Recientemente se publicó el libro: Ultra and Extreme Right-Wing in Latin America. Flight Lines, Resistances and Appropriation editado por Diego Rivera López, Jùlio Antonio Bonatti Santos, Fabián Bustamante Olguín. Esta publicación contó con la colaboración de Ana Aymá para estudiar el caso argentino: The Discourse of the Current Right in Argentina: Articulations and Reconfigurations.
About this book
This book examines the radicalisation of political discourse in Latin America, where historical grievances and media ecosystems shape social imaginaries and political practices. It is organised into four parts. Part I: Introduction sets the research context. Part II: Critical Apparatus provides the analytical foundation, addressing the theologisation of politics, hate discourses, and subjectivation processes. Part III: Case Studies offers detailed analyses of Argentina’s libertarian populism and anti-statist narratives, Peru’s far-right manipulation of historical memory and religious rhetoric, Chile’s post-social uprising dynamics, marked by nationalist resurgence and institutional conservatism, and Brazil’s denialism and media spectacle during the Bolsonaro era. Finally, Part IV: Epilogue reflects on the broader implications for discourse analysis and sociopolitical inquiry. This book dissects the linguistic mechanisms behind these phenomena and poses critical questions for further research. Its interdisciplinary approach will appeal to experts in sociology, political science, and discourse studies, fostering a deeper understanding of Latin America’s complex sociopolitical landscape.
Sobre este libro
Este libro examina la radicalización del discurso político en América Latina, donde los agravios históricos y los ecosistemas mediáticos configuran los imaginarios sociales y las prácticas políticas. Está organizado en cuatro partes. La Parte I: Introducción establece el contexto de la investigación. La Parte II: Aparato Crítico proporciona la base analítica, abordando la teologización de la política, los discursos de odio y los procesos de subjetivación. La Parte III: Estudios de caso ofrece análisis detallados del populismo libertario y las narrativas antiestatistas de Argentina, la manipulación de la memoria histórica y la retórica religiosa por parte de la extrema derecha peruana, la dinámica posterior al levantamiento social de Chile, marcada por el resurgimiento nacionalista y el conservadurismo institucional, y el negacionismo y el espectáculo mediático de Brasil durante la era Bolsonaro. Por último, la Parte IV: Epílogo reflexiona sobre las implicaciones más amplias para el análisis del discurso y la investigación sociopolítica. Este libro disecciona los mecanismos lingüísticos que subyacen a estos fenómenos y plantea cuestiones críticas para futuras investigaciones. Su enfoque interdisciplinario será de interés para especialistas en sociología, ciencias políticas y estudios del discurso, y contribuirá a una comprensión más profunda del complejo panorama sociopolítico de América Latina. (Traducción con DeepL)
Abstract. The Discourse of the Current Right in Argentina: Articulations and Reconfigurations
This work emerges from the research interest in discourses of the new right-wing within the framework of a collective project that combines research on discourse, gender and identity construction processes in the current neoliberal stage from the perspective of Critical Discourse Studies. In line with what is happening on a global scale, in Argentina we can see how different expressions of the new right-wing are increasing and radicalizing their participation in the contemporary public sphere, within party politics—in the form of electoral victories or public repercussions—and into non-partisan organizations or from public figures support in the media ecosystem. A significant portion of the bibliography coincides in pointing out the complexity of the characterization of this phenomenon given its new rhetorical forms intertwined with its historical continuities, its fluctuating and unstable ideological content and its various conservative and neoliberal articulations that give rise to extreme and ultra-right expressions that are shifting the boundaries of the “sayable”. Given this scenario, we aim to investigate these displacements in the Argentine case, using critical discourse analysis tools. The analysis is based on a corpus of interventions by referents from the right-wing political coalitions Juntos por el Cambio and La Libertad Avanza, which includes heterogeneous discursive varieties into the discursive conjuncture that was generated into the context of the Covid-19 pandemic and the 2021 legislative elections. As prominent features can be mentioned a series of intertwined discursive strategies that involve normalization processes based on: the value rhetoric of mistreatment and violence; the systematic construction of an enemy otherness as “the other” of society based on the recurrence of the topos of threat; and the use of legitimization resources for exclusionary actions including the mythopoeic narrative of the past of conquest and extermination of the nineteenth century, which is cited as a model, the denial of crimes against humanity during the dictatorship and the attacks on human rights claims.