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Academic contributions and general writing

Journal articles, dossiers, reports, general articles and other contributions beyond book-length publications. For books, edited volumes and book chapters, see the Books page.

Academic Contributions

Peer-Reviewed and Academic Work

Contributions to Academic Journals

Fernandes, Sabrina. Entretien réalisé par Löwy, M. (2024). Les luttes socio-écologiques en Amérique latine. Actuel Marx, n° 76(2), 89–96.
Fernandes, Sabrina. (2024). "Just" Means "Just" Everywhere: How Extractivism Stands in the Way of an Internationalist Paradigm for Just Transitions. International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society, 1–19.
Huberman, Bruno and Sabrina Fernandes. (2023). Descolonizar futuros palestinos: o papel da comunidade internacional para a resolução justa da Questão Palestina/Israel. Revista Marx e o Marxismo, v.11, n.21, 15–34.
Lowy, Michael, Bengi Akbulut, Sabrina Fernandes, and Giorgos Kallis. (2022). For an Ecosocialist Degrowth. Monthly Review 73, no. 11: 56–58.
— Löwy, M., Kallis, G., Fernandes, S. and Akbulut, B. Por un decrecimiento ecosocialista. Mientras tanto, 20 (2022).
— Akbulut, B., Fernandes, S., Löwy, M. and Kallis, G. Pour une décroissance écosocialiste. EcoRev' 52(1), 2022: 235–238.
Fernandes, Sabrina. (2021). Ecological Imperialism and Jair Bolsonaro's Agenda in Brazil. New Politics 18, no. 3.
Fernandes, Sabrina. (2020). Ecosocialism from the Margins. NACLA Report on the Americas 52, no. 2: 137–143.
Grigera, Juan, Jeffery R. Webber, Ludmila Abilio, Ricardo Antunes, Marcelo Badaró Mattos, Sabrina Fernandes, Rodrigo Nunes, Leda Paulani, and Sean Purdy. (2019). The long Brazilian Crisis: a forum. Historical Materialism 27, no. 2: 59–121.
Fernandes, Sabrina. (2016). Pedagogia crítica como práxis marxista humanista: perspectivas sobre solidariedade, opressão e revolução. Educação & Sociedade (Impresso), v. 37, 481–496.
Fernandes, Sabrina. (2015). Neoliberalization of education in Brazil: the impact of cursinhos and the private sector on pedagogical practices and access to university. Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, v. 40, 351–367.
Klein, Stefan and Sabrina Fernandes. (2014). Reflexões Críticas acerca do Processo de Bolonha à luz das contribuições de Herbert Marcuse e Paulo Freire. Constelaciones: Revista de Teoria Crítica, v. 6, 144.
Fernandes, Sabrina. (2013). The World Bank's position on early child education in Brazil: a critical assessment of contributions and shortcomings. Journal of Education Policy, v. 29, 1–17.
Fernandes, Sabrina. (2012). Dilma Rousseff and the challenge of fighting patriarchy through political representation in Brazil. Journal of International Women's Studies, v. 13, 1.

Contributions to Dossiers, Reports and Working Paper Series

Fernandes, Sabrina. (2026). Towards a concept of ecological sovereignty. Alameda Institute.
Fernandes, Sabrina. (2025). To decarbonise is not enough. Energy Transitions: Just and Beyond (Dossier). Alameda Institute.
Fernandes, Sabrina. (2024). Food for Internationalist Thought. Seeds of sovereignty: contesting the politics of food (Dossier). Alameda Institute and Rosa Luxemburg Foundation.

Edited Special Issues

Special Issue "Green Capitalism in the Americas" (2025). NACLA Report on the Americas. Co-editor with Breno Bringel.
Energy Transitions: Just and Beyond (Dossier, 2025). Alameda Institute. Co-editor with Benjamin Fogel.
Fernandes, Sabrina. (2026). Os vários negacionismos da policrise planetária: incertezas e visões de túnel. Entre IdEAs, Volume 2, no. 1. Unicamp.
Fernandes, Sabrina. (2025). The Green Colonial Shades of International Cooperation. In Green at Home, Harm Abroad: Germany's Role in Global Resource Exploitation (Report). Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung.

Book Reviews

Fernandes, Sabrina. (2018). Book Review: Brazil and Canada: Economic, Political, and Migratory Ties, 1820s to 1970s by Rosana Barbosa. Canadian Historical Review, v. 99, 328–329.
Fernandes, Sabrina. (2013). Book Review: Broke But Unbroken: Grassroots Social Movements and their solutions to poverty. Alternate Routes, v. 24, 1.

