Surveillance, geopolitics and international politics

Abstract

It is with great pleasure that we continue our work and present to the reader another publication from Revista Aurora. In this volume, we present the works a) “The new Gazeta Renana: the revolutions of 1848 and the loss of political illusions”, by Henrique Coelho (UFMG), which discusses the thesis of political ontonegativity present in the work of Karl Marx; b) “International politics understood as the politics of power: theoretical principles of political realism”, by Luiz Sperancete (UNESP), which reviews the arguments of the main authors of modern political realism; c) “Critical geopolitics. The Shanghai cooperation organization and the Sino-Kazakh water agreements: cooperation and stagnation”, by Lucas Gualberto do Nascimento (UNESP), which takes stock of Chinese influence under the key of international cooperation; d) “Data, surveillance and the private sector in the development of contact tracing tools during the covid-19 pandemic”, by Murilo Motta (San Tiago Dantas), which discusses the use of surveillance and tracking tools and their operationalization during the pandemic; and e) “From the vaccine revolt to the people without a vaccine against Covid-19: reflections on the pandemic, race and social exclusion”, by Alexandre Braga (UFMG) and Vitória Izaú (UEMG), who present a reflection on the impacts of the pandemic in the most excluded strata of our society. Finally, we have the review by José Paniago (UNESP), with an analysis of Gabriel Feltran's book, “Irmãos: Uma História do PCC”. São Paulo: Companhia das Letras, 2018.