Censorship and self-censorship in the teaching of history, sexuality and gender studies, in particular since the rise to power of Jair Bolsonaro

Kurzfassung/Abstract

First, Nina Schneider will concentrate on censorship of the military past. She will trace Jair Messias Bolsonaro’s military roots and his view on the military regime. She then looks at a few concrete attempts of the Bolsonaro government to dismantle human rights and memory institutions and practices related to military regime. Finally, she will raise the complex question of whether Bolsonaro’s rise is the result ultimately failed Brazilian memory policies. The reasons for Bolsonaro’s rise are certainly more complex given that powerful lobby groups benefit from his presidency, but, Schneider will argue, his popularity at minimum demonstrates that few Brazilian voters have really engaged with the history of the Brazilian dictatorship.