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Delinking rhetorics of neoliberalism: An analysis of South American leftist presidents’ speeches

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posted on 2018-08-21, 10:49 authored by Adriana Angel, Luis Miguel López-Londoño

We analyze the so-called Socialism of the twenty-first century in which nine South American governments turned to the left over the last 15 years. This South American socialist turn is seen as a delinking from the logics of dependency and pure neoliberalism. To explore the rhetorics that underlie this delinking process, we conducted both a macroanalysis and an intradiscursive rhetorical analysis of the inauguration and most significant speeches of all of the leftist South American presidents elected after 1999. We claim that a common critique of neoliberalism underlies the South American presidents’ speeches, which manifests through specific rhetorics concerning participatory democracy, social inclusion, and environmental protection. When they became transnational, these delinking rhetorics crafted a decolonial critique that calls for more indigenous models of development.

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This work was supported by Universidad de Manizales [Grant Number A0601X0415].

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