Alrik Schubotz
International Research Training Group 'Temporalities of Future in Latin America'
PhD Candidate
Political Science
Project: "Contesting Identity Politics in Brazil: Transnational Culture Wars and Political Religion"
14195 Berlin
Education
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Since 05/2019 |
PhD Candidate, International Research Training Group ‘Temporalities of Future’ |
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10/2013 – 06/2016 |
Master of Arts in Latin American Studies, Freie Universität Berlin |
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09/2012 – 09/2013 |
Master of Arts in International Studies, Université Paris 3 Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris |
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08/2010 – 10/2011 |
Exchange Programme, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City |
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10/2008 – 10/2012 |
Bachelor of Arts in Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies, Freie Universität Berlin |
Work Experience
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Since 05/2019 |
Researcher, International Research Training Group ‘Temporalities of Future’ |
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09/2016 – 12/2017 |
Research Assistant, Institut für die Geschichte und Zukunft der Arbeit, Berlin |
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03/2016 – 08/2016 |
Research Assistant, Hamburger Institut für Sozialforschung, Hamburg |
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07/2013 – 12/2015 |
Student Assistant, MISEAL and G-NET projects, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin |
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08/2011 – 10/2011 |
Internship, Secretaría de Educación Pública, Coordinación General de Educación Intercultural y Bilingüe, Mexico City |
Project: "Contesting Identity Politics in Brazil: Transnational Culture Wars and Political Religion"
Supervisor:
Prof. Dr. Marianne Braig, Freie Universität Berlin
When theorizing processes of norm diffusion, constructivist International Relations (IR) scholars have paid little attention to how normative change is resisted and contested, particularly in relation to the globalization of identity politics. Instead, empirical studies centering on compliance display a bias towards “good” global norms and the agentive capacities of Western liberal democracies. This thesis challenges constructivist understandings of norm diffusion by analyzing the contestation of identity politics in Brazil. Based on a genealogical account of moralisitic securitization, I begin by tracing the causal links that determine the prominent position through which identity politics in Brazil have come to feature on an agenda driven by political religion. Proceeding with a focus on the embeddedness of religious politics, I analyze relational configurations at the growing intersection of the political and religious fields that explain the increasing political influence of religious actors at the local, national and transnational level. In order to better explain the complexities and scope of the traditionalist dynamics unfolding in response to identity politics in Brazil, I then triangulate the previous two approaches with theoretical insights IR scholarship has recently gained from the norm contestation framework.
Chapter
Schubotz, Alrik and Zapata Galindo, Marta (2017): "Conflictos armados", in: I. Pastor Gosálbez, L. Román Martín, and M. Zapata Galindo (eds.): Políticas de igualdad de género e integración en Europa y América Latina, Cizur Menor: Thomson Reuters, Aranzadi, pp. 309–337.
Translation
Therborn, Göran (2016): "Klasse Im 21. Jahrhundert'', in: H. Bude and P. Staab (Eds.), Kapitalismus und Ungleichheit: Die Neuen Verwerfungen, translated by Alrik Schubotz, Frankfurt/Main: Campus, pp. 285–315.
