All Outputs (18)

Critique of ontological militarism (2023)
Journal Article

War metaphors permeate the world we live in. From wildlife documentaries (natural war) to the curbing of academic freedom (war on woke), it seems that anything can be described in an essential likeness to warfare. Drawing on Lacanian psychoanalysis,... Read More about Critique of ontological militarism.

The monstruous and the miscount: A radical theory of accountability (2023)
Journal Article

Can public inquiries and truth commissions provide a space for political transformation? This article investigates the field of transitional justice to address this question, focusing on pessimistic accounts of the persistent failure of truth-telling... Read More about The monstruous and the miscount: A radical theory of accountability.

From the ‘victim societies’ to the ‘societies of victimisation’: The memory of military atrocities in South America (2023)
Book Chapter

Providing a novel multi-disciplinary theorization of memory politics, this insightful Handbook brings varied literatures into a focused dialogue on the ways in which the past is remembered and how these influence transnational, interstate, and global... Read More about From the ‘victim societies’ to the ‘societies of victimisation’: The memory of military atrocities in South America.

(Re)creative violence (2022)
Journal Article

This contribution builds on my current research in exploring alternative ways of understanding the phenomenon of violence, traditionally conceived of as either a destructive force or a system of injustice. By exploring my personal position navigating... Read More about (Re)creative violence.

Populism or the European condition? (2022)
Journal Article

Ten years after the movements of the squares we are reminded of how the popular surge of activism shook the foundations of European politics. The ensuing appearance of new political parties—envisioned as carrying the torch of popular participation—ha... Read More about Populism or the European condition?.

Politics of Impunity: Torture, the Armed Forces and the Failure of Transitional Justice in Brazil (2022)
Book

Confronting the gated community: Towards a decolonial critique of violence beyond the paradigm of war (2021)
Journal Article

This article investigates the works of Dussel, Maldonado-Torres, and Mbembe as representatives of a tendency in the field of decolonial thought to assume the templates of warfare and the camp as the archetypal registers of violence in the contemporar... Read More about Confronting the gated community: Towards a decolonial critique of violence beyond the paradigm of war.

The memory of militarism and the ‘value’ of resistance: An analysis of the Resistance Memorial of São Paulo (2020)
Journal Article

In the last 30 years, South American scholars and activists have produced a wealth of knowledge and representations practices concerning militarism and mass atrocities committed by the Armed Forces. Nonetheless, this body of work has been relatively... Read More about The memory of militarism and the ‘value’ of resistance: An analysis of the Resistance Memorial of São Paulo.

O "Efeito Bolsonaro" (2018)
Journal Article

O desrespeito a vida que define o " efeito Bolsonaro " nada mais é que a mais recente, e mais radical expressão de um desrespeito a vida generalizado que ainda estrutura a sociedade Brasileira contemporânea. English Español Parece uma piada de mal go... Read More about O "Efeito Bolsonaro".

El "Efecto Bolsonaro" (2018)
Journal Article

Bolsonaro se presenta hoy como el mesías de lo que muchos llaman “contraofensiva conservadora en construcción” tras décadas de gobiernos de izquierda. Su notoriedad ha experimentado un aumento estratosférico sólo en fechas muy recientes. Se presenta... Read More about El "Efecto Bolsonaro".

The "Bolsonaro Effect" (2018)
Journal Article

It sounds like a distasteful joke, but Brazilians are on the verge of electing a far-right president (Jair Messias Bolsonaro) and it is difficult to estimate what this means to progressive forces in Brazil. Español Português It sounds like a distaste... Read More about The "Bolsonaro Effect".

Impunity, the postcolony and the promise of justice (2017)
Digital Artefact

‘Impunity’ figures in 9 out of 10 lists of the biggest difficulties faced by societies in the so called Third World. Ask anyone for a quick synthesis of the ‘problem’ with African, Asian, Latin American countries and impunity – the absence of punishm... Read More about Impunity, the postcolony and the promise of justice.

On demons and dreamers: Violence, silence and the politics of impunity in the Brazilian Truth Commission (2017)
Journal Article

Measures towards post-conflict or post-authoritarian justice have historically relied on the merging of the concepts of silence, violence and impunity in order to create a single promise of justice. Scholars and practitioners in the field usually def... Read More about On demons and dreamers: Violence, silence and the politics of impunity in the Brazilian Truth Commission.

When does repression become political? The use of the language of trauma in the context of violence and anxiety (2017)
Book Chapter

In the history of psychoanalytical thought, anxiety is described as a form of fear that lacks an object of reference. Anxious individuals live in a condition of free-floating danger, always acting as though their actions could trigger apocalyptic sce... Read More about When does repression become political? The use of the language of trauma in the context of violence and anxiety.

Against state terror: lessons on memory, counterterrorism and resistance from the Global South (2015)
Journal Article

© 2015, © 2015 Taylor & Francis. Critical theory avows that “where there is power there is always resistance”. However, the practical implications and consequences of particular modes of resistance remain, within World Politics, under-theorised. In... Read More about Against state terror: lessons on memory, counterterrorism and resistance from the Global South.

Brazil's economy of violence: the 50-year noose (2014)
Journal Article

In 2014 the world’s gaze is turning to Brazil. The country is, after all, holding one of the globe’s most anticipated mega events, the football World Cup. As it were, Brazilian authorities are expected to perform accordantly, which they have consiste... Read More about Brazil's economy of violence: the 50-year noose.

Contextualismo enquanto metafísica da presença: A desconstrução do historicismo crítico pós-estruturalista (2012)
Journal Article

Theory of International Relations was influenced by French contemporary philosophy of the 1960's and 1970's. Poststructuralist authors like Walker, Thomson, Bartelson and Campbell sought to oppose neo realism's rigid ontology through a critical histo... Read More about Contextualismo enquanto metafísica da presença: A desconstrução do historicismo crítico pós-estruturalista.

Tempo e repetição na teoria de relações internacionais (2012)
Journal Article

The present paper analyses the concepts of structure from Neo-Realism and Poststructuralism in International Relations. Relating those concepts with the traditional and alternative notions of time, we demonstrate how neo-realists need the adoption of... Read More about Tempo e repetição na teoria de relações internacionais.