Lucas Veloso is a Social Scientist and PhD candidate in Political Science at the Federal University of Minas Gerais in Brazil.

Lucas's research focuses on political theory, democratic innovations, and socio-political vulnerabilities. Employs a range of qualitative and quantitative and methodologies, including ethnography, grounded theory, discourse analysis, and statistics.

He had the opportunity to contribute to the construction of the 1st Global Citizens' Assembly on Climate Emergency and now assesses this democratic innovation with the Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance in Canberra. Also contributes to the construction of the 1st Brazilian Citizen's Assembly on Genetic Editing.

Co-supervised by Professor Nicole Curato, his dissertation will utilise mixed methods and grounded theory to explore how socio-political vulnerabilities introduced different impacts on the production of Global Assembly democratic goods.

Key papers

VELOSO, L. H. N., & MARQUES, Â. C. S. (2022). Democracia anti-antropocêntrica: Dispositivos de representação, escuta e visibilidade extra-humana. Teoria & Pesquisa: Revista de Ciência Política, 31(2), 65-85.

MARQUES, Â. C. S., & VELOSO, L. H. N. (2022). Habermas, Foucault e a “vulneronormatividade”: interfaces entre a norma e a experiência. Princípios: Revista de Filosofia (UFRN), 29(59), 202-231.

VELOSO, L. H. N.; MARQUES, A. C. S.; PRADO, M. A. M. (2021). Enquadramentos, cenas dissensuais e o aparecer antierárquico: ação política e resistência em Judith Butler e Jacques Rancière. Comunicacao, Midia E Consumo (ONLINE), 2021.

VELOSO, L. H. N.; MARQUES, A. C. S.; MENDONCA, R. F. (2019). Abundância comunicativa, Escassez da política? Desafios à democracia na era do monitoramento. Mediapolis - Revista de Comunicação, Jornalismo e Espaço Público, v. 9, p. 101-118.

Working Papers

VELOSO, L. H. N.. Do arcabouço discursivo à performance corporificada: o conceito de vulnerabilidades em processos de participação democrática. Agenda Política (accepted in 2023).

VELOSO, L. H. N..; CURATO, N.; AZUCENA, M. ROSS, M. Vulnerability is not a checklist: Contingencies of disadvantage in a global deliberative forum. Qualitative Research (accepted in 2023).

MENDONÇA, R.F.; VELOSO, L. H. N..; MAGALHÃES, B.; MOTTA, F. Deliberative Ecologies: A Relational Critique of Deliberative Systems. Presented in ECPR Joint Sessions (2023).

Translations

ASENBAUM, Hans. Anonymity and democracy: Absence as presence in the public sphere. American Political Science Review, v. 112, n. 3, p. 459-472, 2018 (Paper translated to Portuguese for the scientific journal COMPOLÍTICA. Publication for December 2021.)

Honours and Awards

Award: Second best academic work of the VII Brazilian Forum of Political Science – VII FBCP (2022).

Honorable Mention: Best Work of the Social Movements Panel of the VII Brazilian Forum of Political Science – VII FBCP (2022).