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Grandes barragens e o processamento de dados nos anos oitenta: Tucuruí, Brasil e Guri, Venezuela
Full text linkBrazilian Jiu-jitsu as a Marker of Whiteness and Anti-Blackness: Embodying Inclusive Conservative Conviviality in Rio de Janeiro
Full text linkIn Rio de Janeiro, Brazilian jiu-jitsu (BJJ) practitioners often perceive their sport as a discrimination-free space, stating: “On the mats, everyone is equal”. However, this belief in equality can sometimes obscure the fact that BJJ has been predominantly associated with Whiteness. This paper explores how the Gracie and Fadda lineages – crucial for the sport’s development – have distinctively constructed BJJ as a White sport, each for their own purposes. The Gracie lineage, associated with the city’s affluent South Zone, employs Whiteness to reinforce their distinguished position and supposed superiority in BJJ. The Fadda lineage, working in social projects in Rio’s low-income North and West Zones, uses anti-Blackness to avoid the association of their disciples with drug trafficking in favelas, aiming to offer them new life perspectives. I argue that Whiteness and anti-Blackness are constitutive elements linking the appeal of Bolsonaro and neoconservativism with communities typically expected to instead support other political forces more interested in progressive socio-political change. To analytically grasp the ambivalent conviviality of both BJJ lineages in today’s political current, I introduce the term “inclusive conservative conviviality”, which turns out to be crucial for understanding Brazil’s reactionary moment
Del "Ni Una Menos" al "Keine Mehr". La construcción del femi(ni)cidio como problema público en Alemania
Full text linkLa memoria en España hoy y el auge global de las nuevas derechas: postfranquismo, postverdad y la debilitación de la democracia
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On the Earth Ethic: Interview with Dipesh Chakrabarty
Full text linkThis interview with historian Dipesh Chakrabarty discusses his book The Climate of
History in a Planetary Age (The University of Chicago Press, 2021) which proposes
understanding the human condition during times of crisis from both a planetary and a global perspective. In this interview, Chakrabarty suggests that adopting a planetary perspective, which de-centres the human, can provide a new outlook that enables us to respond more effectively to contemporary crises, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, something that is urgently necessary due to the failure of human agency to adequately deal with the COVID-19 pandemic and the climate crisis. He further addresses the ambivalent role that technology and the state play in today’s troubled times. The interview was conducted as part of the international lecture series “Making Sense of the Post-Covid World: Continuities and Changes” which seeks to discuss the ambivalent consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic on social life. The lecture series, sponsored by the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung, was developed in collaboration with the Institute for Latin American Studies at Freie Universität Berlin, the Hamburg Institute for Social Research, and the Institute for Social and Political Studies at the State University of Rio de Janeiro
