Thomas Zicman De Barros
Thomás Zicman de Barros is an associate doctor at CEVIPOF, Sciences Po Paris, and a post-doctoral researcher at the Centre for Ethics, Politics and Society (CEPS), University of Minho.
He is currently developing his research activity on the articulation of subaltern, queer and populist studies in a historical perspective, focusing on Latin America.
He has taught democratic theory at various universities and has published on populism, political identities and the interdisciplinary dialogue between political theory and psychoanalysis in journals such as Representation, Constellations, Journal of Political Ideologies, Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society, and Nouvelles perspectives en sciences sociales.
With Miguel Lago, he co-authored, in Portuguese, Do que falamos quando falamos de populismo [What we talk about when we talk about populism] (Companhia das Letras, 2022), a book that deals with historical and contemporary populism through an analysis of the incorporation of marginalised subjects into politics.
He is a regular contributor to the media on subjects such as populism and Latin American and French politics.
Research Fields
populism , Latin American and French politics
