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Limits of Democracy - From the June 2013 Uprisings in Brazil to the Bolsonaro Government (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)
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Limits of Democracy - From the June 2013 Uprisings in Brazil to the Bolsonaro Government (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)
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In this timely book, Brazilian political philosopher Marcos Nobre
analyzes the social and political roots of the election of Jair
Bolsonaro to the presidency of Brazil and shows how this process is
connected to the rise of new far-right movements threatening
democracy around the world. Nobre describes the rise of the
movement that elected Bolsonaro as a reactionary and
anti-democratic highjack of the democratic impulse unleashed by the
June 2013 uprisings, when millions of Brazilians took to the
streets to protest against a dysfunctional political system, and
frames the Brazilian case within the global crisis that exposed the
limits of a democracy based on the neoliberal consensus after the
2008 financial crisis. According to Nobre, the June 2013 uprisings
in Brazil was part of the global cycle of popular protests that
swept many countries between 2011 and 2013, reclaiming a new model
of democracy which could go beyond bureaucratic and technocratic
parties and cabinets. However, in Brazil, as in many other places,
this initial democratic impulse was captured by new far-right
movements which are now posing serious threats to democracy. This
book intends to collaborate in a change of attitude, both
theoretical and practical, that may help finding ways of fighting
the authoritarian threat to democracy as well as of deepening
democracy as a life form. The decline of neoliberalism not only did
not produce any effectively progressive realist alternative, but
also opened the way for a dispute over models of society in which
democracy itself has ceased to represent the primary reference in
disputes over the best way to regulate life in society. Democracy
is no longer self-evident, it is in danger. And the only way to
save it is by inventing new democratic practices to overcome the
limits imposed by institutional political systems no longer capable
of channeling the real struggles in the societies they claim to
represent.
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