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“Our Brazil Has Become a Mess”: Nostalgic Narratives of Disorder and Disinterest as a “Once‐Rising Poor” Family from Recife, Brazil, Anticipates the 2018 Elections
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Resumen: Este artigo apresenta um relato etnográfico de uma família extensa da cidade de Recife, nos meses que antecederam as eleições de 2018, nas quais o político de direita Jair Bolsonaro foi eleito para a presidência do Brasil. A família exemplifica o setor contenciosamente chamado de “nova classe média” ‐ os estimados 35 milhões que subiram acima da linha da pobreza durante 14 anos de governo do Partido dos Trabalhadores, mas cujas perspectivas se tornaram precárias desde então. A partir de um extenso trabalho de campo etnográfico, apresento uma série de momentos etnográficos, cada um ilustrando como as conversas informais sobre as próximas eleições refletiram e influenciaram a dinâmica familiar. Surgem nesses momentos narrativas de desintegração moral, aparente nostalgia da ditadura militar brasileira de 1964–85, a perda de masculinidades, sexualidades ameaçadoras e a regeneração de “zumbis” políticos. Adianto uma série de afirmações teóricas sobre as dimensões das afinidades políticas dos "previamente pobres” que merecem uma investigação etnográfica mais profunda.
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“Yet, recent ethnographies have also shown that the current left-right polarization disturbs inter-generational dynamics and produces tensions within households, unlike political tensions in the past (Junge 2019).”
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- Authors
- Junge, B.
- Affiliations
- State University of New York – New Paltz
- Venue
- The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2019-11-11
- Volume
- 24
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 914-931
- ISSN
- 1935-4932
- 1935-4940
- Cited by
- 9
- References
- 16
- Language
- en
- Funders
- Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
- State University of New York at New Paltz
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