“A corrupção é da esquerda e eu não sou de esquerda”: a produção de sentidos de corrupção de um grupo bolsonarista durante o pleito de 2022

Abstract

Since 2013 there has been an increase in the political participation of far-right groups in several countries in Europe, North and South America, and specifically in Brazil. This fact led to the production of academic works on the various characteristics of this phenomenon. Regarding this dissertation, its theoretical perspective focuses on the production of meanings as exemplifications of dialogical and shared practices. The starting question of this research is: how are the meanings of corruption produced in a specific group? Through a qualitative approach, this dissertation sought to understand how the production of meanings of corruption by the Bahia Direita group occurs during and after the 2022 election. To carry out the investigation, theoretical research was carried out on the very new rights (Rosa, 2022) and the bolsonarism over the last decade. In parallel, two participant observations were carried out in two street demonstrations organized by the group. The possible conclusions point to a production of meanings of corruption that is shared by the group, in the sense that they attribute or classify only their political opponents as “corrupt”. There is also the understanding that it is possible to classify such a phenomenon based on moral disengagement (Bandura, 2016), however, without failing to recognize the agency of individuals and groups.