Felipe Brandi

Biography
Felipe Brandi holds a PhD in History and Civilisation from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris. He completed his Master’s and undergraduate degrees in Social and Cultural History at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio).
His research focuses on 20th century Intellectual History, with a special interest in a historical and critical approach to contemporary historical thought. His main areas of research are Historiography, Cultural History, and Memory Studies, and his lines of research are Intellectual History, Medieval Representations in the Modern and Contemporary Ages, and Theory of History.
After his PhD, Felipe Brandi was invited by the publisher Gallimard to work as scientific editor for the edition of Œuvres de Georges Dubys at the Bibliothèque de la Pléiade (2019). He is also co-author of the book La Chambre de veille (Flammarion, 2013), with François Hartog and Thomas Hirsh. He was Visiting Professor, in 2020, at the University of São Paulo, at the Rui Barbosa Institute for High Studies in Culture and at the Department of History of PUC-Rio; and in 2022, at the University of São Paulo and at the Fluminense Federal University. His current research is focused on the memorial avatars of the representation of the Three Orders in Europe.
Research fields
- Historiography
- Theory of history
- Intelectual contemporary history
- Cultural history
Selected publications
- Brandi, Felipe (Ed.). Œuvres, de Georges Duby. Paris: Gallimard, 2019. [link]
- Brandi, Felipe, François Hartog & Thomas Hirsch. La Chambre de veille. Paris: Éditions Flammarion, 2013. [link]
- Brandi, Felipe. “L’avènement d’une « histoire au second degré »,” L’Atelier du Centre de recherches historiques 7 (2011). [link]🔓
- Brandi, Felipe. “Connaissance historique et usages politiques du passé. Considérations autour de l’épilogue du Dimanche de Bouvines de Georges Duby,” Les Cahiers du Centre de Recherches Historiques 44 (2009): 135-185. [link]🔓
Main projects
- Individual project “The Three Orders. The Birth and Fate of an Inegalitarian Social Model” — Hosted by the IHC and funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology (2021.01564.CEECIND). 2022-2028
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Research seminar that seeks to expand the field of oil studies beyond established narratives, geographies, and disciplinary boundaries, amplifying perspectives from the Global South and other sites of extraction and
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Research seminar that seeks to expand the field of oil studies beyond established narratives, geographies, and disciplinary boundaries, amplifying perspectives from the Global South and other sites of extraction and resistance.
Mind the Gap III:
Unearthing Petromodernity: Oil Studies in the Anthropocene
Online Research Seminar
The rise of fossil fuels has been central to the political, economic, cultural, and material transformations of the past two centuries, yet the forms of power, knowledge, and life enabled by carbon energy often remain analytically invisible. As we confront the converging crises of the Anthropocene, the need to rethink the centrality of fossil fuels to modern life has never been more urgent.
At a moment when toxic landscapes, resource frontiers, and environmental inequality reveal the uneven geographies of fossil modernity, the humanities and social sciences are reorienting analytical attention toward the energetic foundations of modern life. From pipelines and refineries to plastics and everyday petrochemical products, the material properties of oil have fundamentally shaped modern infrastructures and forms of life. What forms of political and social power are created through fossil fuel industries? How have fossil fuels shaped modern societies, their economic models, governmental regimes, everyday lives? How have they contributed to uneven global geographies rooted in colonialism and capitalism? What kinds of transitions to post-carbon futures are possible?
Bringing together approaches from history, anthropology, political ecology, and geography, we seek to expand the field of oil studies beyond established narratives, geographies, and disciplinary boundaries, amplifying perspectives from the Global South and other sites of extraction and resistance.
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Programme:
Every fortnight we will meet online to discuss an article or book chapter circulated in advance. The sessions will start with a 20–30 minute presentation, followed by discussion. The sessions will take place on Mondays at 2PM.
We will explore key concepts such as petro-culture, carbon democracy, extractivism, fossil capital, energy regimes, and transition imaginaries, examining how energy dependence shapes modern subjectivities, infrastructures, economies, and ecological futures. The texts will be shared with participants in advance.
Everyone is welcome.
To register, please fill out the online form. After registering you will receive the readings and access information ahead of each session.
For more information, please write to unearthingpetromodernity@proton.me.
30 March | Timothy Mitchell, Carbon Democracy: Political Power in the Age of Oil. Selected chapter TBA (Verso, 2011)
Davide Scarso (CIUHCT — FCT NOVA)
Focus: How fossil fuels structured democratic politics, labour power and modern governance
13 April | Adam Hanieh, “Petrochemical Empire: The Geo-Politics of Fossil-Fuelled Production“ New Left Review (139)
Ricardo Noronha (IHC — NOVA FCSH / IN2PAST)
Focus: Global production networks, the Gulf region and the restructuring of capitalism through petrochemicals
27 April | Carola Hein (ed.), Oil Spaces: Exploring the Global Petroleumscape. Chapter 8: Peyerl, D. “Building Brazil’s Petroleumscape on Land and Sea: Infrastructure, Expertise, and Technology” (Routledge, 2022)
Henrique Oliveira (IHC — NOVA FCSH / IN2PAST)
Focus: Infrastructure, territorial development and the spatial materiality of oil
11 May | Stephanie LeMenager, Living Oil: Petroleum Culture in the American Century. Selected chapter TBA (Oxford University Pres, 2014)
Raquel Ribeiro (CHAM — NOVA FCSH)
Focus: Oil, media, culture, and everyday life in twentieth-century society
25 May | Appel, Mason & Watts (Eds.), Subterranean Estates: Life Worlds of Oil and Gas. Introduction: “Oil Talk” (Cornell University Press, 2015)
Amedeo Policante (IHC — NOVA FCSH / IN2PAST)
Focus: Anthropological and political-economic perspectives on oil extraction and everyday life
8 June | Alice Mah, Petrochemical Planet: Multiscalar Battles of Industrial Transformation. Chapter 2: “Enduring Toxic Injustice and Fenceline Mobilizations” (Duke University Press, 2023)
João Pedro Santos (IHC — NOVA FCSH / IN2PAST)
Focus: Environmental justice, pollution, and grassroots activism around petrochemical industries
22 June | Chelsea Schields, Offshore Attachments: Oil and Intimacy in the Caribbean. Introduction and Chapter 1. “Crude Bargains” (University of California Press, 2023)
Anita Buhin (IHC — NOVA FCSH / IN2PAST)
Focus: Oil economies, intimacy, and social relations in offshore extraction zones
6 July | Tim Di Muzio & Matt Dow, “Global capitalism and oil“ in Handbook on Oil and International Relations (Edward Elgar Publishing , 2022)
Davide Scarso (CIUHCT — FCT NOVA), Amedeo Policante & Ricardo Noronha (IHC — NOVA FCSH / IN2PAST)
Focus: Oil in international relations, financialization and the structure of global capitalism
Organisation:
Davide Scarso (CIUHCT — FCT NOVA)
Amedeo Policante (IHC — NOVA FCSH / IN2PAST)
Ricardo Noronha (IHC — NOVA FCSH / IN2PAST)
Tempo
(Segunda-feira) 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Localização
Link to be provided to registered participants
Zoom
Organizador
Institute of Contemporary History — NOVA School of Social Sciences and Humanities and Interuniversity Center for the History of Science and Technology
News
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Apr 1, 2026
Members of the FILMASPORA project team were in Praia for the Project’s First Workshop on Radical Creative Writing
‘Double Void’ exhibition opens in Lisbon
Mar 23, 2026
Opened at the Space Zero gallery
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