Sumários

Violence and the state: structural and neoliberal violence.

22 Abril 2026, 09:00 • Susana Alexandra Lopes da Costa 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 Alexandra Lopes da Costa Santos

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

Violence and colonialism

25 Março 2026, 09:00 • Susana Alexandra Lopes da Costa Santos

Reading and discussion (group presentations) of two texts: Frantz Fanon "The wretched of the earth" chapter 1  On violence, page 65-127; and Sari Hanafi "Explaining spacio-cide in the Palestinian territory: colonization, separation and state of exception. Current Sociology 61(2), pp.190-205.

Micro-sociological approaches

18 Março 2026, 09:00 • Susana Alexandra Lopes da Costa Santos

Randal Collins' theoretical and methodological proposal to study violence.
Violence as a interactional sitation.

Violence and society. Macro-sociological approaches.

11 Março 2026, 09:00 • Susana Alexandra Lopes da Costa Santos

Violence and society. Macro-sociological approaches.
Political violence.
Metapolitical violence.
A typology of subjectivation processes.