Past on Demand: Commercial and Political Uses of the Past by the Brazilian Extreme Right

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2025
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Bauer, Caroline Silveira < Departamento de História, Laboratório de Estudos sobre os Usos Políticos do Passado (Luppa), Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Avenida Bento Gonçalves 9500, 91509-900, Porto Alegre, Brasil>
de Amaral Maia, Tatyana <Departamento de História, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Rua São Francisco Xavier 524, 20550-900, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil>
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This paper aims to study the production and circulation of commercial and political uses of the past by the Brazilian extreme right, based on two videos about the Brazilian civil-military dictatorship: one by the Brasil Paralelo Company and one by the YouTuber Felipe Castanhari. It is argued that the narrative elaborated by both videos promotes a conservative public history through a memory politics and what we call the “past on demand.” “On demand” because the idea of historical truth is reduced to a choice made by the viewer watching the video on YouTube. We contribute to analyzing memory disputes about the dictatorship in virtual environments, linking content to form.
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https://doi.org/10.1515/iph-2025-0040
http://elea.unisa.it/xmlui/handle/10556/9148
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