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Imagem meramente ilustrativa da publicação dos Anais do VI Congresso Internacional Constitucionalismo e Democracia, publicado pela Faculdade Nacional de Direito e CONPEDI.


To be or not to be, that is the question – “Being a woman” and the necessary overcoming of biological determinism for the correct understanding of femicide as a criminal type

VI International Congress on Constitutionalism and Democracy: the new Latin American constitutionalism - 2016
Gabriel Senra, Laira Rachid, and Eduardo F. de Oliveira Junior.

Law 13.104/2015 defines femicide as qualified homicide and a heinous crime, consisting of affirmative action in opposition to gender-based violence against women, since for its configuration it is essential that it has been practiced due to the victim's female gender condition. This study, based on Queer Theory, seeks to elucidate the concept of “woman,” differentiating sex and gender identity, to advocate for the application of that law to all individuals of the female gender, regardless of their biological sex. Therefore, it will be argued that the concept of femicide should encompass transgender victims who present as female, whether or not they have undergone sex reassignment surgery or changed their name and gender in their civil registry. This is not an extensive interpretation or analogy in malam partem, but the elucidation of the
true scope of “being a woman” as a gender identity and the realization of substantial equality among those who have chosen and experience the female gender.

Imagem ilustrativa da capa da Revista Direitos Humanos e Democracia, da UNIJUÍ.


Cyberdemocracy: The internet as a digital agora.

Human Rights and Democracy Journal - 2018
Deo Campos Dutra and Eduardo F. de Oliveira Junior

The advent of the digital age has changed the structure of social and political relations in human society, enabling the immediate dissemination of ideas and paths to be taken regarding life in society. Instant communication, which has weakened governments and has the power to bring together individuals with similar interests, also reveals itself as a potential tool for the expansion of the modern democratic system, where citizens enjoy active means of participation in a comprehensive democracy, influencing relevant legislative or executive themes, not as political spectators, whose participation occurs in predefined cycles, but with constant engagement, as they have the tools to do so. The form of government where we find a potential enhancement of the direct collaboration of the population with the direction of their country and the new faces of democracy are the scope of this study.

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Imagem ilustrativa da capa da Revista Doctum Multidisciplinar.


From the 'pooch' complex to raw multiculturalism

Doctum Scientific Journal: Multidisciplinary - 2019
Eduardo F. de Oliveira Junior

The study seeks to understand the feeling of inferiority present in a large part of the Brazilian population, the famous 'vira-lata complex' described,
initially by the playwright Nelson Rodrigues, which has its fertile roots in the cultural process of nation formation, since there was no effort to create a country with its own identity, but rather the exploitation of the new land, where only the culture brought by the explorers was valued, ignoring any native cultural traits, as well as the cultural traits brought by enslaved peoples.

Imagem ilustrativa da capa do livro "Sujeitas Sujeitadas", publicado pela editora InitiaVia.


Decriminalization of abortion in Latin America: sexual and reproductive rights and international law

Subjected Subjects: Proceedings of the III Congress on Sexual and Gender Diversity, volume 2 - 2019
Eduardo F. de Oliveira Junior and Raquel Pinto Coelho Perrota

Chapter published in the book resulting fromIII Congress on Sexual and Gender Diversity,organized by the Graduate Programs in Law and Education at the Federal University of Ouro Preto and the Law School of the Federal University of Minas Gerais. The article addresses the human, sexual, and reproductive rights of women in the Latin American context, from a legal and decolonial perspective, contributing to the debate on the decriminalization of abortion and sexual and gender rights.

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Imagem ilustrativa da capa da Revista Direitos Fundamentais e Justiça, da PUC-RS.


