Denise Ferreira da Silva, Author at Critical Legal Thinking

Denise Ferreira da Silva

Professor of Ethics, Queen Mary, University of London.

‘Why is no one counting the thousands of deaths of black youth in Brazil resulting from police actions?’

by Denise Ferreira da Silva | 29 Nov 2014

Two days ago, a US American friend of mine, who lives in Rio, asked this question on a Facebook post. I don't have an answer. I have a rant. Everyone who like me has lost friends and relatives to state violence never stopped counting. What we need is a political...

White Feminist Fatigue Syndrome

by Brenna Bhandar and Denise Ferreira da Silva | 21 Oct 2013

In her recent piece in Comment is Free, "How feminism became capitalism's handmaiden - and how to reclaim it” Nancy Fraser draws on her own work in political theory to argue that feminism at best has been co-opted by neoliberalism and at worst has been a...