Paulo Ravecca
Biographic Data
| ID | 270747 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paulo Ravecca |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paulo |
| FAMILY NAME | Ravecca |
| SIGNATURE | RAVECCA P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidad de la República de Uruguay |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9754-9520 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
(Latin) American Political Theory? In-Betweenness and Intersecting Exclusions
This essay critically explores the landscape of political theory through our transient experiences as theorists who were raised and educated in Latin America and obtained PhD degrees from North American universities. We argue that our transiting through geographies, styles of thinking, and modes of writing—what we call in-betweenness—can distinctly nurture democratic conversations and theorizing. Yet these opportunities tend to be hijacked by a s…
Money-Power-Merit
Reading the Far Right Beyond Self-Righteousness
This article is an invitation to reflect on the far right beyond self-righteousness. The authors challenge the conventional perception of the far right as wholly separate from mainstream politics and society, arguing instead that there is substantial overlap, particularly in terms of patriarchy, racism, and neoliberalism. Nonetheless, the right does innovate and evolve, and it is important to make sense of these shifts. The article's second secti…
What is Left for Critique? On the Perils of Innocence in Neoliberal Times
This essay explores the implications of what we call attachments to innocence for critical scholarship and progressive politics. After tracing the appearance of innocence in various strands of contemporary thought, we turn to how it shields individuals and groups from examining the depth of our own participation in oppression and harm. This evasion of responsibility works in our perspective as a hindrance to understanding power and engaging with …
Qué queda para la crítica? Sobre los peligros de la inocencia en tiempos neoliberales
Este artículo explora las implicaciones para la academia y la política de lo que llamamos apegos a la inocencia. Luego de rastrear las formas en que la inocencia aparece en diferentes corrientes del pensamiento contemporáneo, nos concentramos en cómo ella protege a individuos y grupos de confrontar nuestra profunda participación en la opresión. Esta evasión de la responsabilidad funciona, en nuestra perspectiva, como un obstáculo para comprender …
Interseccionalidad de derecha e ideología de género en América Latina
Este artículo explora lo que denominamos interseccionalidad de derecha (ID). Al igual que la perspectiva académica y activista de la interseccionalidad, la ID atiende a la interrelación entre distintos ejes de posicionamiento social y desigualdad. Sin embargo, el contraste entre ellas no podría ser mayor, ya que la ID no moviliza intersecciones para cuestionar el poder, sino para legitimar el statu quo y naturalizar mecanismos de opresión. El art…
What are they doing right ? Tweeting right-wing intersectionality in Latin America
Despite the contributions of intersectional approaches, the academic and political left is challenged by competing interests in class, gender, race, and other axes of inequality and power. The disconnect between research on political economy, on the one hand, and on culture and subjectivity, on the other, is stark in Latin American studies. In contrast, an emerging feature of the global radical right is the gathering of these dimensions in simult…
The People's Paving Stones
Baldosas por la memoria are memorial paving stones handcrafted by loosely networked activists. Produced continuously from 2006 to an informally established protocol, they memorialize 'the disappeared' and others murdered by the state terrorism of the Argentinian dictatorship (1976-1983). As a synecdoche of the 'down and dirty' everyday pavements, they function as a metonym for democratic struggle and popular sovereignty. Aesthetically, they work …
Dictatorship, transition, and the forging of political science in Uruguay
Argument The study examines the trajectory of Uruguayan Political Science (PS) from a critical theory perspective. Concretely, the article focuses on PS’ institutional birth and early period (1980s and 1990s) and shows how broader political and ideological transformations had a significant impact on its discourse on Uruguayan democracy. Three components of such discourse are unpacked: The embrace of liberalism, the rejection of Marxism, and the u…
Power, politics, and the development of political science in the Americas
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Respuesta a Jerónimo Ríos Sierra y Diego Rossello
Narrative and the Possibilities for Scholarship
This article explores the recent expansion of narrative approaches in international relations (IR) and the conceptual and political possibilities it brings about. Instead of suggesting a set of criteria through which we should evaluate narrative texts, we investigate what they are already doing in IR scholarship. We show that the space which narrative writing delineates through the encounter between text and reader/reading potentiates critique an…
Our Discipline and its Politics
In most accounts Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship is understood to have impeded the development of political science in Chile.This article seeks to destabilize this understanding by showing that important elements of the infrastructure of the discipline were created during, and sometimes by this authoritarian regime.More concretely, through an in-depth and extensive examination of the political science produced during the Chilean dictatorship, I i…
Narrative and the Possibilities for Scholarship
This article explores the recent expansion of narrative approaches in international relations (IR) and the conceptual and political possibilities it brings about. Instead of suggesting a set of criteria through which we should evaluate narrative texts, we investigate what they are already doing in IR scholarship. We show that the space which narrative writing delineates through the encounter between text and reader/reading potentiates critique an…
Our Discipline and its Politics
In most accounts Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship is understood to have impeded the development of political science in Chile.This article seeks to destabilize this understanding by showing that important elements of the infrastructure of the discipline were created during, and sometimes by this authoritarian regime.More concretely, through an in-depth and extensive examination of the political science produced during the Chilean dictatorship, I i…
