No. 4
“I will take care of this country”: The paradox of helplessness in Lula’s discourse amid the rise of the far right in Brazil
Bianca Alighieri Luz Monteiro and Lara Nasi
Reactionary Politics Working Papers No. 4
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Suggested citation:
Monteiro, B. A. L. and Nasi L. (2026). “I will take care of this country”: The paradox of helplessness in Lula’s discourse amid the rise of the far right in Brazil (Reactionary Politics Working Papers No. 4). Reactionary Politics Research Network. https://www.reacpol.net/workingpapers-4/.
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Bianca A. Luz Monteiro holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of Stavanger, Norway, where she researched Brazilian presidential elections through the lens of psychoanalytic political theory. She is currently a researcher at the Comunicação Eleitoral (CEL) Research Group at Federal University of Paraná, Brazil.
Lara Nasi holds a PhD in Communication Sciences and is an Associate Professor at the Centre for Languages and Communication, Federal University of Pelotas, Brazil.
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