The New Far-Right in Brazil and the Construction of a Right-Wing Order

Goldstein, Ariel Alejandro

doi:10.1177/0094582x19846900

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“…Undoubtedly, the Bolsonaro government epitomizes the ascendancy of illiberal populism (Goldstein, 2019; Hunter and Power, 2019), which is different from 1990s conservative, market-oriented populism in the region. It reflects the ascendancy of cultural conservatism alarmed about the apparent power of secular and socialist ideas disseminated by universities, the media and non-government organizations.…”

Section: Public Communication In Bolsonaro’s Right-wing Populismmentioning

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Why Paulo Freire is a threat for right-wing populism: Lessons for communication of hope

Waisbord

2020

International Communication Gazette

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Right-wing populism advances a brand of communicative politics that are antithetical to Paulo Freire’s vision of liberating, critical, and participatory communication. This essential opposition helps to understand why the Bolsonaro government has turned Freire into a target of criticisms, as part of its ambitious, furious attempt to remove progressive politics and human rights advances from Brazilian society. Considering the current situation, the purpose of this paper is to examine the relevance of Freire’s ideas for the analysis of the politics of hope against populism. His principles of public criticism, dialogue, autonomous participation, humanism, and hope are antithetical to populism’s vision. The unfolding of both dialogic and expressive politics against populism in Brazil and elsewhere illustrate the significance of Freire’s arguments, and raise questions about the limitations of purely dialogic strategies to confront authoritarianism.

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Section: Public Communication In Bolsonaro’s Right-wing Populismmentioning

confidence: 99%

Why Paulo Freire is a threat for right-wing populism: Lessons for communication of hope

Waisbord

2020

International Communication Gazette

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“…In several other European countries, right‐wing populist parties are significant political entities either as partners of coalition governments or simply affecting the political agenda. In the US, there was Trump (Norris & Inglehart, 2019), and in Brazil, Bolsonaro (Goldstein, 2019). The list can expand to include several other countries governed by populist right‐wing and far‐right leaders.…”

Section: Right‐wing and Far‐right Populism In Europe And Beyond: Focumentioning

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The role of economic and cultural changes in the rise of far‐right in Greece: A regional analysis

Artelaris

Mavrommatis

2021

Regional Science Policy & Practice

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The recent strengthening of right‐wing and far‐right populism is one of the greatest political manifestations of our times and a dominant feature of the current European political landscape. In Greece, its rise coincided with a period of a prolonged financial aid programme (“bailouts”) imposing harsh austerity measures and deep structural reforms. The objective of this study is to assess the extent to which the spatially differentiated gains of Golden Dawn, one of the most anti‐establishment, anti‐migrant and anti‐EU political parties in Europe, were due to (socio‐)economic or cultural changes (or both) that took place in the country in recent years. The findings provide evidence in favour of the combined role of (socio‐)economic and cultural grievances; however, the former seem to be more important than the latter.

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“…Whether or not one agrees with such assessments, the basic point is this: post‐neoliberalism was a short‐lived moment that ultimately gave way to an authoritarian populism which fuses market‐based governance with majoritarian cultural politics of different hues in a bid to stave off the crisis of neoliberalism a little longer (Boffo et al., 2019; Goldstein, 2019; Grugel and Rigirozzi, 2018; Nilsen, forthcoming; Peck and Theodore, 2019). What this signifies is that the departures from neoliberal orthodoxy that characterized this moment were not grounded in any kind of decisive shift in power relations between social forces.…”

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Give James Ferguson a Fish

Nilsen¹

2020

Development and Change

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When James Ferguson's Give a Man a Fish was published in 2015, it seemed to many that the anthropologist was continuing his trailblazing work in critical development research and pioneering a new imaginary for a progressive left politics of welfare. This article argues that such enthusiasm is misplaced and that we need to devote ourselves to a more rigorous and ambitious project if we are to forge a social theory for the future that holds any kind of genuinely emancipatory potential. First, the article shows how Ferguson's diagnosis of global development is analytically flawed in that it is articulated at a strictly empirical and descriptive level. As a result, Ferguson fails to probe into the underlying power relations that have generated the developmental scenario that is the context of his reflections. It then moves on to show how this absence of any sustained conceptual and analytical engagement with questions of power in the political economy of capitalism leads Ferguson to a deeply flawed argument about welfare. The article concludes with a brief reflection on what an alternative and genuinely socialist form of welfare might look like in the context of a conjuncture of sustained neoliberal crisis.

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The New Far-Right in Brazil and the Construction of a Right-Wing Order

Cited by 49 publications

References 7 publications

Why Paulo Freire is a threat for right-wing populism: Lessons for communication of hope

Why Paulo Freire is a threat for right-wing populism: Lessons for communication of hope

The role of economic and cultural changes in the rise of far‐right in Greece: A regional analysis

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