Luiz Ribeiro Fonseca

Master in Communication (PPGCOM-UF, Brazil) and Global South Studies (ICGSS-UT, Germany)

  • Doctoral researcher within the Institute for Creative Futures
  • Research Associate in REACT Reimagining Activism, Communication and Trajectories of Participation in the Global South (2026-2031)
  • Producer and host at Podcast Talking with Those Who Listen
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Luiz Ribeiro Fonseca

Profile

Luiz Ribeiro Fonseca is a Brazilian sound artist, journalist, and researcher. Currently, as a doctoral candidate at the Institute for Creative Futures - Loughborough University London and a Techne DTP scholarship holder, he is investigating sound practices in Brazilian ecological activism.

He holds a master's degree in Communication from Universidade Federal Fluminense (PPGCOM-UFF), in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and in Global South Studies from the University of Tübingen (ICGSS-UT), Germany, where he researched the reconfiguration of maracatu (an Afro-Brazilian expression) as a music genre in the early 20th century. 

PhD research

Fonseca, L.C.R.S. (2025) “For a poetics of sound archives: the itinerary of maracatu ‘Eh Uá Calunga’, by Capiba”, GIS - Gesture, Image and Sound - Anthropology Journal, 10(1), p. e211699. doi:10.11606/issn.2525-3123.gis.2025.211699.