Translations

Aliança pelo Marxismo e a Libertação Animal. XVIII Teses sobre marxismo e libertação animal. Revisão de tradução de Sabrina Fernandes e Maila Costa. Revista Latinoamericana de Estudios Críticos Animales, 2019.
Dunker, Christian. Hegel Amerindian: For a non-Identitarian Concept of Identification in Psychoanalysis. Tradução de Sabrina Fernandes. Crisis and Critique, 2017.

General Publications

Journalism, Columns and Public Writing

Online Articles and Contributions

Fernandes, Sabrina. (2026). Sob pretexto falso de revitalização, capitais expulsam os mais pobres do centro. The Intercept Brasil.
Fernandes, Sabrina. (2026). Envolvimento da família Bolsonaro com Vorcaro escancara a engrenagem da corrupção no Brasil. The Intercept Brasil.
Fernandes, Sabrina. (2026). Quando a falta de energia é projeto de poder. The Intercept Brasil.
Fernandes, Sabrina. (2026). Criminosos de guerra de Israel estão circulando livremente entre nós? The Intercept Brasil.
Fernandes, Sabrina. (2026). As mentiras por trás do discurso de desenvolvimento de empresários e políticos. The Intercept Brasil.
Fernandes, Sabrina. (2026). A doutrina Trump e a ameaça à paz no Brasil: Por que a invasão da Venezuela é um alerta para 2026. The Intercept Brasil.
Fernandes, Sabrina. (2025). A ideologia está ganhando da ciência na briga para acabar com combustíveis fósseis. The Intercept Brasil.
Fernandes, Sabrina. (2025). COP30: Brasil deve juntar financiamento climático e taxação dos super-ricos. The Intercept Brasil.
Fernandes, Sabrina. (2025). Lula's Dilemma. The Break Down.
Fernandes, Sabrina. (2025). As crescentes zonas de sacrifício na América Latina. Revista Rosa.
Fernandes, Sabrina. (2025). El limitado ecologismo de Lula. Corriente Cálida.
Fernandes, Sabrina. (2024). Para salvar Gaza e o planeta, precisamos mudar o petróleo e o agro. The Intercept Brasil.
Fernandes, Sabrina. (2024). Brazil Is Burning and Agribusiness Must Be Held Liable. NACLA.
Fernandes, Sabrina. (2024). Para combater as queimadas, Brasil precisa se libertar do agro. The Intercept Brasil.
Fernandes, Sabrina. (2024). Solidariedade é essencial mas a crise climática exige ações enérgicas do estado. The Intercept Brasil.
Huberman, Bruno and Sabrina Fernandes. (2024). Palestine expected more from Latin America. Novara Media.
Huberman, Bruno and Sabrina Fernandes. (2023). Israel não vai cumprir acordos nem descolonizar a si mesmo – o mundo precisa agir. The Intercept Brasil.
Huberman, Bruno and Sabrina Fernandes. (2023). Israel doesn't care about your resolutions. Africa is a Country.
Fernandes, Sabrina. (2023). Countries' Paltry Climate Pledges Will Let the International Working Class Burn. Truthout.
Fernandes, Sabrina. (2023). Transição Justa. Revista Jatobá.
Fernandes, Sabrina. (2023). Popular Organizing is the Only Way to Stop Bolsonarismo. NACLA.
Fernandes, Sabrina. (2022). An Ecosocialist Strategy to Win the Future. Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung.
— Hacia el siglo veintidós. Jacobin América Latina, 2022.
— Rumo ao Século 22. Jacobin Brasil, 2022.
Fernandes, Sabrina. (2022). Lula can set the bar higher for a new presidency. Africa is a Country.
Fernandes, Sabrina and Loren Balhorn. (2022). Will Lula Get a Second Chance? Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung.
— ¿Otra oportunidad para Lula? Jacobin América Latina, 2022.
Fernandes, Sabrina. (2022). Electric Cars Won't Save Us. Jacobin Magazine.
— Os carros elétricos não vão nos salvar. Jacobin Brasil, 2022.
Fernandes, Sabrina, A. Pagliarini, and D. Denvir. (2022). Lula Can Win This Year's Presidential Election in Brazil. Jacobin Magazine.
— Lula va a volver, la cuestión es cómo. Jacobin América Latina, 2022.
Fernandes, Sabrina. (2022). Lula's Road Back to the Presidency Will Be a Bumpy One. Jacobin Magazine.
— El regreso de Lula será una carrera con obstáculos. Jacobin América Latina, 2022.
Fernandes, Sabrina. (2022). Less is more? Degrowth as a change in direction. Monitor, vol. 29, no. 2.
Fernandes, Sabrina and U. Brand. (2022). Una solución antimperialista a la crisis ecológica. Jacobin América Latina.
Fernandes, Sabrina and C. Horn. (2021). Brazil's Far-Right Government Is Using COP26 to Greenwash Its Image. Jacobin Magazine.
— As falsas soluções do governo Bolsonaro na COP26. Jacobin Brasil, 2021.
Fernandes, Sabrina. (2021). Florestan Fernandes: explaining authoritarianism beyond the fascist experience. IRGAC.
Fernandes, Sabrina. (2021). Bolsonaro Is Criminalizing the Brazilian Left. Jacobin Magazine.
Fernandes, Sabrina. (2021). La catástrofe ecológica inminente (y los medios para combatirla). Jacobin América Latina.
Fernandes, Sabrina, E. Gudynas, M. Löwy and R. Ramírez Gallegos. (2021). Extractivismo y soberanía en América Latina. Jacobin América Latina.
Fernandes, Sabrina. (2021). Brésil: les dilemmes de la gauche. Nouveaux Cahiers du Socialisme.
Fernandes, Sabrina and M. Löwy. (2021). Tempos de Barbárie pedem Ousadia. Jacobin Brasil.
Fernandes, Sabrina. (2020). Una visión ecosocialista para la descarbonización en América Latina. Tricontinental Cuaderno 2.
— Uma visão ecossocialista para a descarbonização na América Latina. Tricontinental, 2020.
Fernandes, Sabrina. (2020). Afraid to #StayAtHome: Bolsonaro's mobilization of fear during the pandemic. IRGAC Journal of Social Science Research.
Fernandes, Sabrina. (2019). Jair Bolsonaro's Brazil Is a Nightmare That Could Get Worse. Jacobin Magazine.
Fernandes, Sabrina, B. Fogel, and A. Hochuli. (2018). Brazil's Ultra-Politics. Jacobin Magazine.
Fernandes, Sabrina and S. Guajajara. (2018). An Indigenous Reconstruction in Brazil. Jacobin Magazine.
— Não há luta por liberdade sem a luta indígena. Jacobin Brasil, 2021.
Fernandes, Sabrina. (2018). The Lula Question. Jacobin Magazine / NACLA.
Fernandes, Sabrina. (2017). Brazil's Abortion Battle. Jacobin Magazine.
Fernandes, Sabrina and Samuel Silva Borges. (2017). A esquerda antipunitiva. Justificando.
Fernandes, Sabrina. (2017). Assessing the Brazilian Workers' Party. Jacobin Magazine.
Fernandes, Sabrina. (2016). The right marches on Brazil. Jacobin Magazine.
Fernandes, Sabrina. (2015). The cost of saving Rousseff. Jacobin Magazine.
Fernandes, Sabrina. (2014). Post-Politics in Brazil. Jacobin Magazine.

