How can Brazil be understood as a global laboratory for fascist insurrection? Given the events of January 8, 2023, this essay intends to analyze, on the one hand, the manifestation of a global extreme right that tends to operate as a large-scale, long-lasting anti-institutional offensive force. On the other hand, there is also a global dynamic limited to liberal democracies of institutional reform that cowers in the face of radical demands, such as the end of national policing above all. Finally, the constant colonization of Brazilian politics by society's militarized operations urges us to reclaim the foundations of politics as potential for (im)possible futures through uprisings against our unbearable condition, in turn transforming the unsustainability of life into a collective venture for transformation.
Brazil as a Laboratory for Fascist Uprising
Augusto Jobim do Amaral is professor in the Graduate Program in Philosophy (School of the Humanities) and in the Graduate Program in Criminal Sciences (School of Law) at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS/Brazil). He received his PhD in advanced contemporary studies from the University of Coimbra and an additional PhD in criminal sciences from PUCRS. He has been a visiting professor at the Universidad de Sevilla (2022) and at the Università degli Studi di Padova (2019). He is the author of Política da Criminologia (2020) and co-organizer of Algoritarismos (2022) and A cidade como máquina biopolítica (2022).
Augusto Jobim do Amaral; Brazil as a Laboratory for Fascist Uprising. South Atlantic Quarterly 1 April 2024; 123 (2): 385–394. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-11086627
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