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Dr. Guilherme Pozzer

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E-mail:
Guilherme.pozzer@ruhr-uni-bochum.de

Funktion:
Postdoc Research Marie Curie Fellwo

Forschungsschwerpunkte (Auswahl):

  • Urban History
  • Memory
  • Cultural Heritage
  • Industrial Archaeology
  • Deindustrialisation
  • Community Engagement
  • Public Policy
  • Digital Cultural Heritage

Beruflicher Werdegang:
Dr Guilherme Pozzer is a historian specialising in Industrial Heritage, with an international academic background spanning Brazil, Portugal, Spain, Germany, and the UK. His research explores the symbolic meanings, social impacts, and role of material culture in memory and heritage-making processes at abandoned, ruined, and re-used industrial sites. He is currently the Principal Investigator of the European Research Executive Agency-funded Post-Doctoral MSCA Fellowship at RUB, "Memories and Well-being in Post-Industrial Communities" which explores connections between industrial heritage, memory-making practices, and well-being in deindustrialisation contexts. Concurrently. He serves as Co-Investigator on the Fapesp (Brazil) -funded "Cultural Heritage, Community Participation, Public Policies" project, fostering technical-scientific collaboration between Brazil and Germany. He is an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Sheffield, and led the project "Crafting the Past: ": Empowering Communities through Creative Writing, Visual Narratives, Memory, and Place-Making" addressing challenges in preserving post-industrial heritage and memories. He also contributes to the "Railway Memory Project" and he is an affiliate to the DePOT project in which he is a member of the curatorial committee for the "Histories of Deindustrialization Through Objects"". This extensive engagement in leading and collaborative research underscores his commitment to advancing critical discourse and practical applications in heritage studies on a global scale.

Education:

  • PhD in History (European Doctorate Label, specialised in Heritage) - University of Minho, Portugal (2014-2022).
    • Thesis: “The persistent memory: Sampaio, Ferreira and Co. factory in Riba d'Ave (Portugal): memory, history and industrial heritage”
  • MPhil in History - State University of Campinas (Unicamp), Brazil (2004-2007).
    • Dissertation: “The ancient Companhia Paulista’s railway station in Campinas (São Paulo-Brazil): a symbolic structure transforming the city (1872-2002)”
  • BA + Licenciatura and Teaching Degree in History - State University of Campinas (Unicamp), Brazil (1999-2003).

Forschungsprojekt:

Title: Memories, and Wellbeing in Post-Industrial Communities (MemoWb)
Primary Investigator: Dr. Guilherme Pinheiro Pozzer
Host Institution: Institute for Social Movements (ISB), Ruhr University Bochum (RUB), Germany
Supervisor: Professor Stefan Berger
Funding: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship
Duration: 24 months (2024-2026)
Project Summary: MemoWb investigates how different uses and levels of community engagement with industrial heritage contribute to memory-making practices that impact communities' well-being in contexts of deindustrialisation. Through Community-Based Action Research (CBAR), qualitative analysis, and comparison of case studies in Portugal, Spain, and the UK, MemoWb brings post-industrial communities' perspectives to the centre of international debates about well-being, heritage, and conservation.

The research addresses critical research gaps regarding:

  • The relationship between heritage engagement and well-being in post-industrial communities
  • How memory-making practices relate to dominant heritage narratives
  • The role of power dynamics in heritage management processes
  • Diversity and inclusion in industrial heritage engagement

MemoWb employs innovative methodological approaches including:

  • Semi-structured interviews with community members
  • Workshops using the Emotion Networking method
  • Social Semiotic Method for discourse analysis
  • Small-N cross-national comparative analysis

The research directly contributes to the international project "Deindustrialisation and the Politics of Our Time" (DéPOT) and aims to produce actionable insights for more inclusive heritage practices that enhance community well-being while respecting diverse memories and experiences of industrial pasts.

Weitere Informationen: 
http://lattes.cnpq.br/9491692780709207

Publikationen

  • Pozzer, G. P. (2022). Palavras em Ruínas (EN: Words in Ruins). Lisboa: Astrolábio Edições.
  • Pozzer, G. (Preprint). Rota para lugar nenhum: avaliação do fracasso da Rota do Patrimônio Industrial da Bacia do Ave. Arqueologia Industrial. (Forthcoming 2025).
  • Pozzer, G. (2024). Route to nowhere: assessing the failure of the Ave Basin Industrial Heritage Route (Portugal). International Journal of Heritage Studies, 30(4).
  • Pozzer, G. (2024). Crafting Resilience: unveiling the legacy of industrial patternmakers in post-industrial Australia. [Review of the book Industrial Craft in Australia: Oral Histories of Creativity and Survival by Jesse Adams Stein]. Arqueologia Industrial, V Série, Volume VI(1), 158-162.
  • Pozzer, G. (2020). The Sampaio, Ferreira Textile Mill in the industrialisation process of river Ave watershed (1896 1917). Arqueologia Industrial, Quinta Série, Volume II(1-2), 04-47.
  • Pozzer, G. (2015). Modernity arrives by train: the opening of the railroad in Campinas, São Paulo, in 1872. Intellèctus, 14(1), 142-167.
  • Pozzer, G. (2023). A memória urbanizada. In S. Palomares Alarcón et al. (eds.), Património Industrial Ibero-Americano: abordagens diversificadas. Publicações do Cidehus.
  • Pozzer, G. (2017). The dignity of industrial ruin: case study of the factory Sampaio, Ferreira & Cia. In M. Á. Areces (Org.), Pensar y Actuar sobre el Patrimonio Industrial en el território (Colección Los ojos de la memoria, nº 16) (pp. 323-332). Gijón: CICEES Editorial.
  • Pozzer, G. (2016). The documentation of the factory Sampaio Ferreira & Cia in the Administration of the Northern Hydrographic Region (ARH-NORTE). In M. Á. Areces (Org.), El legado de la industria: archivos, bibliotecas, fototecas de empresa. Fábricas y memoria (Colección Los ojos de la Memoria, nº 17) (pp. 359-365). Gijón: Gráficas Apel.
  • Pozzer, G. (2004). At the doors of the city: study on the relationship between the Companhia Paulista de Estradas de Ferro railway station and the city of Campinas (1872-1940). In C. Meneguello & S. Rubino (Org.), Patrimônio Industrial: perspectivas e abordagens (Vol. 1, pp. 116-142). Campinas: Unicamp /Comitê Brasileiro de Preservação do Patrimônio Industrial.