The DemoJUST Doctoral Workshops aim to promote meetings between students enrolled in doctoral programmes and/or members of CES Working Groups, during which they can present and discuss their research topics among peers in an open, safe and critically constructive environment.

Based on an overarching theme entitled Justice, Human Rights and Democracy: Critical Perspectives and Legal Pluralisms - and, with a theoretical and/or methodological focus close to the DemosJUST Line, each Workshop will have 3 doctoral students and 2 commentators as active participants with the aim of fostering synergies with and between doctoral students, researchers and lecturers associated with CES. The Workshops will have a maximum duration of 2 hours.

Programme

Theme: Narratives, power and democracy: critical perspectives on discourse and citizenship

1. Camila Miranda Evangelista, PhD student at PUC-Rio, currently on a research internship at CES-UC, researching ‘The co-opting of the gender agenda by the far right: discursive strategies and democratic risks’

2. Luiza Bezerra, PIRC – ‘Mediatised discourses and (de)legitimation of refugees in Portugal: compared narratives on refugees' flows in 2015-2016 and 2021-2022’.

3. Sérgio Martins, Democracy in the 21st Century, Political influence and social participation: inconsistencies and new perspectives on participatory democracy in Brazil.’

Commentary: Inês Amaral (tbc) and Manuel João Cruz (tbc)