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In recent years, analyses looking at the relationship between performative strategies, their effects and meanings, and the rise of the far right in Brazil, as well as in the aforementioned countries, have come to the fore. These ongoing investigations have attempted to cover, each from a different angle, a variety of aspects of the radical performances of this political field. In Brazil, the temporal scope of the research typically includes the June 2013 protests as a starting point, focusing on the impeachment campaign process against Dilma Rousseff, the rise of Bolsonarism before, during and after the 2018 election, and finally on 2023’s January 8.
To encompass this diversity of approaches and the complexity of the topic, we propose some intertwined and reiterated analytical frameworks, open to investigation and debate, such as the presence of violence, the fabrication of precariousness as a way of emulating a supposed authenticity, the connection between aesthetic and political performance, as well as reflections on restored behaviours and the aesthetics of surpassed boundaries.
These frameworks also take into account the attention economy that is overly present in the current ways in which the political agenda and performativity are propagated. They articulate many platforms of a supposedly decentralised organisation that smooths its way through the logic of social media, thus connecting different social media platforms and street protest performance, among other types of performance.
Furthermore, this Special Issue investigates theatre and artistic performances related to the topic of the far right and its strategies. Therefore, the following question represents the objective of this research proposal: in what ways can theatre, as a social form of knowledge, help us understand contemporary politics?
This question serves as the basis for this Call for Papers. Our purpose is to investigate and analyse episodes and performances of recent politics in Brazil and other territories that have experienced the rise of the far right. We are interested in reflections on the political acts of recent years within the framework of practices and theories arising from Performance and Theatre Studies. We hope to receive contributions from scientific, theoretical, and empirical research, with the purpose of expanding this dialogue.
