Impeaching Dilma Rousseff: the double life of corruption allegations on Brazil’s political right

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dc.contributor.authorAnsell, Aaronen
dc.date.accessioned2019-07-08T18:27:32Zen
dc.date.available2019-07-08T18:27:32Zen
dc.date.issued2018-08en
dc.date.updated2019-07-08T18:27:30Zen
dc.description.abstractThis essay analyses the 2016 congressional impeachment of Brazilian President, Dilma Rousseff, for alleged budgetary misconduct, as well as the related right-wing, ‘anti-corruption’ demonstrations calling for her ouster. I argue that Rousseff’s impeachment was facilitated by a conflation of two models of ‘corruption’ operating in Brazil, one legal-behavioural and the other religious-ontological. What happened in 2016 was a tacit conflation of these two models, along with their associated regimes for construing evidence of guilt. More specifically, congressional deliberations on Rousseff’s guilt allowed jurisprudential standards of evidence to be influenced by the evidential regime of the right-wing Fora Dilma (‘Out Dilma’) demonstrators. The demonstrators evinced Rousseff’s corruption through a semiotic process I term ‘cross-domain homology’, a process that I claim is intrinsically dangerous for democracy because it invites a state of exception to the norms girding representative institutions.en
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dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1080/14735784.2018.1499432en
dc.identifier.issue4en
dc.identifier.orcidAnsell, Aaron [0000-0001-6365-5168]en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/91213en
dc.identifier.volume59en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectDilma Rousseffen
dc.subjectCorruptionen
dc.subjectBrazilen
dc.titleImpeaching Dilma Rousseff: the double life of corruption allegations on Brazil’s political righten
dc.title.serialCulture, Theory, and Critiqueen
dc.typeArticle - Refereeden
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