Da biopolítica à necropolítica contra os povos indígenas durante a ditadura militar brasileira (1964-1985) by Rodrigo Alvarenga, Elston Américo

“…Considering the violations of the human rights of indigenous peoples during the military dictatorship period in Brazil, the present study aims to analyze such violations from the point of view of biopolitics, considering their development in the perspectives of Foucault, Agamben, and Mbembe, in order to demonstrate that the genocidal and ethnocidal practices of that period do not only derive from an exposition to death related to state racism or the typification of slaughterable life, but also consist in a deliberate practice of making die, which brings Brazilian indigenous politics of the period closer to a necropolitics.…”
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Rasga Coração, de Vianinha, e Hair: aproximação e distanciamento num contexto de contracultura by Éwerton Silva de Oliveira

“…Considering the plays’ formal and content structure, and the political and cultural movements of the 60’s and 70’s youth  the counterculture among them  in the North - American context and in the B razilian historical process (including the dictatorship present in Brazil in these decades), this article aims to analyze how the musical called Hair (1967), by the American actors James Rado and Gerome Ragni, and Rasga coração (1974), a play by the Brazil ian playwright Oduvaldo Vianna Filho (Vianinha), represent the presence of the counterculture, with its innovations and contradictions, similarities and differences, in Brazil and in the United States. …”
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Science Before Dinner: Science popularization in Francoist Spain through the Los Progresos Científicos Broadcast by Boleda Jordi Ferran

“…Through the case study of Manuel Vidal Españó (1905-1984), a Spanish engineer and science popularizer, this paper addresses some features of science popularization in Franco’s dictatorship (1939-1975), such as the apolitical and uncritical techno-optimism and the (dis)continuities with the previous political regime. …”
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Qual será a verdade do jeitinho brasileiro? Perspectivas sobre a Comissão Nacional da Verdade do Brasil by Rodrigo Stumpf González, Rodrigo Lentz

“…After 31 years of dictatorship, military power was transferred to a civilian president for 27 years ago. …”
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How to resist fear. ETA terrorism and Basque Socialism, 1995-2011 by Sara Hidalgo García de Orellán

“…This emotional suffering was a constitutive part of the culture of resistance that Basque socialism redefined at this time -and linked to the resistance carried out by the socialists in the years of the Franco dictatorship-. In this redefinition, the strategies to overcome fear were the political commitment, anger, and courage, a feeling of pride for fighting against ETA, and strong group solidarity. …”
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Common Sense Diagrams: The US Two-Party System in Magruder’s American Government, 1917–2023 by Janne Holmén

“…From 1939, the two-party system was considered a trait of English-speaking countries and was contrasted to the chaotic multiparty systems in Europe, which could end up in dictatorship. From the 1950s, the two-party system was explained as an effect of the electoral system and as a reflection of the lack of divisions in US society. …”
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Baltic Linguistics in Lithuania During a Century by Bonifacas Stundžia

“…It goes on to look at the oppressive time of the post-war ideological dictatorship, when, in principle, only activities of a practical nature were possible. …”
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Transitional justice and impunity for fascism in southern Europe: The case of Spain in a comparative perspective by Roque Moreno Fonseret, Pedro Payá López

“…Although impunity accompanied all the processes studied, the comparison reveals the singularity of the Spanish case, with a greater degree of consequence of a transition to a non-disruptive democracy with the Franco dictatorship. In the same way, in all cases, reconciliation with the past has extended into the 21st century and it has also been in Spain where it has presented the greatest difficulties. …”
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Coup (d'etat) in the Baltic States (1926, 1934): Similarities and Differences by Zenonas Butkus

“…The international situation was different as well: growing activity of the right-wing radicals after fascists took power in Germany and consolidation of Stalin’s dictatorship in the USSR. The most significant difference is thought to lie in the fact that the 1926 coup was directed against the reforms that were planned or undertaken by the left-wing coalition, while the 1934 political upheavals attempted to prevent a possible takeover by the right-wing extremists, though some data can be found that by means of a coup K. …”
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The hermeneutical concepts of Minjung theology in historical perspective by Y.S. Cho

“…It can be stated that the gospel is contextualised in an encounter with the socio-political injustice and the religious-cultural spirituality within the specific national context during the military dictatorships of the 1970s and the 1980s. …”
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