Brazil, Land of the Past: The Ideological Roots of the New Right - Georg Wink
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Brazil, Land of the Past: The Ideological Roots of the New Right

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English
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Bibliotopía
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336
ISBN
9786079934811
Georg Wink's Brazil, Land of the Past scrutinizes the ideological foundations of Brazil's New Right. The book reveals a persistent system of thought rooted in the concept of a divinely ordained hierarchical order, which actively resists social contracts and modernizing influences. This enduring ideology forms the basis for a broad movement encompassing figures from the authoritarian Bolsonaro faction to economic liberals, the military, and both Catholic and evangelical conservatives.

This analysis details how this anti-modernist reaction, often implicitly, seeks to defend an idealized "authentic Brazil" from an "aberrant State." The underlying aim is to maintain inherited privileges within a profoundly unequal society.

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