Henrique Tavares Furtado
Biographic Data
| ID | 366145 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Henrique Tavares Furtado |
| GIVEN NAMES | Henrique Tavares |
| FAMILY NAME | Furtado |
| SIGNATURE | FURTADO H T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of the West of England |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1917-3775 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 38 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
War is Not a Metaphor! The Role of Militarism and Militarisation in Far-Right Mainstreaming
This article critically examines the neglected role of militarism and militarisation in the process of far-right mainstreaming, focusing on a psychoanalytical and linguistic analysis of war metaphors. The first part of the article illustrates the historical links between fascism and ontological militarism, understood as a set of metaphorical substitutions between war/peace, activism/insurrection and dissent/enmity which contributed to the colonis…
Global After-Maths: Justice, Accountability, and Transformative Futures
With the ongoing genocide in Gaza, the Russian–Ukrainian War and the recent bombings of Iran, the political significance of the concept of “the aftermath” is due to be once again foregrounded as a central concern in the field of IR. Historically, IR has shown a cyclical interest in the question of accountability for historical wrongdoing, from the mismanagement of public health crises to war crimes, colonialism and chattel slavery. Yet critical w…
Should We Reconcile with the Far Right? The 2024 Race Riots in Britain and the End of Post-Fascism
This article interprets the pogrom in Southport and the subsequence events of the 2024 race riots in Britain as a rupture in the fantasy of post-fascism, the narrative separating the contemporary far right into violent and non-violent factions. More specifically, the article traces the concrete effects of this fantasy in two influential responses to present day right-wing violence: calls for national reconciliation and Chantal Mouffe’s proposal f…
Terrorism as an aesthetic signifier: The afterlives of terrorism discourse in Western reactions to wartime suffering
What are the legacies of the war on terror? This paper seeks to answer this question through an analysis of vernacular uses of terrorism discourse in political commentary on the Ukraine war. The paper describes how the set of tropes, ideas, and recurrent metaphors that constituted the historical backbone of narratives about terrorism before and after 9/11 is now being mobilised in the context of interstate conflict. Instead of rejecting such depl…
Demystifying trauma in international relations theory: From incomprehensibility to the liberatory real
Recent work on trauma and memory in international relations has sought to emphasize the key role trauma plays in state and community formation, security policies, the mediatization of atrocities, and transitional and social justice. This article problematizes the doxology of trauma in this body of work: the assumptions about the traumatic that go without saying because they come without saying in the discipline. We counter, in particular, interna…
The monstruous and the miscount: A Radical Theory of Accountability
Can public inquiries and truth commissions provide a space for political transformation? This article investigates the field of transitional justice to address this question, focusing on pessimistic accounts of the persistent failure of truth-telling practices. It identifies three main narratives on why truth commissions fail to promote change, namely the failure of implementation, failure of design and failure by design narratives. This article …
Critique of Ontological Militarism
War metaphors permeate the world we live in. From wildlife documentaries (natural war) to the curbing of academic freedom (war on woke), it seems that anything can be described in an essential likeness to warfare. Drawing on Lacanian psychoanalysis, this paper investigates the ubiquity of war metaphors in critiques of violence within Critical Security Studies and International Political Sociology. The analysis focuses on three concepts recently a…
Politics of Impunity: Torture, The Armed Forces and the Failure of Transitional Justice in Brazil
Politics of Impunity investigates the failure of the anti-impunity agenda in Brazil, from the release of the truth commission report denouncing the crimes of the military regime (1964-1985) in 2014, to the election of the former-paratrooper and far-Right leader Jair Bolsonaro in 2018. Connecting debates on critical military studies, transitional justice and memory studies, the book moves beyond the conditions of implementation of accountability m…
Populism or the European Condition
(Re)creative violence
This contribution builds on my current research in exploring alternative ways of understanding the phenomenon of violence, traditionally conceived of as either a destructive force or a system of injustice. By exploring my personal position navigating between the borders of different versions of Europe (the Swedish border and the walls of gated communities in Brazil) the contribution explains how, in the modern colonial world, violence adopts a (r…
Confronting the gated community: Towards a decolonial critique of violence beyond the paradigm of war
This article investigates the works of Dussel, Maldonado-Torres, and Mbembe as representatives of a tendency in the field of decolonial thought to assume the templates of warfare and the camp as the archetypal registers of violence in the contemporary world. Identifying this focus as the remnant of a Eurocentric vocabulary (the paradigm of war), the article proposes a shift from the language of warfare predominant in the field to a language of we…
The memory of militarism and the 'value' of resistance: An analysis of the Resistance Memorial of São Paulo
