Abstract:
Is there such a thing as a concept of Bolsonarism? If so, what does it refer to? This study argues that it is possible to give defined contours to this concept if we understand it as referring not to any particular ideological innovation or to any specificity of the Brazilian far right toward its peers around the world or even to any particular trait of the leader who lends it its name; but rather to the conditions of formation and consolidation of a political force originally constituted in the 2018 presidential election in Brazil. Thus understood, Bolsonarism can be interpreted as designating at the same time a convergence of different social tendencies; a political horizon; an organizational ecology; an affective infrastructure; and a machine that works by stimulating and containing the excess of its social base.
Keywords:
Bolsonarismo
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Extreme Right
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Organzsational Ecology
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Affective Infrastructure