The Faces of Authoritarianism and Strategies of Dissent in Contemporary Brazil
Hatzikidi, Katerina, and Andreza Aruska De Souza Santos. The Faces of Authoritarianism and Strategies of Dissent in Contemporary Brazil. UCL Press, 2025.
Hatzikidi, Katerina, and Andreza Aruska De Souza Santos. The Faces of Authoritarianism and Strategies of Dissent in Contemporary Brazil. UCL Press, 2025.
Bastos Lima, M. G., Hatzikidi, K., & da Costa, K. (2025). “Gore Capitalism and Necropolitics in Brazil’s Malgovernance of the COVID-19 Pandemic.” Latin American Perspectives, January 2025.
Hatzikidi, Katerina. “The Ambiguous Other. Engaging with Far Right and Other Uncomfortable Subjectivities.” Vibrant, v.21/e211010, Brasilia, 2024, https://doi.org/10.1590/1809-43412024v21e211010.
Dullo, E., K. Hatzikidi, and L. Cesarino. (eds.) 2023. “Por uma antropologia da democracia -e de seus desafios”. Special Issue: Antropologia e Democracia. Horizontes Antropológicos 29 (65): 1-31. https://doi.org/10.1590/1806-9983e650201
Hatzikidi, Katerina. “‘The Communavirus Is Here.’” Covid Conspiracy Theories in Global Perspective, edited by Michael Butter and Peter Knight, Routledge, New York, NY, 2023, pp. 366–377.
Discussing some of the conspiracy rumors and theories that circulated during the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil, this essay explores the fear of communism as a recurrent conspiracist trope in the country’s recent history. Unlike many conspiracy theories that can be described as bottom-up and suspicious of the national government, the Brazilian case shows the opposite tendency: the strategic use of conspiracist narratives to reinforce the powers that be.
Hatzikidi, Katerina. “Covid Conspiracies in Brazil: The Old Communist Spectre Revisited.” Culturico, 24 Mar. 2022, https://culturico.com/2022/03/26/covid-conspiracies-in-brazil-the-old-communist-spectre-revisited/.
Hatzikidi, Katerina. “Pierre Ostiguy, Francisco Panizza and Benjamin Moffitt (Eds.), Populism in Global Perspective: A Performative and Discursive Approach (Abingdon: Routledge, 2021)” Journal of Latin American Studies, vol. 54, no. 1, 2022, pp. 175–177., doi:10.1017/S0022216X22000128.
Hatzikidi, Katerina. “Review: Sá Motta, Rodrigo Patto. On guard against the red menace: Anti-communism in Brazil, 1917-1964″, ‘Journal for Bazilian Studies, vol. 10, no. 2, 2021, pp. 442–444.
Hatzikidi, Katerina. “Populism’s Ambiguity: Reflecting on Bolsonarism.” Brazilian Research and Studies Blog, vol. 3, no. 1, Feb. 2022, https://bras-center.com/populisms-ambiguity-reflecting-on-bolsonarism/. Accessed 9 Nov. 2022.
Enquanto Bolsonaro e Lula se preparam para as eleições de 2022, alguns brasileiros exigem uma alternativa. Mas quais são os riscos?
Hatzikidi, Katerina. “Existe Uma ‘Terceira via’ Para o Brasil?” OpenDemocracy, Dec. 2021, https://www.opendemocracy.net/pt/existe-uma-terceira-via-para-o-brasil/.