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Desde o fim da Guerra Fria, as teorias liberais das Relações Internacionais e os discursos das Nações Unidas vêm evocando a autoridade de Immanuel Kant e o seu famoso tratado A paz perpétua para avançar a ideia acerca da conexão entre a paz e as democracias liberais. O artigo visa oferecer uma leitura alternativa de Kant, vis-à-vis a literatura mainstream das Relações Internacionais, chamando a atenção para os limites e ambiguidades do suposto cosmopolitismo kantiano ao resgatar os rastros racistas e excludentes da sua filosofia.

O artigo argumenta que a disciplina das Relações Internacionais é cúmplice do projeto colonial e, nesse sentido, vem participando do processo histórico de epistemicídio. Tanto perspectivas realistas como liberais das Relações Internacionais reificam uma “história única”, embora narrada como universal. A partir dos mitos mobilizados pela disciplina a exemplo do “estado de natureza” e do “contrato social” pretende-se iluminar sua trajetória eurocêntrica, chamando a atenção para as violências e exclusões constitutivas da mesma. O artigo, inspirado em perspectivas decoloniais, conclui enfatizando a importância da abertura da disciplina para outros saberes e cosmologias tradicionalmente silenciados e inferiorizados que podem vir a contribuir para desestabilizar suas fundações racistas.

Adopting a postcolonial perspective, this article approaches Brazilian South-South cooperation 'narratives' in Africa as part of a politics of identity that helps redefine Brazil's place in the modern world. The article discusses how South-South cooperation operates as a site of knowledge and power through which a developmentalist Brazilian identity is reproduced and subalternity can be constantly renegotiated. Through a brief analysis of the narratives of Brazilian involvement in Angola, it emphasizes how the production of the state self is also permeated by several ambivalences that update colonial tropes and bring new forms of subjugation. If, on the one hand, the movement undertaken in the article permits discussing the very ambiguity of the postcolonial conditionmainly by exposing the tensions and indeterminacies that permeate Brazil's engagements in the global arena -on the other hand, it opens up new theoretical avenues for analyzing Brazilian foreign policy.

Reimagining Gender: Artistic Interventions in the Field of MasculinitiesIn this paper we situate the discussion on gender and masculinities in the context of their hierarchical qualifications and disqualifications of our humanness. Taking as a point of departure the structural and structuring violence that marks postcolonies, such as Brazil, we question the dynamics of racial-gendered violence that reproduce the imbricated norms, standards and pacts of hegemonic masculinities. In this way, we propose a dialogue with peripherized artistic-cultural practices that reshape how we incorporate such idealizations of gender. To this end, we focus on the production of the performance Na Manha -developed within the scope of the artistic residency of the GlobalGRACE (Global Gender and Cultures of Equality) research-action project, with the Dance Company Passinho Carioca and under the direction of the dance collective Mulheres ao Vento (Women in the Wind) in Rio de Janeiro.

This article analyses the political status of mothers whose children have been killed by members of the Brazilian military police and armed forces in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro in the course of the 'war against drugs' . These mothers bear witness to the reality of state interference in the lives of their families. The loss of a child interrupts their intimate affective bonds and temporal linkages between the past, present and future, thereby requiring a resignification of the meaning and temporality of their lives. The war waged by the state and the mothers' struggle for justice gives rise to a social dynamic that positions these mothers in a reordering of space and a redefinition of time, creating a spatio-temporal existence of pain, despair and hope.

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