Mr Luan Carpes Barros Cassal

Profile

Luan is a Lecturer in Psychology at University College Birminhgam and a Honorary Research Fellow in Education at University of Manchester, both in the UK. He is also a Chartered Psychologist with the British Psychological Society and a co-convenor for the Sexualities & Gender Special Interest Group of the British Educational Research Association. He works in collaboration with Childhood Studies scholars in Brazil, Finland, and the UK. His PhD research (in education) focused on ideas of childhood in legal gender recognition in the UK, using a Foucauldian Discourse Analysis and Child as method.

Research

Publications

Cassal, L. C. B. (2025). What Cam is not (only): Child as method, Foucauldian-inspired Discourse Analysis and unconscious figurations of childhood. Annual Review of Critical Psychology, 20. Open Access.

Cassal, L. C. B. & Burman, E. (2025). Those afraid of gender and childhood:Anti-gender attacks against Judith Butler in Brazi. In: Llobet, V., Reynaert, D., Imoh, A.T.-D., & Vandenhole, W. (Eds.). (2025). Critical Children’s Rights Studies: A Research Companion (pp. 137-150). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003510284

Cassal, L. C. B., Christinaki, A., Burman, E. (2024). Who Counts as a Child? Using Child as Method and Fanon to Challenge Figurations of Childhood. Cultural Studies<=>Critical Methodologies 25(1), 35-43.

Mattos, A. R., & Cassal, L. C. B. (2024). "I met my best friends yesterday": Groups as a democratic practice in Brazilian schools. Research in Education. https://doi.org/10.1177/00345237241305335

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