Banca de DEFESA: LARISSA DE OLIVEIRA BARROS

Uma banca de DEFESA de MESTRADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : LARISSA DE OLIVEIRA BARROS
DATE: 24/10/2022
TIME: 14:00
LOCAL: meet
TITLE:

Foreign policy, high middle class and political crises in Brazil

PAGES: 117
BIG AREA: Ciências Humanas
AREA: Ciência Política
SUBÁREA: Política Internacional
SPECIALTY: Política Externa do Brasil
SUMMARY:

This work aims to examine the 2016 Brazilian democratic rupture process, addressing the
interests and political practices of the middle class, specifically its upper fraction, which
played a leading role in the pro-impeachment demonstrations. We seek to understand how this
fraction’s class positioning is driven in certain political situations, as well as decipher the
main moral and ideological motivations that led this social fraction to take the streets and
assume a political position against social interventionism and the foreign policy led by the
Worker’s Party governments. We assume the idea that the upper middle class is politically
and ideologically driven by meritocratic and Americanist principles – Americanism as an
ideology derived and radicalized from meritocratic ideology -, which political representations
are expressed, respectively, as the anti-corruption and anti-communist struggles. Thus, we
seek to examine the hypothesis that the upper middle class, regarding its ideology, is not
defined only by the moral justification built through meritocracy. Beyond that, we understand
that the defense of Americanism has an important role as a symbolic and element in the
Brazilian upper middle class’s ideology. Therefore, we will analyze Americanism’s role in the
social imaginary of this class fraction, that by craving for an "american way of life", rejects a
foreign policy defined by the rupture with a passive subordination to the United States.

BANKING MEMBERS:
Presidente - Interno ao Programa - 2187291 - TATIANA BERRINGER DE ASSUMPCAO
Membro Titular - Examinador(a) Interno ao Programa - 248.704.328-89 - ISMARA IZEPE SOUZA - UNIFESP
Membro Titular - Examinador(a) Externo à Instituição - SAVIO CAVALCANTE - UNICAMP
Membro Suplente - Examinador(a) Interno ao Programa - 2333293 - DIEGO ARAUJO AZZI
Membro Suplente - Examinador(a) Externo à Instituição - LEONARDO GRANATO - UFRGS