The Geopolitical Imaginary of the BrazilianUltra-Right

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ID3818728
AuthorsJorge Chaloub (0000-0002-7990-4496, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro Brazil, corresponding author)
Year2023
Volume42
Issue4
Pages539-550
Publication date2023-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueBulletin of Latin American Research (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0261-3050 • E-ISSN: 1470-9856
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/blar.13470
OpenAlexW4362608569
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited12

The strengthening of the ultra-right in the Brazilian political scenario has a certain geopolitical imagination as one of its centres. Its main authors, on the one hand, consider Latin America as something to be avoided, and, on the other hand, value the affinities between Brazil and the United States due to the idea of a mutual belonging to a Christian West. The present article explains the most current assumptions and arguments of this discourse after 2016, based on an analysis of the geopolitical imaginary of the Brazilian ultra-right. The text reconstructs three political languages of the field - the reactionary, the ultraliberal, and the authoritarian conservative, based on the analysis of four intellectual protagonists: Olavo de Carvalho, Ernesto Araújo, Paulo Guedes, and Eduardo Villas Bôas. Finally, we raise some hypotheses about the reasons for the longevity of some fundamental traits of this geopolitical imaginary in the Brazilian scenario

Authoritarianism · Geopolitics · Latin Americans · Political science · Politics · Psychoanalysis · Reactionary · Sociology · The Imaginary · Brazilian History and Foreign Policy · Education, Politics, and Culture Studies · Law · Religion and Society in Latin America

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