Latin American Brazil: coloniality, republican deficit and concerns about/for the future, from a decolonial perspective

• Autor(a) principal: Santos, Denise Tatiane Girardon dos
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista de Ciências do Estado (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufmg.br/index.php/revice/article/view/e26211
• topic: Populismo; Défice republicano; Brasil; Crise sociopolítica; Neomarginalização; Brasil; Populism; Republican deficit; Neomarginalization; Sociopolitical crisis; Populismo; Brasil; Déficit republicano; Neomarginalización; Crisis sociopolítica

The article aims to carry out a contemporary Brazilian socio-political approach, from the perspective of decoloniality and Latin American geopolitics. After national independence, the countries of the continent maintained colonialist characteristics, such as oligarchic governments and a marked deficit of popular participation in public life. The research problem that is intended to be answered is: are there current elements that configure the maintenance of coloniality in present-day Brazil? The possible hypothesis is that social classification based on race, inequality and the accentuated concentration of income, dependent development and recent legislative alterations in the labour and social security fields, resulting in the weakening of social rights, are indicative elements of neocolonialist practices in Brazil, but also in other Latin American countries, aggravated by the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. As a conclusion, it is pointed out that, in the socio-political field, the polarization and the demagogic populism of the current federal government project indicate that the advances of popular democratic participation are fragile; on the other hand, there are unprecedented social movements, organized by neo-marginalized groups, such as the Breque dos Apps, as a possibility of a new perspective of political awareness and social participation.