When forgetting is dangerous : transitional justice, collective remembrance and Brazil’s shift to far-right populism

dc.contributor.advisor Panepinto, Alice
dc.contributor.author Burkle, Eduardo : Monteiro
dc.date.accessioned 2020-10-06T13:57:59Z
dc.date.available 2020-10-06T13:57:59Z
dc.date.issued 2020
dc.description Second semester University: Queen's University, Belfast. Awarded thesis 2019/2020 en_US
dc.description.abstract Transitional justice measures such as, inter alia, trials, truth commissions and institutional reforms or a lack thereof have an impact on how societies deal with the past and help to shape the collective memories of these societies and their different groups. The aim of this paper is to analyze the Brazilian transition to democracy and how the lack of implementation of transitional justice measures, or their shortcomings, can explain the non-existence of a consensus towards its authoritarian past. By not having a shared understanding of its own past we argue that the Brazilian democracy is prone to revive its authoritarian past, as shown by the recent wave of autocratization it suffers. The rise of far-right populism in Brazil is linked to a dictatorship nostalgia, embodied in President Jair Bolsonaro and the intense presence of the military in his government. Without the proper reckoning with its past the Brazilian democracy display an inherent weakness associated to its amnesia towards the military Dictatorship (1964- 1985). Keywords: Transitional Justice, Collective Memory, Brazilian Military Dictatorship, Populism en_US
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11825/1754
dc.identifier.uri http://dx.doi.org/10.25330/657
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.relation.hasversion Global Campus Europe-EMA awarded thesis 2019/2020: http://doi.org/20.500.11825/2347
dc.relation.ispartofseries Global Campus Europe (EMA) theses 2019/2020;
dc.subject transitional justice en_US
dc.subject Brazil en_US
dc.subject collective memory en_US
dc.subject dictatorship en_US
dc.subject populism en_US
dc.subject authoritarianism en_US
dc.subject truth commissions en_US
dc.subject democratisation en_US
dc.title When forgetting is dangerous : transitional justice, collective remembrance and Brazil’s shift to far-right populism en_US
dc.type Thesis en_US
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