Governamentalidade neoliberal e o fortalecimento da extrema direita estadunidense : o caso dos Oath Keepers

Abstract

The Liberal International Order has been one of the fundamental pillars of contemporary global politics, shaping relations among states, international institutions, and the norms that regulate international behavior. The widespread entrenchment of neoliberal logic demonstrates that its process of assimilation reaches diverse and profound political and social structures, showing that neoliberalism should be understood not merely as an economic model, but as a mode of economic management of social life. In this regard, the present project seeks to answer: in what ways has neoliberal governmentality contributed to the strengthening of the far right in the United States, specifically the Oath Keepers group? To this end, the methodology adopted was content analysis, in which the concepts proposed by Wendy Brown were employed as analytical categories, aiming to understand how elements of neoliberal governmentality are present in the discourses of the Oath Keepers, legitimizing their formation and concrete actions, such as their participation in the Capitol invasion. Thus, this research aims to identify elements within the group’s discourse that reflect Wendy Brown’s concepts of “death of the social,” “sense of belonging,” “despair,” and “oblation,” as well as to analyze how neoliberal governmentality is embedded in the group’s ideology and to understand how these ideas are mobilized to justify extremist actions.