Banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO: Lays Bárbara Vieira Morais

Neoliberalism in practice: Latin America and explanatory limitations of the category

neoliberalism, Latin America, imperialism, State, democracy

Seeking to contribute to analyzes of Political Science that move away from an anglo-euro-centered methodology and theory, this research is based on the different relationships between neoliberalism and its political consequences that occur in contexts of dependence and subalternization in global power relations. Without to discard the different currents built on the polysemy of the neoliberalism category, we chose to work on its definition in terms of a globalist project centered on creating institutions, a body of thought and a mode (among divers) of governance and regulation. For this, we will dialogue especially with the canadian historian Quinn Slobodian. Our objective is to analyze the adequacy and limits of this understanding in the production of realistic explanations for the contemporary Latin American scenario. As well as identify and present readings of the region about the phenomenon. The hypothesis to be worked on is that neoliberalism, understood as this body of thought and mode of regulation of a globalist character and centered on creating institutions that protect the market, proves to be limited in understand he category in your real practice, more specifically as the neoliberalism takes place in Latin America. However, these limitations could be remedied, on a large extent, if the debate about imperialism were included in the analysis. The methodological choice is a combination of in-depth literature review, constitutive causality and reconstructive method.