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Democracy as the negation of discourse: Liberalism, clientelism, and agency in Brazil
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People enact democracy when they undermine their customary speech forms. This is evident in a small municipality in rural northeastern Brazil, where village-dwelling cultivators and town activists are abandoning the practice of displaying electoral propaganda on their private homes because it evokes the shrill voices of domineering politicians and haranguing neighbors. An analysis of local associations among propaganda images, unpleasant voices, and broader genres of political communication finds that the widespread abandonment of propaganda images dramatizes the tension between liberal and illiberal imaginings of democracy in contemporary Brazil.
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“Anthropologists (Ansell 2015;Barreira 1998;Heredia and Palmeira, 2006) have long written about época da politica in Brazil, as a vague period when residents join rival electoral coalitions.”
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Metadata
- Authors
- ANSELL, A.
- Affiliations
- Department of Religion and Culture Lane Hall 112; Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; (0227) 280 Alumni Mall Blacksburg VA 24061
- Venue
- American Ethnologist
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2015-10-26
- Volume
- 42
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 688-702
- ISSN
- 0094-0496
- Cited by
- 9
- References
- 27
- Language
- en
- Licence
- doi.wiley.com/10.1002/tdm_license_1.1 (tdm)
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