Populist radical right and religious nationalism in the Global South: The cases of Brazil and India (2014-2023)

• Grant number: 24/09093-6
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate
• Start date: November 01, 2024
• End date: October 31, 2028
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Political Science - International Politics
• Principal Investigator: Cristina Soreanu Pecequilo
• Grantee: Guilherme Theodoro Gusson
• Host Institution: Instituto de Políticas Públicas e Relações Internacionais (IPPRI). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de São Paulo. São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

This project aims to analyze how the populist radical right (PRR) manifested itself in different ways in Brazil and India under the governments of Jair Bolsonaro (2018-2022) and Narendra Modi (2014-), respectively. By analyzing such cases, we intend to investigate similarities, patterns and divergences in the nationalist-religious rhetoric of the radical right in Brazil and India, and the way in which Bolsonaro and Modi sought to change the national identity of their countries based on religious and , consequently, the way in which Brazil and India sought to project themselves internationally. Starting from a constructivist approach and the literature on the far-right in International Relations, we seek to verify the hypothesis that in Brazil there was an articulation of the PRR much more focused on the global level, while in India there was a more regionally oriented movement.