59 min listen
/297/ Bungazão 2022 (Clean & Godly) ft. Benjamin Fogel
FromBungacast
ratings:
Length:
62 minutes
Released:
Oct 20, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
On corruption & anti-corruption.
When Bolsonaro won in 2018, he rode a wave of anti-corruption sentiment. Now he's doled out billions in pork via a secret budget, but this doesn't seem to bother his supporters. What happened?
Benjamin Fogel, who studies the history of corruption in Brazil, comes on to discuss how a moralistic account of corruption has fortified the far right. How has corruption been used as a political weapon in the past, and how has it shifted from right to left and back again?
How are scandals made rather than born? And what would an anti-corruption politics that is emancipatory look like – rather than the predominant technocratic or moralistic form today?
Readings:
Against Anti-Corruption, Benjamin Fogel, Jacobin
From Anti-Politics to Authoritarian Restoration in Brazil, Alex Hochuli, Jacobin
When Bolsonaro won in 2018, he rode a wave of anti-corruption sentiment. Now he's doled out billions in pork via a secret budget, but this doesn't seem to bother his supporters. What happened?
Benjamin Fogel, who studies the history of corruption in Brazil, comes on to discuss how a moralistic account of corruption has fortified the far right. How has corruption been used as a political weapon in the past, and how has it shifted from right to left and back again?
How are scandals made rather than born? And what would an anti-corruption politics that is emancipatory look like – rather than the predominant technocratic or moralistic form today?
Readings:
Against Anti-Corruption, Benjamin Fogel, Jacobin
From Anti-Politics to Authoritarian Restoration in Brazil, Alex Hochuli, Jacobin
Released:
Oct 20, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (100)
/28/ Cinema & Hopelessness ft. Maren Thom: In which we discuss the Oscar nominees. Also lame battles over representation & why hopelessness has replaced catastrophism. by Bungacast