The political Eden: complexifying Brazil's complex good positioning or an analysis of Bolsonaro's speech at the 74th United Nations General Assembly.
critical discourse analysis; Amazonia; Norman Fairclough; nationalism; Brazilian external positioning.
This paper carries out a critical discourse analysis of the speech given by Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro at the 74th United Nations General Assembly, focusing on how the Amazon was discursively used to evoke themes of nationalism, changing Brazil's international positioning. The analysis, conducted according to the critical discourse analysis methodology developed by Norman Fairclough, relies on the theoretical basis of the nationalist conceptions elaborated by John Breuilly and the myth of the paradisiacal vision woven by Sérgio Buarque de Holanda, as well as the concept of the “State of complex good international positioning” developed by Feliciano de Sá Guimarães. The paper aims to observe the strategies and impacts of the discursive use of the Amazon for political purposes, as well as the contexts and consequences for Brazilian foreign policy, given that the discursive rescue of Brazilian patriotism affected not only the country's internal structure, but also its international relations.