Specialities and rhetorics of sovereignty

the 2018 brazilian presidential election

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5418/ra2023.v19i38.16660

Keywords:

soberania, território, retórica da soberania, espacialidade da soberania, Estado

Abstract

The relationship between State and territory has been a pillar of Political Geography since its founding as a subfield of Geography and offers a way of spatially thinking about sovereignty. Based on John Agnew’s important contribution Globalization and Sovereignty (2018) and on several texts published after his germinal work in 1994, this article seeks to corroborate that territory is a possible way of considering the spatial dimension of sovereignty, but it is not the only way. To this end, this article uses the Iramuteq software to analyze twelve hours of speech related to sovereignty in the 2018 Superior Electoral Court (TSE) judgment on the candidacy of former President Lula da Silva. This article argues that geopolitics is constructed with various rhetorical frameworks about sovereignty, according to contemporary national and international political contexts, and seeks to demonstrate that the discourse on sovereignty allows and creates conditions for the spatial exercise of political power.

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Author Biography

Daniel Abreu de Azevedo, Universidade de Brasília (UnB)

Professor Adjunto do Departamento de Geografia da Universidade de Brasília. Trabalha com a relação espaço político e democracia, e especial interesse em Geografia Eleitoral. Graduado, mestre e doutor em Geografia Humana pela Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. Sob orientação da professora Dra. Iná Elias de Castro, trabalhou na tese de doutorado com o título “Democracia participativa como
um sofisma: uma interpretação geográfica da democracia” e realizou estágio em doutoramento
em Washington D.C. (American University - Centro de Estudos sobre América Latina) e na Cidade do México (UNAM - Departamento de Geografia). Concluiu pós-doutorado na Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.

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Published

2023-07-27

How to Cite

Abreu de Azevedo, D. (2023). Specialities and rhetorics of sovereignty: the 2018 brazilian presidential election. Revista Da ANPEGE, 19(38). https://doi.org/10.5418/ra2023.v19i38.16660