In the last 30 years, South American scholars and activists have produced a wealth of knowledge and representations practices concerning militarism and mass atrocities committed by the Armed Forces. Nonetheless, this body of work has been relatively neglected by debates in the field of Critical Military Studies (CMS). This paper attempts to bridge this gap by providing an analysis of the Resistance Memorial of São Paulo (RM-SP), a site inaugurate…
On demons and dreamers: Violence, silence and the politics of impunity in the Brazilian Truth Commission
Measures towards post-conflict or post-authoritarian justice have historically relied on the merging of the concepts of silence, violence and impunity in order to create a single promise of justice. Scholars and practitioners in the field usually defend a trifold agenda of breaking the silence about violations of human rights, denouncing systematic violence in the past and fighting impunity as the only way of ensuring that violence never happens …
Against state terror: Lessons on memory, counterterrorism and resistance from the Global South
Critical theory avows that “where there is power there is always resistance”. However, the practical implications and consequences of particular modes of resistance remain, within World Politics, under-theorised. In critical terrorism studies (CTS), this critical imperative to resist has recently emerged in the proposal to remember state terrorism. With this move, CTS aims to disturb the legitimacy of forms of violence/terror that emerge from the…
Confronting the gated community: Towards a decolonial critique of violence beyond the paradigm of war
This article investigates the works of Dussel, Maldonado-Torres, and Mbembe as representatives of a tendency in the field of decolonial thought to assume the templates of warfare and the camp as the archetypal registers of violence in the contemporary world. Identifying this focus as the remnant of a Eurocentric vocabulary (the paradigm of war), the article proposes a shift from the language of warfare predominant in the field to a language of we…
The monstruous and the miscount: A Radical Theory of Accountability
Can public inquiries and truth commissions provide a space for political transformation? This article investigates the field of transitional justice to address this question, focusing on pessimistic accounts of the persistent failure of truth-telling practices. It identifies three main narratives on why truth commissions fail to promote change, namely the failure of implementation, failure of design and failure by design narratives. This article …
On demons and dreamers: Violence, silence and the politics of impunity in the Brazilian Truth Commission
Measures towards post-conflict or post-authoritarian justice have historically relied on the merging of the concepts of silence, violence and impunity in order to create a single promise of justice. Scholars and practitioners in the field usually defend a trifold agenda of breaking the silence about violations of human rights, denouncing systematic violence in the past and fighting impunity as the only way of ensuring that violence never happens …
Against state terror: Lessons on memory, counterterrorism and resistance from the Global South
Critical theory avows that “where there is power there is always resistance”. However, the practical implications and consequences of particular modes of resistance remain, within World Politics, under-theorised. In critical terrorism studies (CTS), this critical imperative to resist has recently emerged in the proposal to remember state terrorism. With this move, CTS aims to disturb the legitimacy of forms of violence/terror that emerge from the…
The memory of militarism and the 'value' of resistance: An analysis of the Resistance Memorial of São Paulo
In the last 30 years, South American scholars and activists have produced a wealth of knowledge and representations practices concerning militarism and mass atrocities committed by the Armed Forces. Nonetheless, this body of work has been relatively neglected by debates in the field of Critical Military Studies (CMS). This paper attempts to bridge this gap by providing an analysis of the Resistance Memorial of São Paulo (RM-SP), a site inaugurate…
Demystifying trauma in international relations theory: From incomprehensibility to the liberatory real
Recent work on trauma and memory in international relations has sought to emphasize the key role trauma plays in state and community formation, security policies, the mediatization of atrocities, and transitional and social justice. This article problematizes the doxology of trauma in this body of work: the assumptions about the traumatic that go without saying because they come without saying in the discipline. We counter, in particular, interna…
Against state terror: Lessons on memory, counterterrorism and resistance from the Global South
Critical theory avows that “where there is power there is always resistance”. However, the practical implications and consequences of particular modes of resistance remain, within World Politics, under-theorised. In critical terrorism studies (CTS), this critical imperative to resist has recently emerged in the proposal to remember state terrorism. With this move, CTS aims to disturb the legitimacy of forms of violence/terror that emerge from the…
On demons and dreamers: Violence, silence and the politics of impunity in the Brazilian Truth Commission
Measures towards post-conflict or post-authoritarian justice have historically relied on the merging of the concepts of silence, violence and impunity in order to create a single promise of justice. Scholars and practitioners in the field usually defend a trifold agenda of breaking the silence about violations of human rights, denouncing systematic violence in the past and fighting impunity as the only way of ensuring that violence never happens …
The memory of militarism and the 'value' of resistance: An analysis of the Resistance Memorial of São Paulo
