Deborah Fromm is an urban ethnographer and a Urban Studies Foundation International Fellow at the Department of Geography and Environment of the London School of Economics and Political Science. She holds a PhD and a Master’s degree from the University of Campinas, with visiting periods at Goldsmiths College, University of London and the Centre for Research and Higher Studies in Social Anthropology (CIESAS, Mexico City). She is a researcher at the Nucleus for Urban Ethnography of the Brazilian Center for Analysis and Planning (CEBRAP) and has conducted multisite field research in Brazil and Ghana. She also collaborates with the project ‘Global Cars: a transnational urban research on the informal vehicle economy (Europe, Africa and South America)’ - funded by FAPESP and ANR.
During her stay at ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳, she will develop the project ‘The business of urban security: Insurance and illegal protection in violent cities’ with the supervision of Prof. Gareth Jones. She will publish her PhD research findings on the role of the insurance sector in the govern