Marcela Uchôa

The COVID-19 pandemic created a unique political environment that required governments to implement strict measures to control the rapid spread of the virus. This period also served as a critical moment for the global far-right ideological resurgence, albeit with variations depending on local contexts. This article explores how protests, mobilizations,…

Chapter in Ethics of Care (Braga, 2024) – Advancing Global Bioethics – Springer/Nature Humanities book series Marcela Uchôa[1] Jonas Van Vossole[2] Abstract Abstract: The March 2020 implementation of the Informal Caregiver Statute in Portugal at the onset of the pandemic revives the need to debate the condition of women in…

The COVID-19 pandemic created a unique political environment that required governments to implement strict measures to control the rapid spread of the virus. This period also served as a critical moment for the global far-right ideological resurgence, albeit with variations depending on local contexts. This article explores how protests, mobilizations,…

O estudo das revoluções burguesas realizado por Hannah Arendt é um importante diagnóstico do impacto das políticas liberais, suas contradições e evolução, na história da democracia; reflete, ainda, as contradições e dicotomias do pensamento da filósofa. O republicanismo moderno, embora crítico do liberalismo, assimilou elementos inerentes à democracia liberal, como…

O texto discute a ideologia do fim da história, a partir de uma apreciação dodiscurso e da ação política da esquerda-radical. Constata-se que o ambiente políticochegou a uma espécie de realização da tese de Fukuyama, a partir de um paradigma docentrismo puro, pelo qual a esquerda migra para o centro,…

In ‘A Brief history of Portugal’, Raquel Varela and Roberto Della Santa analyse the last 200 years of Portuguese history through the lens of class struggles. The work is like Varela’s previous books, A People’s History of Europe (Pluto Press 2021) and A People’s History of the Portuguese Revolution (Pluto…