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Alexander von Humboldt Fellow Researches Land Grabbing
Image: Prof. Guilherme Leite GonçalvesGonçalves' research project highlights the relationship between law and the development of capitalism. His research interest thus lies at the intersection of law and sociology. He is concerned with the social theory of law as well as theories of capitalism and social inequality. The results of Prof. Gonçalves' research should reveal, among other things, how in the current economic-ecological double crisis of capitalist accumulation, moments of violence through land grabbing formed a basic structure that was cloaked by law, Buckel said. While at the University of Kassel from Dec. 1, 2018, to Feb. 28, 2019, the scholar has set his sights on finishing an ongoing book project.
Guilherme Leite Gonçalves (41) has been a professor of sociology of law at the State University of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil since 2015. He received his PhD from the Università del Salento in Italy. Prior to his stay at the University of Kassel, Gonçalves had already been a visiting professor as well as on research stays in Frankfurt, Bremen and Berlin. In 2016 and 2017, he was a senior fellow at the Kolleg Postgrowth Societies at Friedrich Schiller University in Jena.
Contact:
Prof. Dr. Sonja Buckel
University of Kassel
Department of Political Theory
Tel.: +49 561 804-2770
E-mail: sonja.buckel[at]uni-kassel[dot]de
Sebastian Mense
University of Kassel
Communication, Press and Public Relations
Tel.: +49 5061 804-1961
E-mail: presse[at]uni-kassel[dot]de
Internet: www.uni-kassel.de