Residency period: March 4th to December 31st, 2024
Department of Psychology – Faculty of Philosophy and Human Sciences at UFMG
Marco Aurélio Máximo Prado has a PhD in Social Psychology from Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo with post-doctoral experience in the Chair of Brazilian Studies at the University of Massachusetts/Amherst by the Fulbright Foundation. He is associate professor IV at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG). He is a professor at the Postgraduate Program in Psychology and coordinator of the Center for Human Rights and LGBT + Citizenship (NUH / UFMG). He was Coordinator of the Postgraduate Program in Psychology (2009-2010) at UFMG and Head of the Psychology Department at Fafich (2005-2007). He was secretary of the Brazilian Society of Political Psychology, being one of the Editors of the Revista Psicologia Política (2001-2007) and was also President of the Brazilian Association of Political Psychology (2009-2011). He was executive secretary of the National Association for Research and Postgraduate Studies in Psychology (2010-2012) and elected secretary to the Board of Directors of the National Association for Research and Postgraduate Studies in Psychology (ANPEPP) for the 2018/2020 biennium. He was President of ANPEPP (2021/2022). He was one of the editors of the Revista Psicologia Sociedade of the Brazilian Association of Social Psychology (2012-2013) and is the current deputy editor of the Revista Psicologia Política (2020-2022). CNPq PQ 1D scholarship holder with international internships as a researcher at the City University of New York (1997-1998); at the Center for Social Studies (CES) at the University of Coimbra (2004-2005 under the Afro-Portuguese-Brazilian studies award; at the National University of San Luis in Argentina as a guest professor and at the University of Massachusetts/Fulbright Foundation in the Chair of Brazilian Studies (2015) at the Center for Latin American, Caribbean, Latino Studies. Member of the Human Rights Commission of the Federal Psychology Council in the period 2014/2015. Participated as a member of the Psychology and Interdisciplinary Area Committees of Capes in the Humanities committee. Participated in the Collegiate Management of Fchssalla (2020/2022), Consultant for the Fulbright Foundation and works mainly on the following topics: psychology social, collective actions, prejudice, gender, collective identities, public policies and social participation, LGBT+ studies, sexualities, democracies and contemporary ultraconservatisms.
POLICIES AGAINST GENDER AND THE PROCESSES OF (DES)DEMOCRATIZATION IN BRAZIL
The project involves a set of academic research, teaching and extension activities based on the systematic study of the organization of the anti-gender offensive and its transdisciplinary and transnational character in the present time as a tensional phenomenon of erosion of democracies and production of autocracies within institutions and society itself. In this sense, the project proposes an analytical systematization of partially collected data that will be systematized, analyzed and reflected during the residency. Its consequence is not only the understanding of the centrality of gender in the processes of dedemocratization, the production of ultra-conservative and neoliberal public policies and the dimensions of the processes of political subjectivation, but also the creation of a database of official documents from Brazilian institutions produced in the under the government of Jair Messias Bolsonaro, installed as a permanent offensive in the Brazilian State itself.