Publications

Book Manuscripts

  • Hernandez, Brianna; Turbino Torres, Luisa; and Zwingel, Susanne (ed.). Feminist Responses to Crises and Dehumanization: Transnational Perspectives. Forthcoming (2025). Routledge, Gender in a Global/ Local World series.
    • This volume articulates transnational feminist visions toward a fairer, more caring, and sustainable future. It brings together the work of feminist scholars and activists who directly engage with communities around the world and are part of border-crossing conversations. Transnational feminist scholar-activism represents a unique epistemological position that combines systemic analysis and context-sensitive agency, paying particular attention to cultural-historical specificities. Further, it is explicit about the political character of knowledge production. The volume introduces transnational feminism as evolving scholarship and activism and then focuses on three salient contemporary dimensions of crisis: (1) political authoritarianism and violence; (2) economic exploitation and ecological devastation; and (3) reproductive and bodily self-determination. Each dimension is addressed by several contributors who have written about it from different geopolitical contexts. They combine in-depth feminist analysis and reflection on strategies for change, such as long-term, multisectoral, and border-crossing mobilization. The conclusion brings together and draws lessons from the scholar-activist perspectives and strategies developed in the volume. 
  • Turbino Torres, Luisa. “The Politics of Being a Soccer Fan: Feminist Activism around Soccer in Brazil”. Proposal in preparation.
    • Drawing from years of digital ethnography, in-person participant observation and interviews, and archival work, this book addresses changes in soccer fandom by looking at the recent emergence of many supporter groups that identify with feminism and their work to create a new way of being a soccer fan. I look at these transformations from a gender perspective and argue that fan organizing and its connection to broader political movements is a key explanation for all of these recent changes in soccer spaces. Thus, I engage with the concept of “fandom activism” around soccer from a feminist perspective. The main argument of this book is twofold. First, it argues that feminist soccer fandom activism has catalyzed change in soccer culture while connecting to broader activist networks. Second, it shows how these soccer fandom groups are the space in which many of these women have contact with feminist praxis for the first time and how they come to understand their feminist identity. Many of the fans who engage with these feminist groups share experiences of hostility while participating in soccer spaces and participate in these groups as a way of re-imagining soccer fandom as a relevant platform in the current political, economic, and social contexts.

Peer Review Articles under review

  • “Understanding the Role of Regional International Organizations in the Implementation of International Norms: The Case of Domestic Violence in Brazil” – Revise and Resubmit at Latin American Policy
    • This paper discusses the implementation of women’s rights regionally recognized as domestic policy in Latin America, using the specific the case of violence against women in Brazil. The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights found the Brazilian state guilty of violating the Belem do Pará Convention and systemically failing to investigate and punish domestic violence. In combination with a domestically favorable scenario—more receptive to women’s rights issues and concerned with the Brazilian regional leadership—a comprehensive law on domestic violence – The Maria da Penha Law – was approved.  I explore the question of how regional norms are implemented domestically, but more specifically, how are global norms and institutions in Latin America shaping national policy processes? Which regional mechanisms create policy change?  In analyzing the case of domestic violence in Brazil, I aim to understand which mechanisms were present in the process of policy change in the country. The main argument of this paper is that regional IOs can play an intermediary role in human rights norms implementation in a way that universal membership IOs cannot, echoing the literature that highlights the effectiveness of the Inter-American Human Rights system despite the weakness of the institutional setting it is inserted.
  • “Collective grief and digital fieldwork during COVID-19: reflections on the emotional aspect of the field“- Revise and Resubmit at PS: Political Science & Politics
    • To do fieldwork during the COVID-19 pandemic meant dealing with an extra layer of unexpected aspects that comes with doing this type of research. For example, losing the connection to participants by not being physically in the field is a concern to interpretivist work. For me – doing work about Brazil, my own home country where most of my family still lives – also meant dealing with the emotional weight of being far away and watching my people struggle. Additionally, I dealt with grief in a way I could not ever have imagined: from having interviews canceled so participants could help with funeral arrangements to losing my grandma and not being able to be there. In this article, I explore the immense discomfort caused by my position in the discrepancies between the Global North and the Global South in terms of resources to contain the pandemic to reflect on the emotional aspects of fieldwork.

Book Chapters

  • Turbino Torres, L. “Shifting the Game: Soccer Feminist Fandom Activism as a Catalyst for Sporting Innovation in Brazil”. In: Boyd, J; Bowman, K (ed.). Soccer, Globalization and Innovation: The Beautiful Game in the 21st Century (Forthcoming 2025). Routledge. Critical Issues in Football Series.
  • Turbino Torres, L. 2015. “International Law and International Relations in China” (Published in Portuguese). In: Ramos, Marcelo Maciel, and Fabrício Bertini Pasquot Polido. 2019. Direito Chinês Contemporâneo. Almedina.

Book Reviews

  • Turbino Torres, L. (2023). High-Risk Feminism in Colombia: Women’s Mobilization in Violent Contexts. By Julia Margaret Zulver. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2022. 194 pp. $29.95 (paper). ISBN: 9781978827097. Politics & Gender, 1-3. doi:10.1017/S1743923X22000666

Manuscripts in Preparation

  • “Rethinking vulnerability in qualitative research: exploring how R1s’ IRBs define vulnerable populations”, Co-Author with Barbara Perez.“Sports, Gender, and Social Movements: A Feminist Perspective on Soccer in Brazil”
  • “Hashtag Activism: #EleNão and #NiUnaAMenos as Latin America feminist mobilization”
  • “’I love Brazilian women’: an autoethnography of the sexualization and racialization of Brazilian women in the U.S. context”

Web-based Publications

Journal Reviewer   

  • Revice – Revista de Ciências do Estado, Belo Horizonte, Brazil (ISSN: 2525-8036)
  • Revista Científica Foz, São Mateus – ES, Brazil (ISSN: 2594-8849)