Introduction/Introdução

Postdoctoral Researcher and Lecturer at the Institute for Latin American Studies, Freie Universität Berlin. Fabio Santos is the author of Bridging Fluid Borders: Entanglements in the French-Brazilian Borderland (Routledge, 2022) and will be a Visiting Scholar in Berkeley during the academic year 2023-24, with a double affiliation at the German Historical Institute and the Institute for European Studies at UC Berkeley. More information on his work can be found here: <https://www.lai.fu-berlin.de/en/homepages/santos/index.html>.

Associate Professor in the Global Studies Department at Aarhus University, Denmark. Derek Pardue’s most recent book is an edited volume, Sonic Signatures: Music, Migration and the City at Night (Intellect/University of Chicago Press, 2023). More information on his academic profile can be found here: <https://pure.au.dk/portal/en/persons/derekpardue(877987c9-d91a-49fb-a0cc-15a7ce023a7c).html>.