Agri-bolsonarism : a movement led by agricultural elites and far-right politicians in Brazil
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As the balance of forces in Brazil shifted toward conservatism in the 2010s, regional agricultural elites and Jair Bolsonaro formed a political-economic movement. This article analyses the constitution and consolidation of this movement, here called agri-bolsonarism, considering its connections with national agricultural associations and transnational agribusiness corporations and its relations with agrarian and climate politics. The research is based on participant observation in business associations, corporate and state archives and interviews with private and political leaders.
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In Brazil's case, the new value assemblage involves adherence to a neoliberal and libertarian mindset associated with former president Jair Bolsonaro's far-right agenda that is antagonistic in particular to environmental regulations.
“In Brazil's case, that also involves adherence to a neoliberal and libertarian mindsetassociated with former president Jair Bolsonaro's far-right agendathat is antagonistic in particular to environmental regulations (Aragão et al., 2024;Delgado and Martins, 2024;Pompeia, 2024).”
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The Notes (nos. 3 and 16; page unavailable) describe agri-bolsonarism as a movement built around Bolsonaro and identify climate politics as central to its ideology. Note 26 reports an agricultural association’s attempt to overturn the soy moratorium, supporting opposition to an environmental restriction. The passages do not establish the claimed neoliberal and libertarian mindset. (LLM, conf=0.78)
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- Caio Pompeia is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of São Paulo (USP). His research focuses on food systems in relation to climate, agrarian and food politics. He holds a PhD in Social Anthropology from the State University of Campinas (Unicamp) (2018) and completed a PhD Exchange Programme at Harvard University (2017). Between 2021 and 2023, he was an Academic Visitor at the University of Oxford.
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- Authors
- Pompeia, C.
- Affiliations
- Universidade de São Paulo (BR)
- Corresponding author
- Pompeia, Caio
- ORCID
- Pompeia, Caio
- Venue
- The Journal of Peasant Studies
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2024-01-11
- Volume
- 51
- Issue
- 7
- Pages
- 1483-1507
- ISSN
- 0306-6150 (ISSN-L)
- 1743-9361
- OpenAlex
- W4390750202
- Cited by
- 18
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2026: 10 · 2025: 5 · 2024: 3
- FWCI
- 9.27
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
- doi.org
- Licence
- cc-by-sa
- Locations
- The Journal of Peasant Studies (publishedVersion, cc-by-sa)
- Funders
- São Paulo State Research Foundation (2020/03413-8)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › General Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development
- Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › Populism, Right-Wing Movements
- Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › Politics and Society in Latin America
- Keywords
- Jair Bolsonaro, agrarian elites, far right, conservatism, transnational agribusiness, agricultural associations, agrarian politics, climate politics, Brazil
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