Douglas de Toledo Piza, Author at Public Seminar

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Regarding the “Institution-building, Governance and Compliance in Brazil: Politics, Policy and Business” Event

An Open Letter from members of the New School Community

February 6, 2017 • by Joana Avritzer, Mayra Cotta, Douglas de Toledo Piza, Victoria Echeverria De Carvalho, Flávia Leite, Tiago Lima, Luiza Nassif Pires, Tomás Pimenta, Marianna Poyares and Jussara Raxlen

The event remarkably embodies a one-sided set of views that is unrepresentative of and insensitive to the complexity of recent Brazilian politics. By presenting the Operação Lava Jato (Car Wash Operation) as paradigmatic of “institutional-building, governance and compliance” in Brazil the event implicitly embraces a narrative that contributed to the ...

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What’s Next for Brazil?

The Crisis of 2016 in Context

November 23, 2016 • by Douglas de Toledo Piza

Public Seminar at The New School for Social Research organized a roundtable discussion with the title What's Next for Brazil? The Crisis of 2016 in Context. Since March of 2016, Brazil has experienced a controversial presidential impeachment process. This political crisis has polarized the nation and elicited scholarly and public debates about the status of Brazil's democracy, its ...

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Borders and the Politics of Mourning

Social Research: An International Quarterly (Summer 2016)

November 11, 2016 • by Douglas de Toledo Piza

The Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility (ZIMM) is honored to host the launch event of “Borders and the Politics of Mourning” a special issue published by Social Research: An International Quarterly (Summer 2016), with a keynote address by Judith Butler. With more than 15,000 migrants dead and disappeared since 2014, ...

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Aeroplanes and Deportation

April 21, 2016 • by Douglas de Toledo Piza

The Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility at The New School presents a lecture by Wiliam Walters entitled “Aeroplanes and Deportation.” There can be no expulsion without the trains, planes, buses and ships that states use to transport deportees across borders and territories. There can be no deportation without an assortment of guards, pilots, doctors, ...

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Detain and Deport: A Transnational Ethnography of U.S. Immigration Enforcement

March 4, 2016 • by Douglas de Toledo Piza

ZIMM Lecture Series 2015-2016 Presents: Nancy Hiemstra: “Detain and Deport: A Transnational Ethnography of U.S. Immigration Enforcement” February 24th, 6pm-8pm, The Bob and Sheila Hoerle Lecture Hall/Hoerle Lecture Hall, UL105, University Center, 63 Fifth Avenue, Lower Level. In many states around the world today, immigration and terrorism are discursively conflated, immigrants are scapegoated as the cause ...

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Borderlands and “Borderman”: Towards a New Cosmopolis

May 14, 2015 • by Douglas de Toledo Piza

Through the study of contemporary migrants' experiences in Africa, Middle-East and Europe, this talk addresses the rising social importance of the "borderman," that is, men and women in the move in precarious condition. Professor Agier describes them as "wanderers," "métèques" and "pariahs," relating their trajectories to their social positions and ...

Borderlands and “Borderman”: Towards a New Cosmopolis

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The Camp as a Space of Political Membership

Video of Nando Sigona’s Lecture

March 6, 2015 • by Douglas de Toledo Piza

The Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility hosted a lecture by Nando Sigona entitled "The Camp as a Space of Political Membership," with discussion from professor Michel Agier on February 17, 2015, in the Klein Conference Room at 66 W. 12th Street. Included is a video of that event.

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