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Dr Bruna Alvarez

Bruna

Associate Professor at the Anthropology Department and co-director of AFIN Research Group, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain

Email: bruna.alvarez@uab.cat

Profile

Bruna Alvarez's research interests include include motherhood, reproduction, sexualities, and childhoods. Since 2017, she has been leading the SexAFIN research project on sexuality and childhood in Catalonia (Spain), Ciudad Juárez (Mexico), and Río de Janeiro and Manaus (Brasil), asking children what they know about sexuality. 

Research

Publications

  • Alvarez, Bruna; Edgar, Vera; Contreras, Edgar i Marre, Diana (2024). Between surveillance and self-surveillance: What institutionalised girls in Ciudad Juárez (reveal that they) know about sexuality. Children & Society, 00, 1-19.  https://doi.org/10.1111/chso.12870

  • Alvarez, Bruna i Malgosa, Estel. (2024). Designing Sexuality Education with Children. In L. Allen and M.L. Rasmussen (eds). The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Sexuality Education (pp. 1-7). Palgrave. 

  • Alvarez, Bruna; Malgosa, Estel; and Marre, Diana (2022). Ethnography on sensitive topics: children’s sexuality education in Spain. En Pandeli, J., Gaggiotti, H. Y Sutherland, N. (Eds.). Organizational Ethnography: An Experiential and Practical Guide (pp. 126-140). London: Routledge.

Expertise

Motherhood, reproduction, children and sexualities.
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