... Manuela Ivone Cunha compares two experiences in which her ethnography, although not policy-driven, became relevant for policies. After her research on a Portuguese correctional facility she had a hearing before the national commission in charge of the prison reform, to which she was able...

... Born in northern Argentina, Juana Manuela Gorriti (1818–92) accompanied her family into political exile in Bolivia, where at age fifteen she married Manuel Isidoro Belzu, then an army captain, with whom she went on to bear three children. Belzu left her nine years later, amid mutual accusations...

... causes, and that demands for social justice were not limited to the single issue of policing. In the end she realized that her discourse was instrumentalized to validate the commission’s ready-made arguments. expert testimony witness police South Africa Khayelitsha Manuela Ivone Cunha...

... Manuela Gorriti (1818–92) accompanied her family into political exile in Bolivia, where at age fifteen she married Manuel Isidoro Belzu, then an army captain, with whom she went on to bear three children. Belzu left her nine years later, amid mutual accusations of infidelity. He became Bolivia’s head...