Researchers

Jéssica Rossone is an Architect and Urbanist (2016) from Federal University of Juiz de Fora (UFJF) who holds a Master’s Degree in Built Environment (2018) from the same University and is a Specialist in Regional Development and Sustainability (2021) from the Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Rio de Janeiro (IFRJ). She was at the Alma Mater Università di Bologna as an exchange student during a year (2013 – 2014) to improve her knowledge on preservation, conservation and restoration of cultural heritage and was a scholarship professor (2017 – 2020) about the subject at Technical School Support Foundation of the State of Rio de Janeiro (FAETEC). She was a civil servant in Vassouras, a municipality of the state of Rio de Janeiro (2020 – 2021), working in the supervision of conservation and restoration works of buildings and in architectural projects, especially of the built railway heritage. Currently, she is a doctoral student at the Institute of Research and Urban and Regional Planning (IPPUR/UFRJ), where integrates the Space and Power Research Group. She is also a professor at the FAETEC network in the area of ​​Infrastructure and Building Conservation and a researcher at the Memory of Brazilian Architecture Institute (IMEARB). Her main topics of research are: Constitution, Consolidation and Preservation of the Brazilian Cultural Heritage; Railway Cultural Heritage; Infrastructure, Development and Territory; Railway Infrastructure, Regional Development.

In the light of the Critique Political Economy, it focuses on Brazilian railways understanding them as autonomous, independent fixed capital, highlighting the contradictions in the relationship between railway infrastructure and capital accumulation, as well as the consequences in the territory; it investigates the implications of transport production on these railways in the 21st century and indicates the role of logistics as a science that organizes not only railway operations in Brazil, but the territories along its infrastructure, within a unsustainable model of socio-political-territorial development.

Palavras-chave: Brazilian Railways, Development, Infrastructure, Territory