Mariana Teixeira is Associate Researcher at the Brazilian Center for Analysis and Planning, in São Paulo, and was a Visiting Researcher at the Free University-Berlin. She received her Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Campinas (Brazil) with a dissertation on social pathologies, suffering, and resistance in the work of Axel Honneth. Mariana has published on critical theory, Marxism, post-colonialism, and feminism, and is a member of the editorial board of the academic journals Ideias and Dissonancia: Critical Theory Journal.