Between “us” and “them”: political subjectivities in the shadows of the 2018 brazilian election

Abstract

This article examines political subjectivities, community engagements and voting practices among residents of São Paulo’s Zona Sul peripheries in the three years preceding Brazil’s 2018 presidential election. Building on a 398-person household survey, 46 in-depth interviews, and extensive participation observation over the course of a four-year study, we argue that although most residents of our study communities across the political spectrum are disenchanted with institutional politics, many maintain political engagement through their everyday lives, including activism centered on intersectional identities and state-sponsored violence/genocide. Our discussion combines statistical analysis and auto-ethnographic inflected vignettes and is in dialogue with two common themes present in recent analyses of the Brazilian political landscape: the role of urban periphery voters in the election of Bolsonaro, and the complex connections between moralities and political subjectivities. In conclusion, we reflect on opportunities and challenges for progressive political engagement in the (post)Bolsonaro era.

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“…Esse decreto foi concebido pelo Comitê Interministerial, constituído pelo Ministério da Mulher, da Família e dos Direitos Humanos, pela Casa Civil, pelos Ministérios da Educação, da Cidadania e da Saúde. É importante ressaltar que esse decreto está em total consonância com a política neoliberal e conservadora da extrema direita proferida pelo atual governo desde o processo eleitoral (Klein, Carmo &Tavares, 2020), resultando em um enfrentamento das políticas de igualdade de gênero, impondo uma lógica de fortalecimento da "família tradicional" (Biroli, 2020).…”