Bolsonarismo

FERNANDO BRANCOLI is an associate professor of international security and geopolitics at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He is also a research associate at the Orfalea Center for Global and International Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His recent books include The Tropical Silk Road: The Future of China in South America (with Paul Amar and Lisa Rofel), Private Security Companies in the Global South, and Arab Spring: Squares, Streets, and Revolts.

"Brancoli’s thrillingly-original and uniquely-probing analysis will captivate students, scholars, journalists, and activists concerned by the rise of the far right in Latin America. Brancoli provides clarity for a world spellbound by the hypocrisy, sadism, mismanagement, and ecocidal racism of the Bolsonaro administration. Offering a set of global perspectives grounded in local histories and contexts, this book sets Brazil into a dynamic transnational frame, and brings Eurocentric and U.S.-based scholarship on the new right into conversation with Latin American political sociology and interdisciplinary political studies." - Paul Amar (author of The Security Archipelago: Human-Security States, Sexuality Politics, and the End of Neolib) "Brancoli retraces how, in the first decades of the 21st century, Brazil became an ultra-right global hub. It examines how bolsonarismo, albeit not cohesive, constitutes a political constellation that will not vanish with the electoral defeat of its leader. Above all, it charters how the same far-right that repudiates 'globalism' is itself viscerally transnational." - Sonia Corrêa (co-editor of The Remaking of Social Contracts: Feminists in a Fierce New World) "For anyone willing to understand the rise of authoritarian nationalist leaders and far right ideologies across the world, Bolsonarismo is an enlightening descent into the improbable alliance of moral reaction, religious inspiration, neoliberal policies, populist strategies, and blatant racism. While deeply grounded in the Brazilian context, it also offers a broader reflection on lurking fascist trends in contemporary societies." - Didier Fassin (professor at the Collège de France and the Institute for Advanced Study)

• Introduction1 Extreme Right, Bolsonarismo, and the Multiple Bodies of Conservatism in Brazil2 Bolsonarismo and the Battle against Globalism: Neoconservatism as a Transnational Alliance3 Moral Geopolitics: Neo-Pentecostalism, Christian Zionism, and the Internationalization of Salvation4 Domestic and International Pacification: Militarism, Peacekeeping Operations, and Enemy Formation in Brazil5 Authoritarian Meritocracy: Bolsonarismo, the Establishment of an Entrepreneurial Nation, and the Privatization of the FamilyConclusion: Bolsonarismo after Bolsonaro––From New Institutional Leaders to Evangelical Paramilitary GroupsAcknowledgmentsNotesReferencesIndex