Populismo e ciências sociais brasileiras:: desafios teóricos e metodológicos

• Autor(a) principal: Gentile, Fabio
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng; por
• Título da fonte: Conhecer (Fortaleza)
• Texto Completo: https://revistas.uece.br/index.php/revistaconhecer/article/view/2674
• topic: populismo; era vargas; trabalhismo; bolsonarismo; populism; vargas era; aborism; Bolsonarism

Along the way to obtaining the most significant results in the relevant debate, this article provides an analytical, historico-critical, and methodological, though not exhaustive, overview of the uses (as well as the abuses) of the concept of populism in the Brazilian social sciences – given that the latter constitute a true laboratory for the Latin American appropriation of populism. If, on the one hand, the Brazilian debate incorporates all the strengths and weaknesses of the European and North American debates on populism, the adoption of this concept in Brazilian politico-social thinking, on the other hand, must meet some specific needs, starting from the early theories about the ‘amorphous’ people, between the second half of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, going through the analysis of the national-developmental cycle in the ‘Vargas Era’ (within the period from 1930 to 1964), until reaching the resumption of this concept in the last decades, in order to define the phenomenon named as ‘Lulism’ and, above all, the so-called ‘Bolsonarism,’ in the very 21st century.