O Brasil nos cartazes das manifestações de rua (2013-2016).

Abstract

It is a fact of the historical nature of the relationship between political power and those subjected to it, that rights are not granted nor changes are achieved unless the governors feel pressured by the claims of the ones governed. Thus, acknowledging riots as a political resource and uprising as one of the only forms of bargaining the population has available, this paper intends to understand popular riots in the context of the 21st century, accepting it as a symptomatic representation of the current democratic system’s debility from it’s place in the postmodern global capitalism ruled by neoliberalism. In this sense, it is proposed hereby to discuss the problem there is in the lack of an agenda and a political mediation on these protests, especially in the second decade of the 21st century, in order to analyze how that lack promotes two central dangers: an emptying of possibilities of results, and the creation of a void whose potential can be coopted by devious groups. For the case study of choice regarding these dangers, this paper points the June Journeys that happened in the year of 2013, in Brazil, as seen as the opening space of a process that has led to a discursive-ideological shift, culminating in the coup that deposed Dilma Rousseff from the presidency. This, largely propelled by the tremendous profusion of divergent topics that were taken at the same time to the streets, that is, the absence of a fixed and objective agenda of concretes demands. This research was carried out through a survey of the photographic records of the event, the documents that allowed us to think about the existence of the aforementioned shift as from the messages displayed on the posters lifted by the protesters who took over the country’s urban scenery between the years 2013 and 2016.