LABRICS — BRICS Laboratory for Global Policy and Governance

This research line at BPC examines the BRICS as a space for contestation, negotiation, and the construction of meanings regarding the transforming international order, drawing on a variety of critical perspectives — decolonial, postcolonial, Gramscian, critical geography, and other critical traditions within International Relations and international political economy. It draws on the BRICS’ demands for greater justice in the global order — in development, financing, representation, and sovereignty — to examine how these translate into concrete negotiations, institutional arrangements, instruments of cooperation, and political and financial practices. It devotes specific attention to the disputes between hegemonic models and alternative development proposals, including agendas for industrialization, productive cooperation, financing, and energy transition. It treats the Global South as a contested analytical and political category and analyzes BRICS’s relations with other international groupings, coalitions, and forums. It also examines how different conceptions of redistributive justice and epistemic justice are formulated and mobilized in these spaces. The research line adopts a transnational and multiscalar approach, with a focus on the Brazilian case, to identify limits, ambiguities, and possibilities in the current processes of reconfiguring the global order and development.

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