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| Author(s): |
Feltran, Gabriel
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| Document type: | Journal article |
| Source: | HAU-JOURNAL OF ETHNOGRAPHIC THEORY; v. 10, n. 1, p. 9-pg., 2020-03-01. |
| Abstract | |
This article presents three ethnographic scenes extracted from Brazilian urban life, the earliest dating from 2013. It reflects on the rise of the extreme right in contemporary Brazil, a process that shares similarities with what takes place in many parts of the world. I argue that specific types of militarism, anti-intellectualism, and entrepreneurial monetarism became a part of the daily lives of different social classes as three discursive matrices of a mass movement. Major sectors of the religious world, of the police and military, as well as the professional world and the financial market, offered a political-electoral program for this movement, resulting in Jair Bolsonaro's victory. This movement of the masses aims to destroy the current political system, perceived as degenerate, and substitute for it a new order, which will produce a new man. The social conflict instilled by this program does not fundamentally organize itself as class struggle, although, paradoxically, it creates them under the guise of a "struggle." Theoretically, I am interested in the role of daily life and daily conflicts in structuring regimes of power. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 13/07616-7 - CEM - Center for Metropolitan Studies |
| Grantee: | Eduardo Cesar Leão Marques |
| Support Opportunities: | Research Grants - Research, Innovation and Dissemination Centers - RIDC |