In this talk, I will present the edited volume, The Rise of the Radical Right in the Global South (Routledge, 2023, co-edited with Tatiana Vargas-Maia), which offers a framework for understanding the emergence and consolidation of different radical right movements in Global South countries in the 21st century. Not long ago, India, Brazil and the Philippines, for example, were countries globally celebrated as emerging economies that consolidated vibrant democracies. Nonetheless, they never overcame structural problems, including economic inequality, social violence, cultural conservatism, and political authoritarianism. Conventional scholarship on the rise of the radical right tends to be centred around the Global North political economy. The book proposes a shift of focus in examining such a trend, adopting a view from the South. We argue that the radical right in the Global South should be analysed through specific lenses, considering national historical patterns of political and economic development and instability. This does not mean abandoning a transnational understanding of the radical right; rather, it calls for the opposite: we examine how the radical right is invented, modified, and resisted in specific regions of the globe, seeking to understand how the Southern experience can shed light on the rest of the world.
Rosana Pinheiro-Machado, anthropologist and social scientist, is a Professor in the School of Geography at the University College Dublin. She is the director of the Digital Economy and Politics Lab (DeepLap), an international hub for studying labour and politics in the twenty-first century Global South. She is the Principal Investigator of the project “Flexible Work, Rigid Politics in Brazil, India, and the Philippines”, funded by the European Research Council (ERC). Pinheiro-Machado is a member of the ministerial committee that fights extremism in Brazil (Ministry of Human Rights). Pinheiro-Machado has focused on emerging economies' political and economic transformation from an ethnographic perspective. Her most recent works, such as Humanising Fascists? and From Hope to Hate have examined authoritarianism in Brazil and the Global South. The edited volume, The Rise of the Radical Right in the Global South (with Vargas-Maia, Routledge, 2023), is her most recent publication on the topic. Pinheiro-Machado also acts as a columnist, featuring articles in The Washington Post, El País, The Intercept, etc.
This webinar will have one short presentation followed by a Q&A session, moderated by Eviane Leidig.
Link to the webinar: https://uio.zoom.us/j/67703826877.
The Global Perspectives on the Far Right webinar series
The webinar series Global Perspectives on the Far Right is hosted by C-REX and takes place every quarter in 2023. The webinars last for one hour from 15:00-16:00 CET, unless indicated otherwise due to the speakers’ time zone differences. This webinar series is a continuation from February 2021.
The regions covered are largely inspired by the new Manchester University Press book series, ‘Global Studies of the Far Right’, by founding co-editor and C-REX affiliate Eviane Leidig.
The webinar will have one short presentation followed by a Q&A session, moderated by Cas Mudde or Eviane Leidig.
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