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Upsetting the Double Movement? Elite Schisms and Bolsonaro's Brazil in the Context of Global Authoritarian Capitalism

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The brazen political antics and mystifying logics accompanying the contemporary rise of authoritarianism have garnered much interest in academic and popular media. A key question is how to make sense of a politics that seems nonsensical? Using the example of Brazilian governance under Bolsonaro, we combine and build on elite studies, authoritarian neoliberalism, and the double movement literature to address this question. We argue for the conceptualisation of an "elite schism" where a "new elite" is emerging to obfuscate an increasingly co-constitutive and mutually destructive double movement. In defiance of well-established elite etiquette, many of these "new elites" demolish socioecological protections with reckless abandon. We then show how this development upsets double movement dynamics to argue that the contemporary authoritarian trend is part of a broader reshuffling of social relations as market expansion pushes societies closer to socioecological collapse. We conclude by highlighting potential opportunities for resistance.

double movement, populist authoritarian neoliberalism, new elite, Brazil, Bolsonaro

Sierra Deutsch、Bram Buescher、Robert Coates、Laila Sandroni

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Department of Geography & University Research Priority Programme on Global Change and Biodiversity, University of Zuerich, Switzerland and Sociology of Development and Change, Wageningen University, The Netherlands

Sociology of Development and Change, Wageningen University, The Netherlands and Department of Geography, Environmental Management and Energy Studies, University of Johannesburg, South Africa

Sociology of Development and Change, Wageningen University, The Netherlands

University of Brasilia, Brazil and Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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2025

Antipode: A radical journal of geography

Antipode: A radical journal of geography

ISSN:0066-4812
年,卷(期):2025.57(3)
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