Foreign policy of the New Left: explaining Brazil's Southern partnerships

Pickup, Megan

doi:10.1590/s0102-8529.2016380100002

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“…The goal of this paper is threefold. First, we argue that current infrastructure projects planned and constructed by new “partners” such as China and, though not attended to within this paper, even Brazil (see Pickup 2016), who get this distinction, habitually, because of their lack of colonial history in Africa, engage and extend already existing dynamics of pathological racialisation of Africa and Africans even amidst claims to horizontal “South–South” cooperation and “win–win” bromides. Though these more recent partners uphold long established material and vernacular tropes that frame Africa simultaneously in terms of deficit and as the next frontier, prevailing discourses about their presence rarely attend to the racialisations they build on and reproduce.…”

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Imperial Remains and Imperial Invitations: Centering Race within the Contemporary Large‐Scale Infrastructures of East Africa

Kimari

Ernstson

2020

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In this paper we combine infrastructure studies and black radical traditions to foreground how imperial remains deeply inform the logics that bring forth contemporary large‐scale infrastructures in Africa. The objective, prompted by the ongoing avid promotion of such architectures on the continent, is to contribute to an analysis that centres race in these projects. Our argument is that these initiatives have to be understood in relation to inherited material and discursive scaffoldings that remain from the colonial period, through what we refer to as imperial remains and imperial invitations. These remains and invitations demonstrate how recent mega infrastructures inhere, in their planning, financing and implementation, a colonial racialism, despite rhetorical claims to the opposite. Empirically, we draw, principally, on China built and financed infrastructure projects from Kenya, and theoretically upon black radical traditions in order to foreground a longer genealogy of black pathologising and resistance to it on the continent.

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Imperial Remains and Imperial Invitations: Centering Race within the Contemporary Large‐Scale Infrastructures of East Africa

Kimari

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2020

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“…It reinforces the idea that solidarity 'talk' is dispensable and that trade and investment are central in Brazil's politics. Be that as it may, Brazil's reliance on sustained market growth and exports of primary commodities brings about other forms of dependencies (Pereira et al 2016). This then influences the perception of Brazil's engagement with the BRICS forum-especially when taken into consideration the more successful economic members (e.g., China).…”

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Seeking strategic narrative alignment: the case of BRICS and Brazil on the issue of infrastructural development

Noort

2019

Rev. bras. polít. int.

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“…Instead, in the sections below, I examine the interplay between structural and domestic determinants in defining the form of Brazil's cooperation -and ultimately, in later Chapters, its effects. This analysis brings in much of the insights raised in the political economy critiques made of both traditional aid and 17 Much of this section is developed in Pickup (2016).…”

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“…Seabra (2014) also provides a "complement" to such accounts by arguing that defense cooperation has also dramatically increased over the previous decade (p. 78). The rest of this section is based on arguments I develop elsewhere (Pickup, 2016) on how foreign policy behaviour has been influenced by institutional arrangements and by several key constituencies that are in some ways specific to that realm.…”

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An Emerging, Post-Neoliberal Power: The Practice of Brazilian South-South Cooperation in Haiti

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This study examines the practice of Brazil's humanitarian and development cooperation with Haiti. Brazil is one of several "emerging donors" to have significantly increased their provision of development cooperation over the past decade as part of broader shifts in global political economy, raising questions as to how cooperation functions in terms of these powers' broader foreign policy objectives. The dissertation situates the question in literature that asks why states are motivated to provide development cooperation, how cooperation impacts recipient states, and expectations for the foreign policy behaviour of emerging countries in general, and for Brazil specifically. The project is based on extensive fieldwork carried out in Brazil and Haiti with 57 individuals and groups in Portuguese, French, and English, as well as Kreyól (with the assistance of an interpreter).In contrast to the current treatment of the objectives of a state in providing development cooperation, which remains focused on Western powers, I demonstrate empirically how cooperation has supported Brazil as a specifically "post-neoliberal" emerging power (meaning an interventionist state committed to balancing market concerns with other social, political and economic objectives). I argue that Brazilian cooperation has been positively received by Haitian authorities, resulting in clear (albeit short-term) political gains, mainly because of Brazil's commitment to capacity-building through direct engagement with Haitian officials. However, in approaching aid as a practice, I further conclude that the features of cooperation and the Haitian state's response are inexplicable without a post-colonial interpretation that situates cooperation in historically constituted political economies by, for instance, recognizing Brazil's desire to position itself as an alternative to the West and Haiti's consistent and problematic treatment as "fragile" in its traditional aid relations. I develop the concept of "post-colonial practice" to acknowledge how emergent forms of South-South cooperation occur in and challenge this broader context. This approach forges links between material and ideational contributions in IR, especially from critical political economy and post-colonial work (as well as postdevelopment).iii Acknowledgements This work has truly been a collaborative effort. I would first like to thank my dissertation committee for their continuous support, professional and personal, and for their intellectual guidance, which has enriched the end product in countless ways. Sean Burges has been a source of inspiration for thinking about Brazilian politics and Brazilian foreign policy, even before he was a member of the committee. Chris Brown, thank you in particular for asking tough methodological questions at the start of the process. Cristina Rojas, I am indebted to your influence for the evolution in my theoretical and conceptual understandings of international relations. I am profoundly grateful for the indescribable support of my supervisor, Laura Macdo...

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Foreign policy of the New Left: explaining Brazil's Southern partnerships

Cited by 6 publications

References 32 publications

Imperial Remains and Imperial Invitations: Centering Race within the Contemporary Large‐Scale Infrastructures of East Africa

Imperial Remains and Imperial Invitations: Centering Race within the Contemporary Large‐Scale Infrastructures of East Africa

Seeking strategic narrative alignment: the case of BRICS and Brazil on the issue of infrastructural development

An Emerging, Post-Neoliberal Power: The Practice of Brazilian South-South Cooperation in Haiti

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