In the last 30 years, South American scholars and activists have produced a wealth of knowledge and representations practices concerning militarism and mass atrocities committed by the Armed Forces. Nonetheless, this body of work has been relatively neglected by debates in the field of Critical Military Studies (CMS). This paper attempts to bridge this gap by providing an analysis of the Resistance Memorial of São Paulo (RM-SP), a site inaugurate…
Confronting the gated community: Towards a decolonial critique of violence beyond the paradigm of war
This article investigates the works of Dussel, Maldonado-Torres, and Mbembe as representatives of a tendency in the field of decolonial thought to assume the templates of warfare and the camp as the archetypal registers of violence in the contemporary world. Identifying this focus as the remnant of a Eurocentric vocabulary (the paradigm of war), the article proposes a shift from the language of warfare predominant in the field to a language of we…
Politics of Impunity: Torture, The Armed Forces and the Failure of Transitional Justice in Brazil
Politics of Impunity investigates the failure of the anti-impunity agenda in Brazil, from the release of the truth commission report denouncing the crimes of the military regime (1964-1985) in 2014, to the election of the former-paratrooper and far-Right leader Jair Bolsonaro in 2018. Connecting debates on critical military studies, transitional justice and memory studies, the book moves beyond the conditions of implementation of accountability m…
Populism or the European Condition
(Re)creative violence
This contribution builds on my current research in exploring alternative ways of understanding the phenomenon of violence, traditionally conceived of as either a destructive force or a system of injustice. By exploring my personal position navigating between the borders of different versions of Europe (the Swedish border and the walls of gated communities in Brazil) the contribution explains how, in the modern colonial world, violence adopts a (r…
Critique of Ontological Militarism
War metaphors permeate the world we live in. From wildlife documentaries (natural war) to the curbing of academic freedom (war on woke), it seems that anything can be described in an essential likeness to warfare. Drawing on Lacanian psychoanalysis, this paper investigates the ubiquity of war metaphors in critiques of violence within Critical Security Studies and International Political Sociology. The analysis focuses on three concepts recently a…
Terrorism as an aesthetic signifier: The afterlives of terrorism discourse in Western reactions to wartime suffering
What are the legacies of the war on terror? This paper seeks to answer this question through an analysis of vernacular uses of terrorism discourse in political commentary on the Ukraine war. The paper describes how the set of tropes, ideas, and recurrent metaphors that constituted the historical backbone of narratives about terrorism before and after 9/11 is now being mobilised in the context of interstate conflict. Instead of rejecting such depl…
Demystifying trauma in international relations theory: From incomprehensibility to the liberatory real
Recent work on trauma and memory in international relations has sought to emphasize the key role trauma plays in state and community formation, security policies, the mediatization of atrocities, and transitional and social justice. This article problematizes the doxology of trauma in this body of work: the assumptions about the traumatic that go without saying because they come without saying in the discipline. We counter, in particular, interna…
The monstruous and the miscount: A Radical Theory of Accountability
Can public inquiries and truth commissions provide a space for political transformation? This article investigates the field of transitional justice to address this question, focusing on pessimistic accounts of the persistent failure of truth-telling practices. It identifies three main narratives on why truth commissions fail to promote change, namely the failure of implementation, failure of design and failure by design narratives. This article …
War is Not a Metaphor! The Role of Militarism and Militarisation in Far-Right Mainstreaming
This article critically examines the neglected role of militarism and militarisation in the process of far-right mainstreaming, focusing on a psychoanalytical and linguistic analysis of war metaphors. The first part of the article illustrates the historical links between fascism and ontological militarism, understood as a set of metaphorical substitutions between war/peace, activism/insurrection and dissent/enmity which contributed to the colonis…
Global After-Maths: Justice, Accountability, and Transformative Futures
With the ongoing genocide in Gaza, the Russian–Ukrainian War and the recent bombings of Iran, the political significance of the concept of “the aftermath” is due to be once again foregrounded as a central concern in the field of IR. Historically, IR has shown a cyclical interest in the question of accountability for historical wrongdoing, from the mismanagement of public health crises to war crimes, colonialism and chattel slavery. Yet critical w…
Should We Reconcile with the Far Right? The 2024 Race Riots in Britain and the End of Post-Fascism
This article interprets the pogrom in Southport and the subsequence events of the 2024 race riots in Britain as a rupture in the fantasy of post-fascism, the narrative separating the contemporary far right into violent and non-violent factions. More specifically, the article traces the concrete effects of this fantasy in two influential responses to present day right-wing violence: calls for national reconciliation and Chantal Mouffe’s proposal f…
Political science (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Politics (9 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Law (6 works) · Militarism (5 works) · Gender, Security, and Conflict (4 works) · Global Security and Public Health (4 works) · Political economy (4 works) · Accountability (3 works)