Edited Magazine Issues

Fernandes, Sabrina. Editor. Derrubem este muro! Jacobin Brasil, 2020.
Fernandes, Sabrina. Editor. Marx & Cia. Jacobin Brasil, 2019.

Endorsements and Text for Book Covers

Bae, Abi and Hamza Hamouchene (eds.). Towards Palestinian Liberation: Global Perspectives on Anti-Colonial Resistance and Solidarity. Transnational Institute, 2026.
Santana, Mariane. Quem dá conta de tudo não dá conta de si mesmo. Planeta, 2026.
Angus, Ian. Metabolic Rifts: Capitalism's Assault on the Earth System. Monthly Review Press, 2026.
Hanacek, Ksenija, Marula Tsagkari and Brototi Roy (eds.). Dialogues for Degrowth: Transdisciplinary Perspectives for Sustainable and Inclusive Futures. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2025.
Marx, Paris. Estrada para lugar nenhum. Ubu Editora, 2024.
Corrêa, Felipe. Bandeira Negra: rediscutindo o anarquismo. Autonomia Literária, 2024.
Angus, Ian. The War Against the Commons: Dispossession and Resistance in the Making of Capitalism. NYU Press, 2023.
Federici, Silvia. Mulheres e caça às bruxas. Boitempo Editorial, 2019.
Le Guin, Ursula. Os Despossuídos. Editora Aleph, 2019.
Trotsky, Leon. Como esmagar o fascismo. Editora Autonomia Literária, 2018.

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