Meeting of the Program of Studies on Social Control (IIGG)

The Program of Studies on Social Control of the Gino Germani Research Institute invites you to the Cycle “Discipline and Punish and its plots with academic-intellectual trajectories”

Presentation: Dr. Mariana Valverde

Mariana Valverde is a professor at the Centre for Criminology and Socio-Legal Studies at the University of Toronto, Canada. She is one of the leading researchers in the field of socio-legal studies, working in dialogue with feminist theory and the work of Foucault. She has a prolific output of books and articles, including: *Sex, Power and Pleasure* (1985), *Diseases of the Will: Alcohol and the Dilemmas of Freedom* (2000), *Everyday Law on the Street: City Governance in an Age of Diversity* (2012), *Chronotopes of Law: Jurisdiction, Scale and Governance* (2015), and *The Routledge Handbook of Law and Society* (2021). Her book *Michel Foucault*, published in 2017, in which she explores Foucault's theoretical contributions to the fields of criminology, justice, and criminal law, has become one of the most influential works on these topics.