Daniel Rincón Machón

Hello! I am a PhD candidate at Cambridge University's Centre of Development Studies. My project explores public communication and social order in territories controlled by criminal groups. Drawing from qualitative fieldwork in Northeastern Brazil, and from different methods of digital research, I am trying to understand why criminal groups engage in public communication, in which ways digital platforms mediate those interactions, and how this relates to their governance practices. My research is supported by La Caixa Foundation and the Cambridge Trust. I have a Law and Political Sciences background, and I studied a Master's in Development Studies at The Graduate Institute. Before starting my PhD, I consulted for several humanitarian NGOs and worked as a research assistant at The Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy, where I contributed to other academic projects on local governance in post-war Uganda, and the regulation of research ethics in the social sciences.