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| Autor(es): |
Albert, Victor
Número total de Autores: 1
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| Tipo de documento: | Artigo Científico |
| Fonte: | THESIS ELEVEN; v. 164, n. 1, p. 17-pg., 2021-06-07. |
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Brazilian society has frequently been described as polarized during the country's recent political and economic crisis. In 2018, a wave of opposition to the centre-left Workers' Party culminated in the election of Jair Bolsonaro, a right-wing populist who portrays the political left as a malevolent force in Brazilian society. In this paper I explore this polarization through drawing on ethnographic research with the Homeless Workers' Movement (Movimento de Trablhadores Sem-Teto, MTST), a large urban social movement that develops settlements on underutilized land in the city, and a prominent civil society opponent of Bolsonaro. More specifically, I examine a key site of socio-spatial tension in Sao Paulo, Paulista Avenue, as a new political right came to predominate on the city's main thoroughfare during the campaign to impeach the Workers' Party President, Dilma Rousseff. I show how the perceived intolerance of the mobilized right helped to establish new normative codes that regulated the political symbolism which could be displayed in public spaces. Lastly, I consider how the vilification of the MTST in particular and the political left in general by the new right is embedded in broader structures of stigmatization. (AU) | |
| Processo FAPESP: | 15/14474-0 - Governance regimes in São Paulo: an ethnography of state departments and marginal communities in São Paulo |
| Beneficiário: | Victor Attila Albert |
| Modalidade de apoio: | Bolsas no Brasil - Pós-Doutorado |