Sumários

Wrap up of the semester.

13 Maio 2026, 09:00 Susana Santos


Wrap up of the semester: theories, concepts, analytical tools and authors.
Why and how sociology study violence?
Final balance, what went best and worst in class. 
New topic proposals.

Symbolic violence

6 Maio 2026, 09:00 Susana Santos


Reading and discussion (group presentations).
Karl Von Holdt (2012). The violence of order, orders of violence: Between Fannon and Bourdieu. Current Sociology 61(2), pp.112-131.
Magdalena A Grzyb (2016) An explanation of honour-related killings of women in Europe through Bourdieu’s concept of symbolic violence and masculine domination. Current Sociology 64 (7), pp.

Gender, intimacy and violence.

29 Abril 2026, 09:00 Susana Santos


Reading and discussion (group presentation).
Jeff Hearn (2012) The sociological significance of domestic violence: Tensions, paradoxes and implications. Current Sociology 61(2): 152–170.

Violence and the state: structural and neoliberal violence.

22 Abril 2026, 09:00 Susana Santos


Reading and discussion (group presentation).
Loic Wacquant Punish the Poor. Prologue. America as ling laboratory of the Neoliberal future.
Juliana Côrrea et al. (2016) Poor youths and pacification: dilemmas between discourse and practice from the perspective of young people about policing  in Rio de Janeiro's favelas. International Sociology 31(1), pp. 100-120.
Shannon Walsh & Cecilia Menjivar (2016) Impunity and multisided violence in the lives of Latin American women: El Salvador in comparative perspective. Current Sociology Monograph 64(4), pp.586-602.

Violence and the state: biopolitics and necropolitics.

15 Abril 2026, 09:00 Susana Santos


Reading and discussion (group presentation) Achille Mbembe, Necropolitics.