Violence in political events: journalism and lawfare in the Lula case

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event, violence, journalism, politics, Lula.

Abstract

This paper examines the actions that led to the condemnation, arrest and impediment of the candidacy for the presidency in 2018 of the former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, taking as reference the concept of event understood as violence, as well as the dimensions of violence in politics. The events surrounding Lula have been identified as practices of lawfare, legal warfare with media participation that aims to undermine people or institutions. Theoretically, we take notions of events and the relations between politics and violence. As a methodology, in addition to conceptual review, we used a set of news that addressed the events involving Lula.

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Carlos Alberto Carvalho, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

Professor associado do Departamento de Comunicação Social da Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais. Bolsista produtividade PQ2 do CNPq

Maria Gislene Carvalho Fonseca, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

Doutora em Comunicação Social pela Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

Published

2019-08-18

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Dossiê | Dossier