Dr Marcos Freire
- Research Fellow (Sociological & Cultural Studies)
email:
Marcos.Freire@glasgow.ac.uk
pronouns:
He/him/his
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0752-5788Biography
Marcos Freire de Andrade Neves is LKAS Research Fellow at the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Glasgow. He is Principal Investigator of the ERC-funded project MORTALMED: The Social Life of a Death-Inducing Pharmaceutical, which examines the global circulation of sodium pentobarbital across contexts of assisted dying and state executions, and the forms of sociality and value that emerge around it.
From 2023 to 2025, he served as Co-Speaker of the Medical Anthropology Working Group of the German Association of Social and Cultural Anthropology (DGSKA). Previously, Marcos was a DAAD PRIME Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Edinburgh and Freie Universität Berlin (2022–2023). His recent projects include the documentary Not Dead Yet, on transnational assisted dying, supported by the Wenner-Gren Foundation’s Fejos Postdoctoral Fellowship in Ethnographic Film (2025), and a DFG-funded project (2024) on the use of sodium pentobarbital in lethal injection protocols in the United States. Marcos was also a member of the DFG-funded Public Anthropology Research Network and the Cross-Party Group on End-of-Life Choices in the Scottish Parliament.
Research interests
His work explores the intersections of necrosocialities, pharmaceutical governance, and end-of-life practices, with a focus on transnational assisted dying, the death penalty, and the socio-political implications of life-ending pharmaceuticals such as sodium pentobarbital.
Research groups
Publications
Prior publications
Book Section
Marcos Freire de Andrade Neves (2025) Politics and practices of assisted dying Crossref. (doi: 10.4337/9781035317349.00030)
Marcos Freire de Andrade Neves (2025) Persönliche Geschichten, ›öffentliche Ängste‹: kollaborative Narrative im filmischen Co-Telling Public Anthropology Marcos Freire de Andrade Neves. ISBN 9783593459431 (doi: 10.12907/978-3-593-45943-1_022)
Marcos Freire de Andrade Neves (2023) Luz Verde para Morrer: Corpos, temporalidades e a dinâmica de acesso à morte assistida organizada O corpo-cronômetro: as temporalidades do corpo nas literaturas lusófonas Marcos Freire de Andrade Neves.
Marcos Freire de Andrade Neves (2021) Chronic Living in Zombieland: Care in Between Survival and Death Managing chronicity in unequal States: Ethnographic perspectives on caring Marcos Freire de Andrade Neves. ISBN 9781800080287
Marcos Freire de Andrade Neves, Tereza Baltag (2019) Dealing with Illness and Dying Affective Dimensions of Fieldwork and Ethnography Marcos Freire de Andrade Neves. (doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20831-8)
Article
Marcos Freire de Andrade Neves (2022) Afterlife Reverberations: Practices of Un/naming in Ethnographic Research on Assisted Suicide Curare, Journal of Medical Anthropology Marcos Freire de Andrade Neves.
Marcos Freire de Andrade Neves (2021) Living the death of others: the disruption of death in the COVID-19 pandemic Horizontes Antropológicos Crossref. (doi: 10.1590/s0104-71832021000100005)
Marcos Freire de Andrade Neves, Giorgio Brocco (2021) Radically Good. Reformulating Healing and Care Practices in Times of Crisis Curare, Journal of Medical Anthropology Marcos Freire de Andrade Neves.
Marcos Freire de Andrade Neves (2020) Protecting life, facilitating death Medicine Anthropology Theory Marcos Freire de Andrade Neves. ISSN 2405-691X (doi: 10.17157/mat.7.1.654)
Marcos Freire de Andrade Neves (2018) States of uncertainty: plural laws and affective governance in the context of assisted suicide in Germany The Journal of Legal Pluralism and Unofficial Law Marcos Freire de Andrade Neves. ISSN 2305-9931 (doi: 10.1080/07329113.2018.1550706)
Marcos Freire de Andrade Neves, Arlei Sander Damo (2016) DINHEIRO, EMOÇÃO E AGÊNCIA: UMA ETNOGRAFIA NO MERCADO FUNERÁRIO DE PORTO ALEGRE Mana Marcos Freire de Andrade Neves. ISSN 0104-9313 (doi: 10.1590/0104-93132016v22n1p007)
Marcos Freire de Andrade Neves (2016) Entre pessoa, Corpo e Coisa: A vida social de cadáveres em laboratórios de anatomia Revista Antropolítica Marcos Freire de Andrade Neves.
Marcos Freire de Andrade Neves (2015) O Culto Ecúmeno-científico: Análise do Culto Ecumênico em Homenagem aos Doadores de Corpos Debates do NER Marcos Freire de Andrade Neves.
Marcos Freire de Andrade Neves (2014) A Percepção Sobre os Usos de Psicofármacos na Índia: Pensando Eating Drugs, de Ecks CAMPOS Marcos Freire de Andrade Neves.
Marcos Freire de Andrade Neves (2013) Um documentário revisitado: 555 Chocolatão ILUMINURAS Marcos Freire de Andrade Neves. ISSN 1984-1191 (doi: 10.22456/1984-1191.37150)
Marcos Freire de Andrade Neves (2012) Dorotheen, um Cemitério: Os ritos de destituição pensados em Berlim Habitus Marcos Freire de Andrade Neves. ISSN 1983-7798
Marcos Freire de Andrade Neves (2011) O Gosto Popular e a Estética do Acaso Revista Todavia Marcos Freire de Andrade Neves. ISSN 2179-1368
Website
Marcos Freire de Andrade Neves, Giorgio Brocco (2022) Radically Good. Reformulating Healing and Care Practices in Times of Crisis. Medizinethnologie: Körper, Gesundheit und Heilung in einer Globalisierten Welt Medizinethnologie: Körper, Gesundheit und Heilung in einer Globalisierten Welt Marcos Freire de Andrade Neves.
Marcos Freire de Andrade Neves (2016) Living Within Assisted Suicide: Drawing a Landscape and its Transnational Movements Medizinethnologie: Körper, Gesundheit und Heilung in einer Globalisierten Welt Marcos Freire de Andrade Neves.
Book
Marcos Freire de Andrade Neves (2017) Por Onde Vivem os Mortos: O processo de fabricação da morte e da pessoa morta no complexo funerário de Porto Alegre Editora da UFRGS Marcos Freire de Andrade Neves. ISBN 9788538603597
Edited Journal
Marcos Freire de Andrade Neves (2014) Estética do Acaso: Um estudo antropológico sobre a dinâmica estética e econômica na Vila Chocolatão Instituto Humanitas Unisinos Marcos Freire de Andrade Neves. ISSN 1806-003X
Grants
2025 – ERC Starting Grant, European Research Council, 1.494.418,75 EUR
2025 – Fejos Postdoctoral Fellowship in Ethnographic Film, Wenner-Gren Foundation, 40.000 USD
2025 – Individual Research Grant, German Research Foundation (DFG), 33.619 EUR
2022-23 – DAAD PRIME Postdoctoral Fellowship, German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), 132.390,71 EUR
2014-18 – PhD Scholarship, Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)
2012-14 – MA Scholarship, Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)
