Artigo Acesso aberto

“It happened in brazil too”: the radical right’s capture of networks of hope

2019; Sorbonne Nouvelle University; Issue: 92 Linguagem: Inglês

10.4000/cal.9877

ISSN

2268-4247

Autores

Camilo Negri, Rebecca Lemos Igreja, Simone Rodrigues Pinto,

Tópico(s)

Politics and Society in Latin America

Resumo

Introduction “It happened in brazil too”. This is how, rather emphatically, Manuel Castells begins his afterword to the Brazilian edition of his book, “Networks of Outrage and Hope: Social Movements in the Internet Age”, first published in 2013. Even if explicitly uncertain of the possible results of that year’s demonstrations occurring in Brazil, the sociologist identifies digital networks as creating autonomy and providing a path from individuals’ hope to outrage. In that moment, a mass of ...

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