Conference on Social Media Communication and Right-Wing Populisms in Latin America and Beyond
Date: 10.12.2024 - 11.12.2024
Conference / symposium
Keywords: right-wing populism, social media, radicalisation, fake news
Format: hybrid
Language(s): Spanish, Portuguese, and English
Location: London, England
Event Fee: Free
Organizer(s):
The British Academy; Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil, Nayib Bukele in El Salvador and Javier Milei in Argentina are just a few paradigmatic cases which represent, to different degrees, the rise of populism, the advances of right-wing radicalism and the resurgence of extreme nationalism in Latin America in the last decade. We use the term "right-wing populism" to refer, as some Latin Americanists have done, to the ideological conservative elements and national-populist influences, namely the construction of political antagonisms, alongside the explicit praise and support of local capitalist systems. The cohesive element at the regional level is the post-colonial historical situation: Latin America's colonial roots engendered a profoundly hierarchical society whose dominant classes have felt threatened by a series of recent rights advances on the part of minoritised groups, responding in reactionary terms. It is also common for these leaders to advocate for greater military investment, as well as speak nostalgically of the patriarchal order and hardline security approaches that authoritarian regimes enacted in the past.
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