The Anthropophagic Multiculturalism as a Decolonial Proposition

Brazilian Journal of Fundamental Rights & Justice - 2020
Deo Campos Dutra and Eduardo F. de Oliveira Junior

The growing global demand for the recognition of cultural identities, subjugated over centuries of imperialism, orientalism, and colonialism, implies the broadening of the spectrum and the issues of multicultural studies. Long before, however, such theories, the modernist poet Oswald de Andrade proposed, looking at the anthropophagic habits of Brazilian indigenous peoples, anthropophagy as a latent possibility for constructing a new identity and social structure, chewing up foreign elements without succumbing to their characteristics when they arrived here. Considering that anthropophagy, in this sense, begins to inhabit a virtual decolonial nature, propositions for its application are sought in order to bring democratic representation and the legal institutions themselves closer to the marginalized reality in the south.

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Imagem ilustrativa da capa da Revista Brasileira de Políticas Públicas da CEUB.


Rethinking democracy: The hypothesis of revised random democracy

Brazilian Journal of Public Policies CEUB - 2022
Deo Campos Dutra and Eduardo F. de Oliveira Junior

The article aims to outline a preliminary overview of the current state of the art of democracy, its representative molds and structures, as well as modern obstacles, such as the influence and manipulation of the media and the entire semiotic field – keeping in mind the rise of fake news; the conversion of individuals into spectators and consumers, instead of citizens, who choose representatives in the eagerness not to decide. Furthermore, the contemporary influence of neoliberalism and neocolonialism as political forces modifying the forms of democracy and subjectivity. In this scenario, the study attempts to verify whether the archaic model of random democracy could resolve some of these obstacles, expanding democratic possibilities. This is an initial research, based on the phenomenological method, using bibliographic and documentary analysis, with an exploratory objective.

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Imagem ilustrativa da capa do livro "Stalking: Responsabilidade Civil, Responsabilidade Penal e Direito Comparado", publicado pela Editora Almedina.


Behavior and regulations on Stalking and Cyberstalking: A cultural and contextual legal-comparative interpretative analysis between Thailand and Brazil.

Collection of the Catholic University of Brasilia by Almedina. Stalking: Civil Liability, Criminal Liability, and Comparative Law. Armindo Madoz Robinson; Gustavo Menon. (Eds.) - 2024
Deo Campos Dutra and Eduardo F. de Oliveira Junior

The study outlines an analysis of persecution, stalking, and cyberstalking, considering the context of the Global South, subject to processes of formal or identity and cultural colonization, focusing on the comparison between Thailand and Brazil, aiming to interpret the local cultures that feed back into the practices of persecution and the search for understanding the phenomenon in distinct territories, as well as the universalist influences on local legislations. To this end, it employs the method of cultural interpretation combined with a legal-contextual comparative approach, qualitatively, with bibliographic and documentary analysis. The assessment reveals the cultural colonial legacy in the culture of persecution, the stimulation of pre-colonial identity traits, and the transfer and/or inspiration, often through impositions, of Western legislative techniques and models from Europe and the United States.

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Imagem ilustrativa da capa da Revista Lugar Comum, da UFRJ, Rede Universidade Nômade e Moitará.


Branding audiovisual soft power as an economic vector for cultural (re)creation in BRICS countries

Lugar Comum Journal - Media, Culture, and Democracy Studies from UFRJ - 2023
Aaron W. Tang and Eduardo F. de Oliveira Junior

The article provides a condensed analysis of the notion of soft power, international relations, and its critiques, with an emphasis on the notion of imperialism and cultural neocolonialism, proposing other methods of reading and applying soft power, illustrating the dominant audiovisual industry and its branding, from Hollywood to K-Pop, economically converted into the manufacturing of a brand image. It also examines the existing audiovisual sector in the BRICS, envisioning the use of soft power as a tool for identity preservation and economic development, with the aid of branding, redefined, proposing that the cultural influence exerted be converted into an economic factor. Adopting a phenomenological method and a decolonial stance, the study concludes on the viability of using audiovisual branding as an instrument of soft power for the development of the economic, cultural, and identity reconstruction chain.

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