Publications

Published Book

• Jungs de Almeida, A. (ed.). Feminist Security Studies from Latin America and the Caribbean. Editor: Federal University of Santa Catarina, 2025. In Spanish.

Peer-reviewed articles

• Jungs de Almeida, Alessandra. Gender and Feminisms in International Relations Teaching in Brazil. Dossier “Gender and International Relations: Latin American Women’s Perspectives on Feminisms, Institutions, and Sexualities” in the Revista Brasileira de Políticas Públicas e Internacionais, 2024. Portuguese.
• Jungs de Almeida, Alessandra and Decol, Jocieli. Facing Gender Absence: Questioning the International Relations Curriculum from a Peripheral Feminist Perspective and Practice. Feminist Pedagogy: Vol. 4: Iss. 1, Article 7, 2023.
• Jungs de Almeida, A.; Vedovato, A.L. International Relations beyond the University: Popular Education as a method for communicating the field. Caminho Aberto: Revista de Extensão do IFSC, Ano 10, v. 17, 2023. Portuguese.
• Jungs de Almeida, A.; Minchola, L. The “spirit of Cartagena” and the Brazilian refugee policy. Revista Perspectiva, v.8, p. 123-142, 2015. Portuguese.

Book chapter

• Jungs de Almeida, Alessandra; Klein, Lauren F; D’Ignazio, Catherine. Missing Data in Keywords of the Datafied State, eds. Ranjit Singh, Jenna Burrell, and Patrick Davison (Data & Society, 2024).
• Jungs de Almeida, Alessandra; Viggiano, Juliana. Reforming security institutions: implications of local actors’ incorporation on the construction of democratic security environments. In: Gilder, A., Curran, D., Holmes, G., Edu-Afful, F. (eds) Multidisciplinary Futures of UN Peace Operations. Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-38596-4_2
• Redin, G.; Minchola, L.; Jungs de Almeida, A. The role of academia in protecting and promoting the human rights of migrants and refugees in Brazil: the outreach practice of Migraidh UFSM. In Redin, G. Migrações Internacionais. Santa Maria: UFSM, 2020. ISBN: 978-65-5716-010-7. Portuguese.
• Jungs de Almeida, A. Linguistic accessibility: listening, dialogue and promotion of human rights through university. In Redin, G. Migrações Internacionais. Santa Maria: UFSM, 2020. Media: Digital. ISBN: 978-65-5716-010-7. Portuguese.
• Jungs de Almeida, A. South African Legislation. In Redin, G.; Minchola, L. Imigrantes no Brasil -Proteção dos Direitos Humanos e Perspectivas Político-Jurídicas. 1 ed. Curitiba: Juruá Editora, 2015, v.1, p. 221-228. ISBN: 9788536254098. Portuguese.
• Jungs de Almeida, A. Introductory Notes; Concluding Notes (Comparative Law for the Construction of a New Legal Framework on Migration) In Redin, G.; Minchola, L. Imigrantes no Brasil – Proteção dos Direitos Humanos e Perspectivas Político-Jurídicas. Curitiba: Juruá Editora, 2015, v.1, p. 237-246. ISBN: 9788536254098. Portuguese.

Reports

• Cruxên, I.; Jungs de Almeida, A.; D’Ignazio, Catherine. Data activism against feminicide: Co-designing digital tools to prevent feminicide across the Americas, Research Insights #2, School of Business and Management, Queen Mary University of London. Available at https://www.qmul.ac.uk/busman/research/research-insights/data-activism-against-feminicide/.
• Cruxên, I.; Jungs de Almeida, A.; Klein, L. F.; D’Ignazio, Catherine. 2024. Dados Ausentes e Contradados. In Mariano, Silvana. Informe Feminicídios Brasil 2023: Monitor de Feminicídios no Brasil. Londrina: Editora dos Autores. ISBN: 978-65-00-95543-9.

Submitted

• Jungs de Almeida, Alessandra; Cruxên, Isadora; Radhakrishnan, Radhika; D’Ignazio, Catherine. Challenging (in)security: Missing Data and Counterdata Production on Feminicides in the Americas. In Anctil, Priscyll. “Feminist Security Studies in the Americas: Pushing the Fronteras”. Book chapter, to be published in 2024 by Palgrave Macmillan in the “Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies” series.
• Cruxên, I.; Jungs de Almeida, A.; García-Montes, M.; D’Ignazio, C.; Suresh, H. Enacting data epistemologies centered on social justice, context, pluralism and care: Data Against Feminicide in Brazil. In Walford, T. et al. (ed). Book Data Justice in Context.
• Ferretto, Martina, Alessandra Jungs de Almeida, and Rebeca Austria. Aborting Regret: Latin American Feminist Strategies for Reproductive Rights to Face Conservative Backlash. Currently under peer review.

