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Environmental governance under Bolsonaro: dismantling institutions, curtailing participation, delegitimising opposition

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Menezes, Roberto Goulart, Barbosa, Ricardo·2021·Zeitschrift für Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft
DOI 10.1007/s12286-021-00491-8PMC PMC8358914
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Tensions concerning environmental governance have increased in Brazil since the far-right came to power in 2016. We offer insight into this process by analysing the first two years of Jair Bolsonaro's (2019-ongoing) environmental policies-namely, how Brazil's environmental protection arrangements are being dismantled. We find that the Bolsonaro administration centralises environmental governance in Brazil through complementary authoritarian and populist means. First in restricting participatory decision-making spaces such as the National Environmental Council (Conama) and the National Council of the Legal Amazon (CNAL), and, second, by attacking indigenous and traditional peoples, NGOs, scientists, and other environmental defenders. To illustrate the authoritarian dimension of Bolsonaro's environmental governance, we carry out a political-institutional analysis of contemporary Brazilian environmental politics and then exemplify the ways and extent to which attacks against environmental defenders is a constituent part of Bolsonaro's environmental populism. We hold that such attacks are not merely rhetorical but a political tactic to legitimise Bolsonaro's authoritarian environmental governance in the promotion of 'total extractivism' while maintaining a populist appeal.

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Authors
Menezes, R. G., & Barbosa, R.
Affiliations
  • Universidade de Brasília (BR)
  • University of Calgary (CA)
Corresponding author
Barbosa, Ricardo
ORCID
Venue
Zeitschrift für Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Published
2021-06
Volume
15
Issue
2
Pages
229-247
ISSN
  • 1865-2646 (ISSN-L)
  • 1865-2654
DOI
10.1007/s12286-021-00491-8
PMC
PMC8358914
OpenAlex
W3196233990
Cited by
104
References
85
Citations by year
2026: 20 · 2025: 21 · 2024: 16 · 2023: 30 · 2022: 14 · 2021: 3
FWCI
52.36
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Licence
Locations
  • Zeitschrift für Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Funders
  • Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico
  • Fundação de Apoio à Pesquisa do Distrito Federal
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › Politics and Society in Latin America
  • Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › Populism, Right-Wing Movements
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Extractivism and Socioeconomic Issues
Keywords
environmental governance, Bolsonaro government, authoritarianism, environmental defenders, indigenous peoples, participatory decision-making, far right, Brazil

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