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/.
This paper focuses on the politics of life and death in Bolsonaro’s Brazil during the COVID-19 pandemic. It is argued that while this administration, and the president himself, have long supported violence against individuals and social groups they did not see as fully human, their response to the pandemic marked a public transition from valuing certain kinds of lives as opposed to others to a general contempt for human lives. The paper explores this transition by discussing the reification of the economy to the detriment of the people who produce and consume.
Hatzikidi, Katerina. “The Worst Is Not Over Yet: The Lives and Deaths of the ‘Self’ and ‘Others’ in Brazil’s Response to the COVID‐19 Pandemic.” Bulletin of Latin American Research, vol. 39, no. S1, 2020, pp. 71–74., https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.13187.
Hatzikidi, Katerina. “Bolsonaro y El Mito Del Presidente ‘Antiestablishment’: Nueva Sociedad.” Nueva Sociedad | Democracia y Política En América Latina, 12 Jan. 2021, https://www.nuso.org/articulo/bolsonaro-y-el-mito-del-antiestablishment/.
Hatzikidi, Katerina. “The Tamed and the Untameable: How the Establishment Is Serving Bolsonaro’s Authoritarianism.” OpenDemocracy, 6 Jan. 2021, https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/democraciaabierta/how-brazil-establishment-serves-bolsonaro-authoritarian-project/.