A direita que não tem medo de dizer seu nome: definições da direita em narrativas de estudantes universitários.

Abstract

After the ascension of neoliberal governments and the application of new economical and social policies, the world started to face an inrush of several left-wing movements that rebelled against the dismantling of welfare-state and of state-owned intervention policies. However, in some parts of the world and especially in Brazil, the mobilization vector is associated with other factors. The manifestations of June, 2013, caused the emergence of right-wing groups, rebelled against the party leader of a big central-left-wing coalition, the Workers Party. Since then, a new right-wing is ascending in the national political debate, mainly within universities, for excellence, a place for conflicts of ideas, mobilizing an aggressive rhetoric of antagonistic nature towards the predominant left-wing policies of the last years. The present study aims to understand how a right-wing student‟s militancy in a public northeastern university discursively shapes a self-identity, and what are the tensions, contradictions, and inconsistencies in this self-forged identity. Using the discourse analysis method, transcriptions of interviews made with members of this militancy were analyzed. Their self-definitions show the plural, complex, and contradictory character of the discourse of the militancy under study. They mention three political groups as constituents of the rightwing (conservationists, liberals, and libertarians), but only two are used as self-identification categories: conservationists and libertarians.