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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.
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. “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/.
Hatzikidi, Katerina. “Kapferer, Bruce and Dimitrios Theodossopoulos (eds.) 2019. Democracy’s paradox: populism and its contemporary crisis. New York/Oxford: Berghahn Books. 100 pp. Pb: US$14.95/£11.95. ISBN: 9781789201550.”. Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale 29.1 (2021): 258-260.
Hatzikidi, Katerina. “Introduction to: A Meteoric Rise to Power? Ethnographic Insights on Brazil’s Conservative Turn.” Bulletin of Latin American Research, 6 July 2021, https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.13209.
Hatzikidi, Katerina. “Review: Religious Imaginations and Global Transitions: How Narratives of Faith are Shaping Today’s World”, Reading Religion, Oct. 2020, https://readingreligion.org/9781909942202/ Accessed Nov. 2022.
Butter, Michael. “Why Do We Believe in Conspiracy Theories?” Cicero Foundation Great Debate Paper, vol. 21, no. 3, Mar. 2021.
Whether it’s the ‘stab-in-the-back’ myth after World War I, the international Jewish conspiracy, or the child pornography ring that supposedly involved presidential candidate Hillary Clinton (Pizzagate), conspiracy theories have a long history. And today, with the advent of fake news and internet trolls, they are more prevalent than ever. Their impact on the public also depends on a nation’s cultural factors.
Butter, Michael. “The Power of Conspiracy.” Reset Europe: Time for Culture to Give Europe New Momentum?, vol. 2020, no. 10, pp. 274–279.