Workshop

Punitive populism: mano dura as public policy

Elena Martínez Barahona (Universidade de Salamanca)

March 31, 2023, 17h00

Room 1, CES | Alta

Comments: Haydée Caruso, XMEN Project Consultant and Professor at the University of Brasília

About

In this workshop, Elena Martínez Barahona aims to analyse the concept of punitive populism and its different uses from a comparative perspective. By analysing different case studies, all over the world, the intention is to note its transversal strategy across different ideologies, being most common to all the agendas of the new far-right parties.

Bio note

Elena Martínez Barahona holds a degree in Law and Political Science from the University of Salamanca and a PhD in Political Science from the European University Institute (Florence). Since 2007 she has been a professor in the Department of Political Science and a researcher at the Ibero-American Institute of the University of Salamanca. She is the author of several chapters and articles in specialised journals on justice in Latin America and a member of international networks on transitional justice and citizen security. Her research interests focus on comparative and Latin American politics, especially on judicial institutions and policies, transitional justice, human rights and issues of citizen security and violence.


Activity within the proejcts X-MEN | Masculinidades, Empatia, Não-violência (Funded by the European Commission)