A South-South Dialogue: A Sociological Reflection on Relations between New Zealand and Brazil

Tom Dwyer teaches Sociology at the University of Campinas (UNICAMP), São Paulo, Brazil where he has been on staff since 1984. He completed a doctorate at the L’École de Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (Paris), and was a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Canterbury (NZ) and Cornell University (USA). He has been a visiting scholar in universities in Europe, the Americas and Oceania. He was president of the Brazilian Sociological Society for two mandates (2005–2009) and has published a total of 7 authored and edited books (mainly in Portuguese), including Life and Death at Work – Industrial Accidents as a Form of Socially Produced Error (Plenum, New York and London). His most recent empirical research has been into IT use by adolescents. In the 1980s he published various non-academic articles about New Zealand-Brazil relations, and has been a keen observer of the development of this relationship over the last quarter of a century.