Edson Luis de Almeida Teles

He teaches political philosophy in the undergraduate and postgraduate philosophy programmes at the Federal University of São Paulo (Unifesp), where he coordinates the Centre for Philosophy and Politics (Unifesp/CNPq) and is the coordenator of the Centre for Forensic Anthropology and Archaeology (CAAF/Unifesp). He is a visiting professor at the University of Basel (Switzerland; 2024/2025). He completed his undergraduate (1999), master's (2002) and doctoral (2007) degrees at the University of São Paulo (USP), with a doctoral internship abroad at the Université de Paris 8 (2006). He is the Unifesp representative in the project "Analysis and Identification of Bones Remains from the Perus Clandestine Ditch". He is an activist in the Commission of Relatives of the Dead and Disappeared Politicians of the Dictatorship. Her conceptual tools come from Michel Foucault, Beatriz Nascimento, Achille Mbembe and Hannah Arendt. Her main research topics are: state violence, social struggles and movements, dictatorship, democracy, state of exception, militarisation, memory, regimes of subjectivation, production of the enemy. He has a research productivity grant from the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq). E-mail: edson.teles@unifesp.br. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)