The People's Paving Stones
Baldosas por la memoria are memorial paving stones handcrafted by loosely networked activists. Produced continuously from 2006 to an informally established protocol, they memorialize 'the disappeared' and others murdered by the state terrorism of the Argentinian dictatorship (1976-1983). As a synecdoche of the 'down and dirty' everyday pavements, they function as a metonym for democratic struggle and popular sovereignty. Aesthetically, they work …
What are they doing right ? Tweeting right-wing intersectionality in Latin America
Despite the contributions of intersectional approaches, the academic and political left is challenged by competing interests in class, gender, race, and other axes of inequality and power. The disconnect between research on political economy, on the one hand, and on culture and subjectivity, on the other, is stark in Latin American studies. In contrast, an emerging feature of the global radical right is the gathering of these dimensions in simult…
Our Discipline and its Politics
In most accounts Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship is understood to have impeded the development of political science in Chile.This article seeks to destabilize this understanding by showing that important elements of the infrastructure of the discipline were created during, and sometimes by this authoritarian regime.More concretely, through an in-depth and extensive examination of the political science produced during the Chilean dictatorship, I i…
Narrative and the Possibilities for Scholarship
This article explores the recent expansion of narrative approaches in international relations (IR) and the conceptual and political possibilities it brings about. Instead of suggesting a set of criteria through which we should evaluate narrative texts, we investigate what they are already doing in IR scholarship. We show that the space which narrative writing delineates through the encounter between text and reader/reading potentiates critique an…
Respuesta a Jerónimo Ríos Sierra y Diego Rossello
Dictatorship, transition, and the forging of political science in Uruguay
Argument The study examines the trajectory of Uruguayan Political Science (PS) from a critical theory perspective. Concretely, the article focuses on PS’ institutional birth and early period (1980s and 1990s) and shows how broader political and ideological transformations had a significant impact on its discourse on Uruguayan democracy. Three components of such discourse are unpacked: The embrace of liberalism, the rejection of Marxism, and the u…
Power, politics, and the development of political science in the Americas
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The People's Paving Stones
Baldosas por la memoria are memorial paving stones handcrafted by loosely networked activists. Produced continuously from 2006 to an informally established protocol, they memorialize 'the disappeared' and others murdered by the state terrorism of the Argentinian dictatorship (1976-1983). As a synecdoche of the 'down and dirty' everyday pavements, they function as a metonym for democratic struggle and popular sovereignty. Aesthetically, they work …
What is Left for Critique? On the Perils of Innocence in Neoliberal Times
This essay explores the implications of what we call attachments to innocence for critical scholarship and progressive politics. After tracing the appearance of innocence in various strands of contemporary thought, we turn to how it shields individuals and groups from examining the depth of our own participation in oppression and harm. This evasion of responsibility works in our perspective as a hindrance to understanding power and engaging with …
Qué queda para la crítica? Sobre los peligros de la inocencia en tiempos neoliberales
Este artículo explora las implicaciones para la academia y la política de lo que llamamos apegos a la inocencia. Luego de rastrear las formas en que la inocencia aparece en diferentes corrientes del pensamiento contemporáneo, nos concentramos en cómo ella protege a individuos y grupos de confrontar nuestra profunda participación en la opresión. Esta evasión de la responsabilidad funciona, en nuestra perspectiva, como un obstáculo para comprender …
Interseccionalidad de derecha e ideología de género en América Latina
Este artículo explora lo que denominamos interseccionalidad de derecha (ID). Al igual que la perspectiva académica y activista de la interseccionalidad, la ID atiende a la interrelación entre distintos ejes de posicionamiento social y desigualdad. Sin embargo, el contraste entre ellas no podría ser mayor, ya que la ID no moviliza intersecciones para cuestionar el poder, sino para legitimar el statu quo y naturalizar mecanismos de opresión. El art…
What are they doing right ? Tweeting right-wing intersectionality in Latin America
Despite the contributions of intersectional approaches, the academic and political left is challenged by competing interests in class, gender, race, and other axes of inequality and power. The disconnect between research on political economy, on the one hand, and on culture and subjectivity, on the other, is stark in Latin American studies. In contrast, an emerging feature of the global radical right is the gathering of these dimensions in simult…
Reading the Far Right Beyond Self-Righteousness
This article is an invitation to reflect on the far right beyond self-righteousness. The authors challenge the conventional perception of the far right as wholly separate from mainstream politics and society, arguing instead that there is substantial overlap, particularly in terms of patriarchy, racism, and neoliberalism. Nonetheless, the right does innovate and evolve, and it is important to make sense of these shifts. The article's second secti…
(Latin) American Political Theory? In-Betweenness and Intersecting Exclusions
This essay critically explores the landscape of political theory through our transient experiences as theorists who were raised and educated in Latin America and obtained PhD degrees from North American universities. We argue that our transiting through geographies, styles of thinking, and modes of writing—what we call in-betweenness—can distinctly nurture democratic conversations and theorizing. Yet these opportunities tend to be hijacked by a s…
Money-Power-Merit
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