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All publications attributed to the PACT: Brazil subproject.

Covid Conspiracies in Brazil: The Old Communist Spectre Revisited

Discussing some of the conspiracy rumors and theories that circulated during the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil, this essay explores the fear of communism as a recurrent conspiracist trope in the country’s recent history. Unlike many conspiracy theories that can be described as bottom-up and suspicious of the national government, the Brazilian case shows the opposite tendency: the strategic use of conspiracist narratives to reinforce the powers that be.

Hatzikidi, Katerina. “Covid Conspiracies in Brazil: The Old Communist Spectre Revisited.” Culturico, 24 Mar. 2022, https://culturico.com/2022/03/26/covid-conspiracies-in-brazil-the-old-communist-spectre-revisited/.

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Pierre Ostiguy, Francisco Panizza and Benjamin Moffitt (Eds.). Populism in Global Perspective: A Performative and Discursive Approach

Hatzikidi, Katerina. “Pierre Ostiguy, Francisco Panizza and Benjamin Moffitt (Eds.), Populism in Global Perspective: A Performative and Discursive Approach (Abingdon: Routledge, 2021)” Journal of Latin American Studies, vol. 54, no. 1, 2022, pp. 175–177., doi:10.1017/S0022216X22000128.

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