{"id":2647,"date":"2023-01-22T19:23:11","date_gmt":"2023-01-23T00:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/laclxs\/?post_type=tribe_events&p=2647"},"modified":"2023-03-16T13:41:34","modified_gmt":"2023-03-16T17:41:34","slug":"lagw-seminar-crafting-dominicanidad-citizenship-and-education-during-the-us-occupation-of-the-dominican-republic-1916-1924","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/laclxs\/event\/lagw-seminar-crafting-dominicanidad-citizenship-and-education-during-the-us-occupation-of-the-dominican-republic-1916-1924\/","title":{"rendered":"LAGW Seminar: Progressivism, Reaction, and the Politics of Local Capital in Neoliberal Brazil, 1996-2016"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Gilman Hall 308<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Johns Hopkins Latin America in a Globalizing World<\/strong> works in progress seminar welcomes Lucas Azambuja<\/strong><\/strong>, Sociology, JHU, to present:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Can Latin American capitalist classes take part in progressive projects against neoliberal austerity? Through the case of the Brazilian local bourgeoisie, this paper builds on dependency theory to develop an understanding of the specific politics that come with capitalists\u2019 participation in such movements. Focusing on the actions and discourses of leaders in Brazil\u2019s most powerful industrial association, the S\u00e3o Paulo Federation of Industry (Fiesp), I analyze local capital\u2019s involvement in the Workers\u2019 Party (PT) \u201cneodevelopmentalist\u201d project, which sought to alleviate the social costs of neoliberal reform through state intervention, industrial policies, and social spending. Data for this analysis comes from 1) Fiesp internal archives and publications; 2) Fiesp studies and informational materials; and 3) media reports. I demonstrate that while intra-capitalist class tensions and dislocation produced by market reform led Fiesp toward the PT\u2019s project in the late 1990s, the politics of this involvement distinguished local capital from other displaced constituencies. First, industrial leaders\u2019 involvement in this movement came with a reconfiguration of preexisting pro-market, pro-industry ideologies also compatible with neoliberal austerity. In turn, Fiesp leaders\u2019 turn to reaction in 2014, spurred by distributive struggles unleashed by the end of the commodity boom, was predicated on the same ideological repertoire deployed in support of the PT’s progressivism. Second, throughout their participation, industrial leaders remained committed to a modality of neoliberalism fitted to their realities as a \u201cdominated-dominant\u201d class in semi-peripheral Brazil. To conclude, I argue that alliance with progressive movements and<\/em> reaction are outcomes of industrial leaders\u2019 negotiation of global economic shifts and domestic struggles between traditional elites, the state, and popular sectors. I place this in relation to Vania Bambirra\u2019s contention that to ensure stable accumulation and order, industrial leaders will consistently choose [dependent] economic liberalism over developmentalism. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cPlease email Prof. Casey Lurtz (lurtz@jhu.edu<\/a>) for a copy of the paper and the Zoom link.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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