Studying Political Assassination: Definitions and Challengings
Studying Political Assassination: Definitions and Challengings
Thursday, 10 July 2025: 15:30
Location: SJES029 (Faculty of Legal, Economic, and Social Sciences (JES))
Oral Presentation
this presentation will discuss the sociological literature on political conflict that ended up in lethal political violence, based on a on-going research on political assassinations in Brazil (2003-2033). Two dimensions will be addressed: 1) the definitions of “political assassination” in use in the sociological literature; 2) the methodologies researchers have been used to capture empirically the phenomena