Hybrid warfare in Brazil

Leirner, Piero de Camargo

doi:10.1086/708680

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“…Bolsonaro's rise was only possible because of a "soft" coup using "law fare"-that is, (mis)use of law as a substitute for military means to achieve the objective-with the support of virtually all of Brazil's powerful mass media outlets, albeit a few less than others (Rodrigues, 2018). Planned by elite opponents of the Workers Party, including a coalition of members of Brazil's Congress and military (Leirner, 2020;Van Dijk, 2017), the goal was to remove the Workers Party, which had won every popular election since the turn of the century, and to replace it with a center-right government more inclined to serve a neoliberal agenda and, thereby, finance and US interests (Mier et al, 2023). The plot resulted in the 2016 impeachment of the democratically elected Dilma Rousseff on illegitimate grounds (ibid.).…”

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Media Reform as Transformation Tool: A Hegemonic Gap in Environmental Research and Policy

Lahsen

2024

Int J Polit Cult Soc

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Sustainability researchers are writing much about levers for transformations towards sustainability but too little about the most powerful means available for obstructing and activating them: mass-reaching media systems. How media systems are structured and governed form a profoundly important meta-level layer of decision-making that ought to be central in the study of environmental politics and in environmental policymaking. A politics- and media-focused account of the rise of Jair Bolsonaro to the presidency of Brazil illustrates the essential role of media systems and the need for new principles, structures, and policies for their governance if the interlinked goals of democracy, equity, and environmental protection are to be achieved. The pervasive inattention to this in environmental research reinforces hegemonic forces and needs to be widely discussed, understood, and overcome to achieve much needed just transformations towards sustainability.

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Section: Responsibility Attribution 20: Adding Mediamentioning

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Media Reform as Transformation Tool: A Hegemonic Gap in Environmental Research and Policy

Lahsen

2024

Int J Polit Cult Soc

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“…55-56), it made very few changes to the role of the armed forces and the police in security. This has to do with the force that the military has exerted in Brazilian politics (Leirner, 2020). In the past decades, several attempts to reform the police (including demilitarizing police forces and enhancing the accountability of police agents) were blocked by the lobbying of the armed forces and the military police in the national congress (Ambrosio, 2017;Zaverucha, 1998).…”

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Language as Hope

Silva,

Lee

2024

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Although it feels like we live in a time of seeming hopelessness, this pioneering book illustrates what language can teach us about the practice, logic, and feasibility of hope in the twenty-ﬁrst century. Silva and Lee highlight how people living in Brazilian urban peripheries, who have grown accustomed to unrelenting prejudice and violence on an everyday basis, use language to survive and imagine futures that are worth aspiring to. In so doing, this book foregrounds how language becomes a matter of survival for these communities. It provides a thorough theorization of how language can produce conditions of hope, moving away from the idea of language merely as a tool of communication and toward something that can meaningfully impact social realities. Innovative and engaging, it is essential reading for researchers and students in applied linguistics, sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.

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“…It relates to what Piero Leirner calls "the cryptography of form" in military movements. (Leirner 2020) Guyer did not pay much attention to the political aspect of decision-making in relation to temporality. Yet, when she proposes a theory of punctuated time, a shift is implied concerning the binary nature in classic decisionism.…”

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Afterword

Abreu¹

2023

The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology

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Inspired by key concerns of this collective project, this afterword article highlights two main aspects in the discussion of governance through suspension. The first aspect is how geographically widespread the rhetoric of ‘indeterminacy’ (as the fuel of the temporal medium of suspension) has become, soliciting analyses of differentiation across cultures and time. The second aspect relates to the politics of punctuated time in light of changes happening in our current culture of temporality. These two aspects integrate my interest in rethinking the classic concept of the (sovereign) decision conceived as separation from towards that of incision as cut through, particularly in light of rising expressions of authoritarian populism, globally, across regimes.

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Hybrid warfare in Brazil

Cited by 25 publications

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Media Reform as Transformation Tool: A Hegemonic Gap in Environmental Research and Policy

Media Reform as Transformation Tool: A Hegemonic Gap in Environmental Research and Policy

Language as Hope

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