Call for the Dossier Resistances, Protagonisms, and Subordinations in the Agenda of Global Events
Call for the Dossier Resistances, Protagonisms, and Subordinations in the Agenda of Global Events
Organizers: Olga Lúcia Castreghini de Freitas (UFPR/UFPA); José Júlio Ferreira Lima (UFPA); Margarida Queirós (University of Lisbon)
Submission deadline: May 31, 2026
Publication date: Vol. 29, 2027
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COP30 — the United Nations Conference of the Parties on climate change, held in Belém, in the state of Pará in November 2025 — has reignited a range of debates surrounding themes that have long permeated Brazilian reality, particularly in its urban and regional dimensions. These include Brazil’s renewed protagonism in environmental discussions, which had been weakened over previous years; issues related to the Amazon and its role in global climate regulation and in financing strategies aimed at forest conservation; and the processes involved in preparing Belém as the host city for the event.
Revisiting these themes revives debates on the transformative potential of mega-events in urban contexts, while also calling for critical reflection and analysis of how such global events trigger processes of resistance, protagonism, and subordination to established logics grounded in intentionalities that, in most cases, remain only weakly connected with local realities.
The proposed theme for this special issue — Resistance, Protagonism, and Subordination in the Global Events Agenda — invites researchers to engage in critical analyses, revisit existing studies, and explore future perspectives through empirical and/or theoretical–critical contributions. These may address agenda disputes, institutional arrangements, financial flows, and regulatory regimes; distributive, territorial, and socio-environmental effects (including carbon footprints); forms of resistance and counter-diplomacy associated with global events; as well as the repercussions, resistances, and mobilizations emerging in the post-COP30 period that may (or may not) subvert the prevailing logics of climate diplomacy and soft power.
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Dossiê Temático: Território, Gênero e Interseccionalidades





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