Rodrigo Viqueira

I am a scholar specializing in Latin American Studies, with a focus on the literary and cultural production of the Southern Cone and Brazil. My research spans the intersections of literature, film and media studies, popular culture, and sound studies. My dissertation delves into sonic representations of labor in South America. I approach labor as a complex and multilayered category, central to State-sponsored governmentality policies that aimed to forge the citizen as a dominantly male, white, and industrial worker, but also as a category that allowed oppressed groups —workers, women, racialized minorities—to exert resistance and agency. Additionally, I have studied the work of Afro-Uruguayan intellectuals and performers, focusing on the formation of a diasporic Afro-Uruguayan identity during the first half of the twentieth century. Recently, I have begun to explore a sound studies angle to enrich my work on Afro-Latin American culture, leading me to one of the projects I am working on: a book-length project on racialized soundscapes in the making of twentieth-century Black cultures in Argentina and Uruguay.