“Our Brazil Has Become a Mess”: Nostalgic Narratives of Disorder and Disinterest as a “Once-Rising Poor” Family from Recife, Brazil, Anticipates the 2018 Elections: Our Brazil has Become a Mess
“Our Brazil Has Become a Mess”: Nostalgic Narratives of Disorder and Disinterest as a “Once-Rising Poor” Family from Recife, Brazil, Anticipates the 2018 Elections: Our Brazil has Become a Mess
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“我们的巴西已经变得一团糟”：来自巴西累西腓的“曾经崛起的贫困家庭”对混乱和漠不关心的怀旧叙述，预计 2018 年选举：我们的巴西已经变得一团糟
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10.1111/jlca.12443
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2019
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Junge, Benjamin
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Junge, Benjamin
本文介绍了巴西东北部城市累西腓的一个大家庭的民族志记述，在2018年巴西大选之前的几个月里，极右翼政治家贾尔·博尔索纳罗当选巴西总统。这个家庭体现了这个被称为“新中产阶级”的行业--在左倾的工人党执政的14年里，估计有3500万人脱离了贫困线，但自那以来，他们的前景变得岌岌可危。从广泛的人种学田野调查中，我呈现了一系列人种学时刻，每个时刻都说明了关于即将到来的选举的非正式对话如何反映和影响家庭动态。在这些时刻涌现的是关于道德崩溃的叙事，对巴西1964-85年军事独裁的明显怀念，失去男子气概，威胁性欲，以及政治“僵尸”的再生。我提出了一系列关于巴西“以前的穷人”政治亲和力维度的理论主张，值得进行更深入的人种学研究。[巴西，选举，怀旧，性别，性取向]
This article presents an ethnographic account of an extended family from the northeastern city of Recife, Brazil, during the months prior to the 2018 elections in which hard‐right politician, Jair Bolsonaro, was elected to Brazil's presidency. The family exemplifies the sector contentiously referred to as the “new middle class”—the estimated thirty‐five million people who rose above the poverty line during fourteen years of rule by the left‐leaning Workers' Party, but whose prospects have since become precarious. Drawing from extended ethnographic fieldwork, I present a series of ethnographic moments, each illustrating how informal conversations about the coming elections both reflected and affected family dynamics. Emerging within these moments are narratives of moral disintegration, apparent nostalgia for Brazil's 1964–85 military dictatorship, lost masculinities, menacing sexualities, and the regeneration of political “zombies.” I advance a series of theoretical claims about dimensions of the political affinities of Brazil's “previously poor” that merit deeper ethnographic investigation. [Brazil, elections, nostalgia, gender, sexuality]