Podcast of Critical Theory/ Center for Contemporary Critical Thought. Idiscuss here with Bernard Harcourt theCounterrevolution in Brazil, drawing onMichel 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 have been 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 have been 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
In December 2019, I have published and co-organized the following two monographs, along with colleagues of the Law School at PUC-Rio University.
- The first one, on May 68 as a Global Phenomenon
- Maio de 68 como Fenonemo Global. (w/ F. Hoffmann). Rio de Janeiro: Lumen Juris (2019).
Table of contents available here (in Portuguese). Isbn: 978-85-519-1729-9
- The second one, on Human Rights from a Critical Theory Approach
Direitos Humanos em Perspectiva: Estado de Excecao, Biopolitca e Subalternidade (w/ B. Assy & M. Bernardes). Rio de Janeiro: PUC-Rio Editora (2019). Isbn: 978-8006-288-5
I am working on my core topic, human dignity, with the following two projects :
I am working on a book proposalthat will be sent to Springer at the beginning of 2020
I am working on the following papers
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
3) "Couterrevolution and Necropolitics in Brazil: Genocide, Racism and Necro-Law", to be submitted to Theory, Culture & Society
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 talkabout 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
