An Analysis of Geopolitical and Geoeconomic Discourse in Official Pronouncements of the Bolsonaro Government (2019-2020) for South America
Discourse Analysis; Bolsonaro Government; Geopolitics; South America
Discourse Analysis (AD) as a theoretical-methodological proposal of this dissertation is a technique or a set of procedures that aim to qualitatively clarify the intentions or omissions of the discourses. The effects of the meanings of the discourses linked to the historical- sociocultural context consolidate ideological structural positions that are mediated by language as a factor in the construction of the discourse to transform realities in the social world. We sought to bring “to light” the “deviations” of discursive speeches, contextualize them, unravel them, try to understand the signs of the said and unsaid and compare them with the discursive formations that nourish the pronouncements. In order to try to understand this intention of the Jair Bolsonaro Government and obtain some conjunctural answer that justifies the hypothesis that there is a strategic policy in the geopolitical and geoeconomic discourses for South America, some research elements were outlined that could answer the following question: in To what extent do geopolitical discourses in official pronouncements, under the diplomacy of the Bolsonaro government, reveal a geopolitical and geoeconomic strategy of power for South America? For the construction of the corpus, we delimited the pronouncements and documents that occurred during the Bolsonaro government in the years 2019 and 2020, the first two years of government. The clippings are based on the written texts of the official pronouncements of the President, the Vice-President and the Minister of Foreign Affairs (Chancellor), whose data sources will be the official websites of the government and the MRE. From them, in-depth analysis (corpus of analysis) was elaborated in order to establish the socio, historical, geographic and ideological character of geopolitical and geoeconomic discourses. For the corpus of analysis, the main Brazilian newspapers and magazines (O Globo, Folha de São Paulo, Correio Braziliense, Veja, Época and Istoé), dissertations and theses and books relevant to the theme were researched and analyzed.