Biography

Bruno Zorek (Curitiba, Brazil, 1981) holds a PhD in History from the University of Campinas (Unicamp, Brazil), with a thesis on the disputes over the future of the city of São Paulo led by intellectuals, urban planners, politicians and cultural articulators in the middle of the 20th century. He is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the IHC, part of the research group in Economy and Society and collaborator of the thematic line Connected Histories. He is researching the explanatory models of the Brazilian colonial economy from a historiographical perspective, thinking about the conditions of production of these models in relation to contemporary economic policies and economic thought.

Research fields

  • History of intellectuals
  • History oh historiography
  • History of economic thought
  • History of cities

Selected publications

  • Zorek, Bruno, “Duas utopias e uma distopia. O futuro de São Paulo e seus urbanistas na década de 1950,” in Figurações em crise: Utopias e distopias como tessituras do nosso mundo, organised by Marcio Silva and Rodrigo Paziani. Cascavel: Edunioeste, 2020. [link]
  • Zorek, Bruno de Macedo. “Esgarçamento do futuro: transformações nas representações do destino de São Paulo na década de 1950,” Plural 25 (2018): 226-247. [link]🔓
  • Zorek, Bruno. “”É preciso lutar contra tudo que é apenas maior em vez de ser melhor”: Anhaia Mello e um futuro alternativo para São Paulo,” Revista Urutágua 36 (2017): 176-197. [link]🔓
  • Zorek, Bruno de Macedo. “Um futuro alternativo para São Paulo: Anhaia Mello e a tese da limitação do crescimento da metrópole,” Cadernos de História 18 (2017): 245-269. [link]🔓

Main projects

  • Postdoctoral project “Uma história social dos modelos explicativos para a economia da América portuguesa colonial: historiografia, pensamento económico e políticas económicas estatais” [A social history of explanatory models for the economy of colonial Portuguese America] — Hosted by the IHC and funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology (UIDB/04209/2020). 2021-2024

 

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