Podcast of Critical Theory/ Center for Contemporary Critical Thought. I discuss here with Bernard Harcourt the Counterrevolution in Brazil, drawing on Michel Foucault's idea of Biopower and Achille Mbembe's notion of Necropolitics. Click on the image above to listen to the interview (podcast and Soundcloud)
New entry on Necropolitics (French) in the blog of my project of research on human dignity (posted: 02.12.19)
TEACHING (August-December 2019)
I am teaching a special course on contemporary critical French thinkers for Ph.D/Master Students. You can find here the syllabus (in Portuguese)
For undergraduate law students, I am giving a course on human rights taking into account the proto-fascist agenda of the current Brazilian government. You can find here the syllabus (in Portuguese)
PUBLICATIONS
I am currently working on :
Organization/Edition of Monographs and Special Issue
1) May 68 as a Global Phenomenon. Rio de Janeiro: Lumen Juris (2019)
It is co-organized with Florian Hoffmann (PUC-Rio).
Table of contents available here (in Portuguese)
2) Along with Stephen Riley, I am preparing a special issue on "Human Dignity: Alternative Histories" for the Journal Studies in Law, Politics, and Society
3) Human Dignity in Latin America.
I am working on a book proposal that will be sent to Springer at the beginning of 2020
4) Perspectives of Human Rights: State of Exception, Biopolitics and Subalternity
Rio de Janeiro: PUC Editora, (2019)
It is co-organized with Bethania Assy and Marcia Bernardes (PUC-Rio)
Articles
1) "Nécrolibéralisme et Droits Humains au Brésil" for La Revue des Droits de l'Homme (CREDOF/Paris Nanterre)
2) "Human Dignity in Kant as a Technology of the Self" a draft is available here
- Book Chapter
"Authoritarian Dignity " and "Plu-Rexistences" in Brazil: How Human Survival is a Threat to Bolsonaro Proto-Fascist Politics" for the monograph organized by Lynn Gummow and Klaus Mathis (Luzern University), Dignity and Diversity (Springer, 2020)
Conferences
In October 2019 I organized three important events at PUC-Rio along with Bernard Harcourt (Columbia University) :
- A seminar on Paulo Freire, The Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Oct., 23rd)
- A special course on Foucault, also with Jurandir Freire Costa (Oct., 24th)
- Click on the pictures below to access the recorded videos of the events
- Workshop on Prisons, Education and Judicial System: Brazil & United-States (Oct. 25th) with Elaine Barbosa, Mia Ruyter, Maria Walkiria, Pamella Passos, Sandra de Souza
Nov., 15, 2019, I was invited to talk about Romania post-1989, at Paris Nanterre University (Paris), in day long seminar on 1989. Nov. 28. I have talked about Necropolitics in Brazil, at the State University of Rio de Janeiro
