Antonio Pele, Author at Critical Legal Thinking

Antonio Pele

‘The King is Naked’: Bolsonaro & the Pandemic (Critique in times of Coronavirus)

by Antonio Pele | 10 Apr 2020 | Article

The current president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, has been relentlessly downplaying the dangers of the COVID-19 pandemic comparing it with a simple flue. He has claimed that the lowest social categories of the Brazilian population would be immune to diseases (“the...

Achille Mbembe: Necropolitics

by Antonio Pele | 2 Mar 2020 | Key Concepts

The economic and political management of human populations through their exposure to death has become a global phenomenon. Wars, genocides, refugee “crisis”, ecocide and contemporary processes of pauperization and precarization reveal how increasing masses of...