Impeachment! On behalf of the people

a discursive analysis of the Veja magazine in the Collor and Rousseff governments

Authors

  • Tathiana Senne Chicarino Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo
  • Rosemary Segurado Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo
  • Sebastián Ronderos University of Essex

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14195/2183-6019_12_8

Keywords:

Populism, people, Veja, impeachment, Collor, Rousseff

Abstract

Can populism be employed in an analytically productive way to understand the incidence of the media in complex processes of political dispute? By addressing the role of Veja magazine in the two impeachment processes in the Brazilian post-democratization period (Fernando Collor de Mello and Dilma Rousseff), this article demonstrates how media actors become central subjects in the discursive composition of political antagonisms. Understanding populism as an analytical category instead of a merely descriptive characterization offers a fresh research-agenda for comprehending the role of key enunciators within contemporary social and political challenges.

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Published

2021-04-20

Issue

No. 12 (2021): Media, Populism and Public Space: contemporary challenges

Section

Artigos

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