To be submitted

• Jungs de Almeida, A. Transnational Data Activism and Reproductive Rights in Latin America. To be submitted.
• Gao, Y.; Jungs de Almeida, A.; Suárez Val, H.; Cruxên, I.; D’Ignazio, C.; Suresh, H. Reimagining Data Annotation for ML Systems: A Feminist Framework and Case Study.
• Jungs de Almeida, A., C. D’Ignazio, C., I. Cruxên, M. Kalil, R. Marques, S. Mariano, T. Negrão. Lethal gender violence in Brazil: Data activism and feminist political advocacy against feminicide. To be submitted – Feminisms journal. *authors are in alphabetical order.
• Cruxên, I.; Jungs de Almeida, A.; Data Against Feminicide. Data Activism Against Feminicide. 2025. (Extensive project report to be published in Portuguese, English and Spanish). Queen Mary University of London, 2025.

Theses

• Jungs de Almeida, Alessandra. Reproductive rights in Latin America: transnational activism and the evolution of abortion legalization and criminalization policies in Argentina and Brazil (2010-2022). Dissertation (PhD in International Relations). Graduate Program in International Relations, UFSC. Florianópolis, p. 278, 2024. Advisor: Mónica Salomón. Committee: Catherine D’Ignazio (MIT), Cecilia Sardenberg (UFBA), Débora Lopreite (UBA), Iara Leite (UFSC).
• Jungs de Almeida, Alessandra. The process of Local Ownership in Security Sector Reform: the case of Liberia (2003-2018). Thesis (Masters in International Relations). Graduate Program in International Relations, UFSC. Florianópolis, p. 142, 2020. Advisor: Prof. Dr. Juliana Viggiano.
• Jungs de Almeida, Alessandra. Social Mobilization, Political Stability and Legitimacy: the Poro and Sande Societies in State Formation in Liberia’s Peace and Wars. Bachelor Thesis (Bachelor of International Relations). International Relations Course, UFSM. Santa Maria, p. 86, 2017. Advisor: Prof. Dr. Igor Castellano da Silva.

Selected Conference Presentations

• Jungs de Almeida, A. Transnational Data Activism and Reproductive Rights: Feminist and Anti-Feminist Strategies in Brazil and Argentina (2010-2022). 2025. International Studies Association Conference, Chicago.
• Jungs de Almeida, A. Foreign Policy on Sexual and Reproductive Rights: The cases of Argentina and Brazil (2010-2022). International Political Science Association, Buenos Aires, 2023.
• Jungs de Almeida, Alessandra. Transnational Gender Activism and Sexual and Reproductive Rights: Agents, Strategies, and Campaigns in the Abortion Legalization Agenda in Latin America. To be presented in the GCWS Graduate Student Conference, March 2023, MIT & ISA 2023.
• Jungs de Almeida, A. Questioning Gender in International Relations: Curriculum Analysis of Undergraduate Courses in Southern Brazil. 2022. 6th Seminar of the Brazilian Association of International Relations; USP, São Paulo/Online, Brazil.
• Jungs de Almeida, A. The transnational women coalition from the Global South: the feminist strike (8M) in Argentina and Brazil (2017-2020). 2022. International Studies Association, Nashville.
• Jungs de Almeida, A.; Vedovato, A. Women’s Activism in Liberia: war mediation and the peacebuilding process. 2021. International Seminar Doing Gender 12, Brazil. ISSN: 2179-510X.
• Jungs de Almeida, A. International Strike of Women in South America: Dialogues and Transnational experiences between feminist movements. 2020. Thinking Gender in International Relations: 1st MaRIas Seminar, University of São Paulo, Brazil.
• Viggiano, J.; Jungs de Almeida, A. Similarities and differences in the Security Sector Reform (SSR). 2019. III Regional Meeting of ABED; Santa Maria, Brazil.
• Jungs de Almeida, A.; Vedovato, A. Teaching International Relations beyond universities: the communication of the discipline through Popular Education. 2019. 7th Meeting of the Brazilian Association of International Relations; PUC-Minas. ISBN: 978-85-66399-10-3.
• Jungs de Almeida, A . Challenges and opportunities for the process of local ownership in the context of security sector reform in peace operations. 2019. 7th Meeting of the Brazilian Association of International Relations; PUC-Minas, Brazil. ISBN: 978-85-66399-10-3.
• Jungs de Almeida, A.; Bertoldo, J.; Chelotti, J. Clandestinas, Invisibles and Exploited: Migrant Women and the Brazilian State, 2018. III Latin American Conference on Refuge, Migration and Statelessness, Curitiba, Brazil.
• Jungs de Almeida, A; Minchola, L.. Decoloniality in Brazil: A debate in progress, 2016. III Congress on Feminist and Postcolonial Studies, CLACSO, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Magazine and Newspapers Articles and Blog Posts

