Juliana Streva

Why did you choose Lund University?

Lund University’s pioneering engagement with socio-legal studies, and its understanding of law as a social practice shaped by power and struggle, strongly resonates with my scholarly orientation. 

Its commitment to transdisciplinary, critical, and collaborative research makes Lund a generative environment, and I look forward to joining it in 2026 as Professor of Sociology of Law.

How do you describe your current research?

My research examines how law is entangled with colonial domination and its afterlives, focusing on the legacies of slavery in Brazil and the Caribbean. 

I study contemporary enactments of quilombo as Black feminist anticolonial practices that work within, against, and beyond liberal legal frameworks, combining socio-legal analysis with oral history and experimental filmmaking. 

What will be your main research focus during your time at Lund University?

At Lund, my project Notes on Reparation: Law and World-Making Otherwise explores how law, ecology, and social movements intersect amid racialised dispossession and ecological collapse. 

It asks how to respond to irreparable loss, tracing reparative practices rooted in land relations, non-hegemonic knowledge, and collective survival beyond liberal notions of compensation.