As onze fotos que aqui apresento fazem parte de um projeto em andamento, de documentação das rela... more As onze fotos que aqui apresento fazem parte de um projeto em
andamento, de documentação das relações entre humanos e cavalos em
áreas urbanas e semi-urbanas em diversas regiões do Brasil. O projeto
revela, entre outras coisas, as ambíguas fronteiras entre o rural e o urbano,
e reitera a necessidade humana de ter membros de outras espécies animais
nas suas vidas.

Palavras-chave: cavalos e humanos, rural e urbano, cavalos na cidade

Abstract: The eleven photos I present here are part of an ongoing project that documents
human-horse relationships in urban and semi-urban areas in different parts of Brazil. It
highlights, among other things, the blurred boundaries between rural and urban, and the
human need to have members of other animal species present in their lives.
Keywords: horses and humans, rural and urban, horses in cities

CFP Culturas equestres brasileiras 1

CFP Culturas equestres brasileiras

Farewell to the Muse: a review of Women in Iberian Filmic Culture.

Saberes, prácticas y relaciones de género en una cultura ecuestre popular del sur de Brasil

Cartografias de la Sexualidad, 2020

This essay is based on ongoing ethnographic research on southern Brazilian equestrian cultures. ... more This essay is based on ongoing ethnographic research on southern Brazilian equestrian cultures. With certain characteristics that enable us to refer to it as 'multi-sited ethnography' - its interconnected research sites include rodeos and organized rides, as well as the spaces of daily work and leisure in the cabanha - most of what we discuss here is the result of participant observation that over a four year period has been carried out in the rural and semi-rural region of Paraná outlying the state's capital city, Curitiba. The issues we highlight here include issues of gender relations as they change and develop within the milieu, as well as our own notions of equestrian culture and 'capital', built in the interface between rural and urban and the movement between popular and professional forms of activity.

The original text was written in Portuguese and translated into Spanish by Nashyelli Salazar Flores.

Mulheres, cavalos, vidas cruzadas: domadxs, domesticadxs, selvagens?

Wenetz, Ileana et al. Gênero e sexualidade no esporte e na educação física (Ciências do esporte, educação física e produção do conhecimento em 40 anos de CBCE - v. 6).pdf pp. 123- 138, 2020

Em discursos e práticas, a díada mulher/cavalo é tão historicamente significativo quanto atravess... more Em discursos e práticas, a díada mulher/cavalo é tão historicamente significativo quanto atravessada por tensões. Perspectivas feministas, queer, pós-humanistas, sociológicas e dos estudos culturais informam minhas reflexões sobre como o par muito ‘materializável’ mulher/cavalo vem sendo representado em discursos vários - nas artes, na literatura, em textos acadêmicos, textos das mídias populares e da publicidade, entre outros – flutuando muitas vezes entre elementos contraditórios (por exemplo, transgressão e hiperssexualizão) ou até sendo mistificada através de narrativas ‘terapêuticas’ popularizadas. Sugiro uma interpretação minha desta relação, que se constrói a partir da crítica de alguns destes discursos e incorporando também o que pesquisas atuais revelam sobre práticas de mulheres em atividades equestres contemporâneas.

Crioulos e crioulistas: Southern Brazilian equestrian culture in a changing world

by Miriam Adelman and Ana Lucia Camphora

HORSE BREEDS AND HUMAN SOCIETY: Purity, identity and the making of the modern horse, 2020

Our contribution to a new Routledge volume on horse breeds as shifting symbolic and material cons... more Our contribution to a new Routledge volume on horse breeds as shifting symbolic and material constructions of modernity and living testimony of the significance of human-animal relations throughout history. We examine the origins, history and contemporary "uses" of the Brazilian Crioulo horse, one of the country's most appreciated and popularly- acquired equine breeds. We highlight a contemporary paradox - how the breed has become ever-more invested with cultural value, while at the same time, thrives largely in connection to its status as a valuable commodity - and also examine the gendered dimensions of this equine's participation in contemporary patterns of rural and urban sport and leisure.

Equestrian Cultures in France and Brazil

Research report/video, 2019

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PA_uA8qZ84A

O Rural Inesperado: Diversidade e Rupturas no Mundo do Rodeio

by Miriam Adelman and Carla Bernava

Educação Fisica, Esporte e Queer: Sexualidades em Mivimento, 2019

As part of a broader comparative discussion of rodeo worlds, practices and cultures in the USA an... more

From Hípica to Cabanha: Brazilian stable hands in different cultures and contexts..pdf

Equestrian Cultures in Global and Local Contexts, 2017

Abstract: In a country characterized by extreme social inequality, historically-recent process... more Abstract: In a country characterized by extreme social inequality, historically-recent processes of industrialization and urbanization as well as rich popular equestrian traditions and culture, there is also an ample and modern equine economy which is just beginning to attract scholarly attention. Our chapter considers some of the emerging contrasts and contradictions of that economy and its socio-cultural field, focusing on a group of workers whose often taken-for-granted labor makes its existence possible: stable hands. By examining stable hands in two different contexts - the formally organized, highly structured and largely feminized hípica, where classical equitation is enjoyed by elites, and the cabanha, a less formal environment that caters to and promotes 'traditionalist' equestrian practice, with a wider class base yet less female participation - we shed light on cultural diversity and conflict, engaging with broad critical discussions on class, race and gender relations in the equestrian world, rural/urban reconfigurations and how work, leisure and sport are constructed in one contemporary Latin American society.

As 'prendas' também vestem bombacha! Mulheres, homens e novas configurações de gênero no mundo do rodeio paranaense