• Jungs de Almeida, Alessandra, and Priscyll Anctil Avoine. 2025. Thinking and Resisting from Abya Yala: Collective Contributions to Feminist Security Studies. Revista Lüvo 12 (1): 84–86.
• Jungs de Almeida, A. If MIT researchers produce cutting-edge science, who sustains the researchers?May 29, 2025, volume 145, issue 9, MIT The Tech Newspaper. English.
• Jungs de Almeida, A. Politics disguised as neutrality: FAPESC and its retaliation against innovation and social progress. Le Monde Diplomatique, Nov 2024. Portuguese.
• Jungs de Almeida, A.; Austria, R.; Ferretto, Martina. September 28th in Latin America and the Caribbean: The date that unites us in the struggle for abortion rights. In Portuguese at Catarinas, in English at Feminist Perspectives – King’s College, and in Spanish at La Costilla Rota. 2024.
• Jungs de Almeida, A., et al. Technology and Data Activists Against Feminicide. Portal Catarinas, August, 2023. Portuguese.
• Jungs de Almeida, A. 8M: Abortion legalization is about women’s lives! Medium, Data + Feminism Lab, MIT, 2023. English & Portuguese.
• Jungs de Almeida, A. “Counting feminicide”: A feminist glossary for data activists. Medium, Data + Feminism Lab, MIT, 2022. Portuguese.
• Jungs de Almeida, A. A brief conceptual discussion on the limitations and alternatives of security sector reforms. Mundorama, Jul 2022. English.
• Jungs de Almeida, A. Papicha: Resistance, Creation and Redirection of libido. Le Monde Diplomatique, Jun 2020. Portuguese.

Interviews

• Jungs de Almeida, Alessandra (interviewed by Vera Morgado). Dados sobre Feminicídio. [Data about Feminicide]. September 19, 2025. Mulheres de Palavra – Rádio Câmara de Deputados, Brasil.
• Jungs de Almeida, Alessandra (interviewed by Ana Paula Lückman). Tese da UFSC sobre direitos reprodutivos na América Latina vence prêmio nacional [Translated version: Dissertation on Reproductive Rights in Latin America Wins National Award]. July 2025. Notícias UFSC. Newspaper article.
• Jungs de Almeida, Alessandra (interviewed by Fabrício Marques). Violência e ódio contra as mulheres [Violence and Hate Against Women]. July 2025. Fapesp Podcast. Podcast.
• Jungs de Almeida, Alessandra (interviewed by Mônica Manir). Lei do Feminicídio completa 10 anos [Feminicide Law completes 10 years]. July 2025. Revista FAPESP. Newspaper article.
• Jungs de Almeida, Alessandra (interviewed by Paula Ricaurte). 2025. “‘El enfoque de seguridad estatal ha traído graves consecuencias para las mujeres’ [The State Security Approach Has Had Serious Consequences for Women].” Revista Cambio Colombia. Newspaper article.
• Jungs de Almeida, Alessandra (interviewed by Rosimar Francelino). 2024. “Estudos de segurança pública, ativismo e monitoramento de dados sobre violência contra mulheres e meninas [Public Security Studies, Activism and Data Monitoring on Violence Against Girls and Women].” Podcast Vozes contra o Silêncio, June 28. Podcast.
• Jungs de Almeida, Alessandra. 2024. “Libéria: Independência ou Ilusão?” [Liberia: Independence or Illusion?]. Spotify Podcast Mundioka. Podcast.
• Jungs de Almeida, Alessandra. 2018. “Afroriente – Libéria: Sociedade e Cultura” [Afroriente – Liberia: Society and Culture]. Mixcloud Radio Program. Podcast.
• Redin, Giuliana, Alessandra Jungs de Almeida, and Luís Augusto B. Minchola. 2016. “MIGRAIDH – Tubo de Ensaio.” Tubo de Ensaio UFSM.