A hemispheric moral majority: Brazil and the transnational construction of the New Right

Cowan, Benjamin A.

doi:10.1590/0034-7329201800204

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“…For instance, while it has been common to associate emerging forms of far-right religious moralism in Latin America to the influence of US evangelicalism, recent studies have pointed out the importance of Global South countries like Brazil to gestation of the transnational far-right movements throughout the 20th century. 147 In the words of Cowan, account 'from the north tend to ignore the simultaneity of right-wing religious ascendancy in Brazil and the United States'. 148 Lastly, a GHS framework can also re-orient research towards analysing the distinguishing social and political dynamics of the far-right in the Global South as compared to the Global North.…”

Section: Towards a Global Historical Sociology Of The Far-rightmentioning

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The International Turn in Far-Right Studies: A Critical Assessment

Campos

2023

Millennium: Journal of International Studies

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In recent years, there has been an intense public debate regarding the worldwide re-emergence of far-right politics and the ways in which it has engaged with the international. Surprisingly, thus far there have been no reflections on the broader implications of conceptualising the far-right in its international, transnational, and global dimensions. This article argues that we are witnessing an international turn in far-right studies that posits the international as constitutive of far-right politics, opening new forms of understanding it both from a historical and theoretical point of view. It develops a conceptual assessment of the international turn in three steps: first, it identifies that what binds this interdisciplinary literature together and breaks away from mainstream approaches is a shared critique of methodological nationalism; second, it classifies innovations in two different conceptual levels: the ‘globalisation front’, which sees transformations in the nature of far-right politics due the intensification of globalisation, and the ‘historiographical front’, which claims that the far-right has always been an international phenomenon. The article then analyses the main limitations of the international turn and offers a way to overcome it by articulating an intersocietal approach to the study of the far-right that draws from Global Historical Sociology.

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The International Turn in Far-Right Studies: A Critical Assessment

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2023

Millennium: Journal of International Studies

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“…The case of Catholic right-wing groups is very distinctive in this regard. Cowan ,123 for one, reveals that Brazil's TFP has nurtured close ties with US Christian New Right organisations, such as the International Policy Forum and the World Anti-Communist League, for most of the second half of the 20th century. Besides fundamentalist conservatism and anti-Communism, religious nationalism is also a common thread between Brazilian and US Catholics, playing a key role in the way such groups engage in party politics and government.…”

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“…Specifically, we identify and discuss the role of transnational actors that helped shape Brazil's religious nationalist platform under Bolsonaro, and how the Bolsonaro administration has emboldened and potentialised the transnational reach of organised religious groups. 21…”

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Statecraft under God: Radical Right Populism meets Christian Nationalism in Bolsonaro’s Brazil

Barbosa

Casarões

2022

Millennium: Journal of International Studies

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Using Brazil as a case study, we examine ways in which radical right activists and leaders actively participate in world politics through religious nationalist narratives which operate on both national and transnational levels. We propose the existence of a particular subcategory of populist radical right (PRR) politics, which we call religious-populist radical right. Our argument is divided into three parts. First, we argue that religion provides ideational and material capabilities that have allowed the PRR to capture state institutions through elections. Second, we claim that once in power, the PRR’s governing strategy is conducted through transnational culture wars with religious overtones. Third, we argue that the PRR establishes novel patterns of international alliances to advance their vision of a new world order based on independent ethno-religious communities. By exploring the entanglements between the PRR and religious nationalism, we conclude that religion provides the radical right with the ideas, means, and social power to transform both state forms and world orders.

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“…The originality of the current work is justified by the in-depth analysis of this field, since there is still no intellectual map of this geopolitical imaginary in Brazil. The present article, on the other hand, seeks to advance, based on the Brazilian case, the debate already initiated by works that reflect on the construction of an ultra-right political imaginary (Barbosa Jr. and Casarões, 2023;Cowan, 2018;Grumke, 2013;Stewart, 2020).…”

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The Geopolitical Imaginary of the BrazilianUltra‐Right

Chaloub

2023

Bull Latin American Res

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The strengthening of the ultra‐right in the Brazilian political scenario has a certain geopolitical imagination as one of its centres. Its main authors, on the one hand, consider Latin America as something to be avoided, and, on the other hand, value the affinities between Brazil and the United States due to the idea of a mutual belonging to a Christian West. The present article explains the most current assumptions and arguments of this discourse after 2016, based on an analysis of the geopolitical imaginary of the Brazilian ultra‐right. The text reconstructs three political languages of the field – the reactionary, the ultraliberal, and the authoritarian conservative, based on the analysis of four intellectual protagonists: Olavo de Carvalho, Ernesto Araújo, Paulo Guedes, and Eduardo Villas Bôas. Finally, we raise some hypotheses about the reasons for the longevity of some fundamental traits of this geopolitical imaginary in the Brazilian scenario.

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A hemispheric moral majority: Brazil and the transnational construction of the New Right

Cited by 9 publications

References 6 publications

The International Turn in Far-Right Studies: A Critical Assessment

The International Turn in Far-Right Studies: A Critical Assessment

Statecraft under God: Radical Right Populism meets Christian Nationalism in Bolsonaro’s Brazil

The Geopolitical Imaginary of the BrazilianUltra‐Right

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