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The political is the personal: political conflict within families in Brazil, 2018-2024
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The rise of contemporary right-wing movements has been followed by dramatic political conflicts in Brazil. Clashes within families are among the most severe. They display a surprisingly varied morphology, ranging from avoidance and rupture of social relations, well into open threats and violence. Their underlying motivations are not any less diverse, including economic interest, political loyalty, and libidinal aspects. This presentation elaborates on results from preliminary interviews on this subject, carried mostly in São Paulo, in preparation for my current research. Three conjectures are advanced and illustrated: (1) political strife within families can be understood in analogy to corresponding forms of intervention in the public arena; (2) conflict among kin is better understood as posing a new form of relatedness, not as dissolving existing social relations; (3) variations in the development of such conflicts (according to class, race, gender) are summarized in the functions kinship systems and household relations assume within different communities.
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These are the slides from a presentation given at the 88th MSS Annual Meeting held in Chicago on 03/14/2025.
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2025-03-14
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University of Kansas
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Political conflict, Kinship, Family, Brazil