Biography
Débora Póvoa is a PhD candidate and lecturer in the Department of Arts and Culture Studies at the Erasmus University Rotterdam.
Her PhD research is part of the ERC-funded project ‘Worlds of Imagination’. Her subproject analyses the phenomenon of film tourism in Brazil. Under the supervision of Prof. Stijn Reijnders, her goal is to understand in which ways media products can induce new tourism flows, and how the relationship between cinema and tourism is reflected on discursive, institutional and experiential levels.
Débora’s current project builds up on her previous work on film and tourism. In her Master’s thesis, she examined and problematised the growth of slum tourism in Rio de Janeiro’s favelas, and how this activity, intertwining with visual discourses propagated worldwide about such localities, is inserted in a more overarching trend of favela consumption. With this thesis, she received a Master’s degree in Media Studies from the University of Amsterdam.
Débora also holds a Bachelor’s degree in Journalism from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro. Her research interests include film tourism, media representation, and the relationships between media, power and place.
Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication
- Povoa@eshcc.eur.nl
- Location
- Burg. Oudlaan 50, Rotterdam
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Work
- Debora Ribeiro Povoa (2023) - Film tourism in Brazil: Local perspectives on media, power and place
- Débora Póvoa (2023) - ‘The festival is ours’: Power dynamics of community participation in the Alter do Chão Film Festival - International Journal of Cultural Studies, 26 (2), 200-215 - doi: 10.1177/13678779231154288 - [link]
- Débora Póvoa, Stijn Reijnders & Emiel Martens (2021) - A Brazilian Hollywood in the making? Film, tourism and creative city discourse in the hinterland of Paraíba - International Journal of Cultural Studies, 24 (5), 691-706 - doi: 10.1177/13678779211011635 - [link]
- Debora Ribeiro Povoa (2020) - Hollywood in the making? Experiencing cinema and tourism in a small town of Brazil - [link]
- Debora Ribeiro Povoa, Stijn Reijnders & Emiel Martens (2019) - The Telenovela Effect: Challenges of Location Filming and Telenovela Tourism in the Brazilian Favelas - Journal of Popular Culture, 52 (6), 1536-1556 - doi: 10.1111/jpcu.12861 - [link]
- Debora Ribeiro Povoa (2019) - Panellist: The Telenovela Effect: Challenges of location filming in the Brazilian favelas
- Debora Ribeiro Povoa (2018) - Panellist: We love the favela: Favela consumption through telenovela tourism in Brazil
- Debora Ribeiro Povoa (2018) - “I love the favela”: Telenovela tourism in the Brazilian favelas
- Debora Ribeiro Povoa (2018) - Panellist: Tropical ghetto, dangerous paradise? Experiencing Brazil in media (and) tourism
- Debora Ribeiro Povoa (2017) - Panellist: The Commodification of Poverty: Favela Tourism and Visual Culture in Rio de Janeiro
Bachelor Graduation Project
- Year Level
- Pre-master, Pre-master, BA-3, Pre-master
- Year
- 2023
- Course Code
- CC3003
Master Thesis
- Level
- MA
- Year Level
- MA
- Year
- 2023
- Course Code
- CC4050