Twelfth Global Studies Conference

Abstract

The context of globalization after the end of the Cold War helped to accelerate the discussion about the adoption, or not, of a pro-market and neoliberal agenda in Brazil, as well as about the Brazilian role in the emerging global governance. There were those who assumed that globalization was an irreversible imperative of the market as well as of global companies and that the state should adopt adjustment measures subdued to globalization conditions. On the other hand, there were also the growth of the discussion on ‘solidary globalization’ that promotes alternative public policies to enable the constitution of a society that suffers less from inequality concerning income distribution and can also advance in standard of living of social groups most affected by neoliberal reforms. As Immanuel Wallerstein puts it, we are between the spirit of Davos (The World Economic Forum) and the spirit Porto Alegre (The World Social Forum). The idea of this work is to map the globalization narratives in Brazil in the first two decades of the XXI century in order to understand how the globalization concept is perceived by the government. The idea is to analyze presidents FHC, Lula, Dilma, Temer, and the future president Bolsonaro’s discourses on the World Economic and Social Forums.