Rosana De Freitas Boullosa
Biographic Data
| ID | 1507490 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rosana De Freitas Boullosa |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rosana De Freitas |
| FAMILY NAME | Boullosa |
| SIGNATURE | BOULLOSA R F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidade de Brasília |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6729-2106 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
On domesticated hybrids and misplaced dialogues: Troubles with positivist legacies
This essay critically examines recent attempts to build methodological and epistemological ‘bridges’ between positivism and interpretivism in policy research. While often presented as gestures of dialogue or pluralism, such efforts frequently conceal power asymmetries that privilege positivist logics. The result is what I term domesticated hybrids – works that adopt the language of interpretivism while neutralizing its critical and political forc…
Critical reflexivity in policy studies is “a skin, not a sweater” – debating a common ground between interpretivism and positivism
Departing from all semblance of democracy: How Scholarly Communities Can Respond to the Rise of Oligarchy and Authoritarianism
Finally, a new global agenda on Harold Lasswell
Fifteen years of Critical Policy Studies: Achievements, challenges, and the tensions of growth
Por uma nova agenda de revisão crítica do duplo construto lasswelliano policy science e policy orientation: Democracia, Pragmatismo E Criticidade
A relevância de Harold Lasswell para os estudos de políticas públicas é inegável. A sua extensa pesquisa estimulou muitas novas contribuições, particularmente em relação ao duplo construto policy science e policy orientation. Embora seja amplamente reconhecido como o ponto de partida para um novo campo do conhecimento, o duplo construto não vinha sendo estudado em profundidade há muito tempo. No entanto, tem havido um ressurgimento recente do int…
Democratizing science is an urgent, collective, and continuous project: Expanding the boundaries of critical policy studies
The democratic transformation of public policy through community activism in Brazil
This article explores transformational change in public policy through community-based governance and the collective design of experience-oriented policy and action. Using a critical-interpretive theoretical perspective, we derived three key lessons in achieving this change from the experience of Paraisópolis, a Brazilian favela made famous for its COVID-19 successful response plan, despite historical state abandonment and overlapping vulnerabili…
Lasswell and the mirror of time: Considering some of the questions raised by Torgerson
The mirror proposed by Douglas Torgerson provides a very strong reflexivity dimension: what can we learn, as part of critical policy studies, while seeing ourselves in the reflection in the mirror, and at the same time separate and contrasted with that image? Among the questions suggested by that metaphor of the mirror, two of them seem particularly significant to me: 1) What is our political agenda? 2) What is our approach to democracy? Consider…
Policy Analysis in Brazil: A Comparison of Rationalist and Argumentative Approaches – Commentary
The democratic transformation of public policy through community activism in Brazil
This article explores transformational change in public policy through community-based governance and the collective design of experience-oriented policy and action. Using a critical-interpretive theoretical perspective, we derived three key lessons in achieving this change from the experience of Paraisópolis, a Brazilian favela made famous for its COVID-19 successful response plan, despite historical state abandonment and overlapping vulnerabili…
Lasswell and the mirror of time: Considering some of the questions raised by Torgerson
The mirror proposed by Douglas Torgerson provides a very strong reflexivity dimension: what can we learn, as part of critical policy studies, while seeing ourselves in the reflection in the mirror, and at the same time separate and contrasted with that image? Among the questions suggested by that metaphor of the mirror, two of them seem particularly significant to me: 1) What is our political agenda? 2) What is our approach to democracy? Consider…
Policy Analysis in Brazil: A Comparison of Rationalist and Argumentative Approaches – Commentary
Lasswell and the mirror of time: Considering some of the questions raised by Torgerson
The mirror proposed by Douglas Torgerson provides a very strong reflexivity dimension: what can we learn, as part of critical policy studies, while seeing ourselves in the reflection in the mirror, and at the same time separate and contrasted with that image? Among the questions suggested by that metaphor of the mirror, two of them seem particularly significant to me: 1) What is our political agenda? 2) What is our approach to democracy? Consider…
The democratic transformation of public policy through community activism in Brazil
This article explores transformational change in public policy through community-based governance and the collective design of experience-oriented policy and action. Using a critical-interpretive theoretical perspective, we derived three key lessons in achieving this change from the experience of Paraisópolis, a Brazilian favela made famous for its COVID-19 successful response plan, despite historical state abandonment and overlapping vulnerabili…
Democratizing science is an urgent, collective, and continuous project: Expanding the boundaries of critical policy studies
Fifteen years of Critical Policy Studies: Achievements, challenges, and the tensions of growth
Por uma nova agenda de revisão crítica do duplo construto lasswelliano policy science e policy orientation: Democracia, Pragmatismo E Criticidade
A relevância de Harold Lasswell para os estudos de políticas públicas é inegável. A sua extensa pesquisa estimulou muitas novas contribuições, particularmente em relação ao duplo construto policy science e policy orientation. Embora seja amplamente reconhecido como o ponto de partida para um novo campo do conhecimento, o duplo construto não vinha sendo estudado em profundidade há muito tempo. No entanto, tem havido um ressurgimento recente do int…
Critical reflexivity in policy studies is “a skin, not a sweater” – debating a common ground between interpretivism and positivism
Departing from all semblance of democracy: How Scholarly Communities Can Respond to the Rise of Oligarchy and Authoritarianism
Finally, a new global agenda on Harold Lasswell
On domesticated hybrids and misplaced dialogues: Troubles with positivist legacies
This essay critically examines recent attempts to build methodological and epistemological ‘bridges’ between positivism and interpretivism in policy research. While often presented as gestures of dialogue or pluralism, such efforts frequently conceal power asymmetries that privilege positivist logics. The result is what I term domesticated hybrids – works that adopt the language of interpretivism while neutralizing its critical and political forc…
Political science (8 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Democracy (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Public Administration (3 works) · Public Administration (3 works) · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice (2 works) · Education and Public Policy (2 works)