Alexandre Nogueira Martins
International Research Training Group 'Temporalities of Future in Latin America'
Postdoctoral Fellow
Sociology
Project: "Reparative Futures: Democracy and Dignity from Queer and Trans Struggles"
14195 Berlin
Education
|
Since 11/2025 |
Postdoctoral Fellow, International Research Training Group 'Temporalities of Future' |
|
Since 05/2022 |
PhD Candidate, International Research Training Group ‘Temporalities of Future’ |
|
01/2018 – 11/2020 |
Master in Sociology at Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil |
|
02/2014 – 01/2018 |
Bachelor in Social Sciences at Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil |
Work Experience
|
Since 05/2019 |
Researcher, International Research Training Group ‘Temporalities of Future’ |
|
04/2021 – 03/2022 |
Teaching Assistant at Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales, Brasil |
|
01/2021 – 02/2022 |
Research Assistant at “Mapping Criminal Organizations in Brazil” Project, University of British Columbia. |
|
01/2020 – 01/2021 |
Research Assistant at Crime and Punishment Study Center, Fundação Getulio Vargas Law School – São Paulo |
|
07/2019 – 04/2021 |
Professor of Summer School courses at Universidade de São Paulo |
|
03/2018 – 12/2019 |
Teaching Assistant in Sociology courses at Universidade de São Paulo |
Project: "Reparative Futures: Democracy and Dignity from Queer and Trans Struggles"
What can queer and trans struggles teach us about the future of democracy? This project investigates social movements in Latin America as not merely making claims upon democracy but as generative sources for reimagining it. Through their pursuit of a life with dignity, queer and trans movements articulate and enact a vision of radical democracy as a form of ongoing repair. This research develops the concept of "reparative futures" to capture this dual praxis: a critical dismantling of the heteronormative, patriarchal, and colonial violences that persist after formal political transitions, and a prefigurative building of alternative social worlds.
Based on fieldwork in Argentina and Colombia, this study traces how reparative futures are forged along two axes. The first is an engagement with the state, where movements strategically navigate transitional justice mechanisms to demand official accountability, all while exposing the state’s limited capacity to build transformative futures. The second, and more foundational, axis is the grassroots work of "reparations from below." Here, dignity has been materialized through the creation of trans cooperatives, community economies, and symbolic acts that collectively embody non-normative forms of life, care, and kinship. By centering queer and trans praxis, the project advances a vision where the futures of democracy are tied not to a static institutional arrangement but to a lived, reparative process – one that continuously disputes and cultivates the conditions for a dignified life.
Book
Martins, Alexandre Nogueira. (2023). LGBTfobia: uma histórica de criminalizações. Hucitec Editora-ANPOCS.
Articles
Martins, Alexandre Nogueira (2022): A criminologia ‘queer’ e o abolicionismo penal transviado. Dilemas: Revista de Estudos de Conflito e Controle Social, 15: 693-714.
Martins, Alexandre Nogueira; Coelho, Caia Maria (2022): Notes on the (Im)possibilities of an Anti-colonial Queer Abolition of the (Carceral) World. GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, 28, 2: 207–226.
Martins, Alexandre Nogueira (2021): Caminhos da criminalização da LGBTfobia: Racionalidade criminalizante, neoliberalismo e democratização. São Paulo: IBCCRIM. 376p.
Martins, Alexandre Nogueira (2021): Cidadania punitiva desde baixo: a criminalização da LGBTfobia e a democratização neoliberal no Brasil. Cadernos Gestão Pública e Cidadania, 26, 85: 1-18.
Martins, Alexandre Nogueira (2021): Between Citizenship and Prisons: Criminalizing LGBTphobia in Brazil. Journal Research on Humanities and Social Sciences, 11, 11: 79-82.
Santos, Eduardo; Martins, Alexandre; Camargos, Pedro (2020): Entre o Homo Oeconomicus e o Homo Criminalis: Neoliberalismo, Punição e Regimes de Subjetivação. Mediações – Revista de Ciências Sociais, 25: 339-357.
Aragusuku, Henrique; Lara, Maria Fernanda; Fraccaroli, Yuri; Martins, Alexandre (2019): Estado, Políticas Sexuais e Cidadania LGBT no Brasil Pós-Impeachment. Revista Brasileira de Estudos da Homocultura, 2, 4: 5-33.
