When Disintegration Becomes Political Desire

Understanding the far right in Brazil and beyond in Rodrigo Nunes’s Anatomy of Disintegration

Over the past decade, the rise of far-right movements has unsettled democracies across the globe, from Latin America and the United States to many countries in Europe. In his new book Anatomy of Disintegration: What Brazil Reveals About the Global Far Right (Haymarket 2026), Rodrigo Nunes argues that the rise ...
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When Disintegration Becomes Political Desire

Moonwalking in Brasilia

How Jair Bolsonaro creates the illusion of moving forward while sliding back

In Brazil's ongoing experiment with a far-right populist President, there is a gap between Jair Bolsonaro's performance in face-to-face rallies and on social networks and his minimal  accomplishments as a politician constrained by a complex constitutional network of institutions and norms.  Bolsonaro’s oral and written communication is filled with the hallmarks ...
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Moonwalking in Brasilia