Studying Political Assassination: Definitions and Challengings

Thursday, 10 July 2025: 15:30
Location: SJES029 (Faculty of Legal, Economic, and Social Sciences (JES))
Oral Presentation
Angela ALONSO, University of São Paulo, Brazil
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