Jeff Garmany

Jeff Garmany is Associate Professor in Latin American Studies and a Senior Lecturer in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne, Faculty of Arts. He holds the position of Anthropology and Development Studies Discipline Chair and serves as Program Director for the Master of Development Studies. Prior to his appointment at the University of Melbourne, Garmany held academic positions at the University of Arizona. In 2010, he was awarded the Andrew W. Mellon/ACLS Fellowship. Garmany is actively involved in the Critical Ethnography Lab within his school, where his contributions support ethnographic approaches to studying inequality.

Garmany's research specializations center on Latin American urban development, governance, and social inequality, with a primary focus on Brazil. His academic interests include vulnerability and citizenship in urban settings, neoliberal governance and conditional cash transfers, militarized policing and crime politics, necro- and narco-geographies of violence and fear, gentrification, hygienisation, and urban displacement, as well as moral economies of occupation and social housing. Key publications include the co-authored book Understanding Contemporary Brazil (Routledge, 2019; second edition, 2025) with Anthony W. Pereira, offering insights into Brazil's contemporary society, politics, economy, and challenges. Other significant works are Hygienisation, Gentrification, and Urban Displacement in Brazil (Antipode, 2020, co-authored with Matthew Aaron Richmond), The embodied state: governmentality in a Brazilian favela (Social & Cultural Geography, 2009), Drugs, violence, fear, and death: The necro- and narco-geographies of contemporary urban space (Social & Cultural Geography, 2011), Situating Fortaleza: Urban space and uneven development in northeastern Brazil (Cities, 2011), and The Right to Occupy: Moral Economies of Occupation and Social Housing in Urban Brazil (Latin American Research Review, 2021, co-authored with John Burdick and Mel Gurr). Garmany's scholarship appears in leading journals and contributes to understandings of urban politics, security, and development in Latin America.

Professional Email: jeff.garmany@unimelb.edu.au