The affective politics of media in Bolsonaro Brazil

Since Jair Bolsonaro has become president of Brazil, old sentiments of white supremacy are on the rise. To articulate their protest, indigenous and black movements experiment with new forms of media communication. In essence, Brazil’s political discourse remains divided along colonial lines. Today, we talk with communication studies scholar Débora Medeiros about the affective politics of media in Bolsonaro Brazil.

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Colonialism is not only a thing of the past. It affects people all over the world, in the north and the south of our globe, every day. Colonialism can be many things: a structure of power, inequality, violence - but also a structure of feeling. In exciting conversations with academics, artists, journalists, and activists, we shed a critical light on colonialism's affective lives and afterlives. Together with them, we discuss the urgent struggles of our time and the different visions of how to decolonize our present. Find out more on our website: https://affect-and-colonialism.net