Comments: Cristiano Gianolla (CES)

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This seminar seeks to analyse the theme of democracy in the light of affections, observing how its conformation - whether in a macro perspective or in the more specific context of everyday life - has been influenced by a set of emotions/affective relations: from joy and self-esteem via friendship and belonging, providing spaces of social emancipation to the waves of resentment and hatred propagated in social networks, with concrete effects on the growth of the far right in several countries.

The first presentation - "Affection, democracy and technopolitics in Brazil: a feminist approach", will focus on the macro aspects of the relationship between democracy, affections and politics, seeking to answer the following question: to what extent the study of democracies has taken into account the presence and effervescence of affections in their conformation, now mediated and potentiated by technopolitical devices?

The second presentation - "The place of the affections in the reconfiguration of the sense of the political and in the strengthening of economic democracy" - will resume the relationship between politics and economics in the construction of robust proposals for social emancipation.

Bio notes

Alcione Silva is a PhD candidate in the Democracy in the 21st Century Programme at the Centre for Social Studies at the University of Coimbra (CES-UC). She holds a BA (1998), a BSc (1999) and a MA (2007) in Psychology from the University of São Paulo, Brazil. She has extensive experience in public management and project coordination in the areas of democracy and digital culture. She has worked as a researcher and consultant in several projects in Brazil, including international organisations such as UNESCO. In the last 14 years, she has been working mainly on the following themes: Solidarity Economy, Digital Inclusion, Digital Culture, Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), Feminist Data, Network Intelligence, Participatory Democracy and federal public policies in Brazil related to Culture, Education, Communication and Youth

Luciane Lucas dos Santos is a researcher at the Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra, co-coordinating the Research Group on Democracy, Citizenship and Law (DECIDe). I integrate the academic staff of the PhD Programme in "Democracy in the 21st Century" in Portugal (CES/UC) and co-coordinate two Study Groups - one related to issues such as economic democracy and other focused on religion, gender and politics. From 2016 to 2018, I was Visiting Professor at the Federal University of Southern Bahia (Brazil), being part of the academic staff of its Doctoral Programme. I hold a PhD in Communication and Culture from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (2004) and a Master's Degree from the same institution (1999), having had a long academic career as senior lecturer and researcher (tenured position) at the State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ/Brazil). I have moved to Sociology for 15 years, being focused on consumption studies and economic sociology. The most recent years have been also dedicated to a sociological approach regarding three intertwined issues - gender, economy and politics. My main research and lecturing interests are: feminist economics, feminist aesthetics, postcolonial feminisms, postcolonial studies on consumption and Economics, poverty and social inequalities from an interseccional perspective, European identities and the Otherness.

Cristiano Gianolla is a researcher at the Centre for Social Studies (CES) of the University of Coimbra (UC), where he is part of the research unit on Democracy, Citizenship and Law. He obtained a PhD in Sociology and Political Science (cum Laude, Coimbra and Rome-Sapienza) by way of a dissertation on Gandhi's democratic theory and a comparative study of emerging political parties in India and Italy. Cristiano is the Principal Investigator of the UNPOP project (FCT, 2021-2024) and is a team member of the ECHOES (H2020, 2018-2021) and ALICE (ERC, 2011-2016) European projects. He is a founding member of the "Inter-Thematic group on Migrations" and co-coordinates the research group "Epistemologies of the South" at CES. He is coordinating editor of the Alice News, editor of e-cadernos scientific journal and Rightsblog, and a referee for other scientific journals. Cristiano coordinates the PhD course "Democratic Theories and Institutions", the MA course "Critical Intercultural Dialogue" (both at the Faculty of Economics of the UC), and the virtual course "The Challenges to Democracy in the XXI Century" (Latin American Council of Social Sciences). He has authored two books, and various articles and chapters elaborating on democratic theory, populism, postcolonialism, intercultural dialogue, heritage processes, movement-parties, citizenship, human rights, migrations, and cosmopolitanism. His current research interests focus on emotions and narratives in democratic processes.

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