MILITARY AND POLITICS IN BRAZIL

Authors

Keywords:

Military, Politics in Brazil, Brazilian History

Abstract

The author of the aforementioned work, along with the contributing co-authors, identifies that the Armed Forces have never been absent from Brazil’s political history. This enduring presence demonstrates that the military is neither apolitical nor politically disengaged. On the contrary, the military has historically occupied a central role in political power. With the establishment of the Republic, political disputes arose among various military factions—whose presence in the constituent congress once reached a quarter of its members—marking the beginning of a contradictory and lasting intervention in Brazilian politics, a proximity that continues to the present day.

Author Biographies

  • Marcelo de Oliveira Marques, Universidade Estadual de Goiás (UEG)

    Master's student in History at UEG Morrinhos. Specialization in Languages and Teaching Practices. Holds a degree in Languages – Portuguese and English – from the State University of Goiás (2015). Currently works as a teacher at three educational institutions: Faculdade Integra, Colégio Ágape, and Colégio Premium.

  • Rodrigo Jurucê Mattos Gonçalves, Universidade Estadual de Goiás (UEG)

    PhD, Master’s, and Bachelor’s degrees in History. Completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Graduate Program in History (PPGH) at the Federal University of Goiás (UFG) from 2018 to 2021. Professor in the History undergraduate program at the State University of Goiás (UEG) and in the Graduate Program in History: Culture and Society, Master’s level (PPGHIS/UEG). Research areas include the history of ideas and intellectuals; state, culture, and power; history of Republican Brazil; and Marxism. Author of the books The Organic Jurists of the Dictatorship and the Revista Brasileira de Filosofia (1964–1968) (2022), The Conservative Restoration of Philosophy: The Brazilian Institute of Philosophy and the Bourgeois Autocracy in Brazil (1949–1964) (2020), and Fetishist History: The Philosophical Hegemonic Apparatus — Brazilian Institute of Philosophy/Convivium (1964–1985) (2017). Co-organizer of the collection Conservative Times: Critical Studies on the Right and co-organizer of the book Intellectuals, Politics, and Social Conflicts (2020). Member of the international research networks Right-Wing Politics, History, and Memory (DHM) and Latin American and Caribbean Network of Gramscian Studies (Red Latinoamericana y Caribeña de Estudios Gramscianos). Leader of the Research Group History, Intellectuals, and Ideologies (CNPq).

  • Luciana de Souza Ramos, Universidade Estadual de Goiás

    University Professor in the Law Program at the State University of Goiás (UEG), South Campus – Morrinhos Headquarters. Professor in the Master's Program in the Graduate Program in History (PPGHIS) at the State University of Goiás (UEG), South Campus. Postdoctoral degree in Global Inequalities and Social Justice from UNB and FLACSO. PhD and Master’s degree in Constitutional Law and Theory of the State from the Faculty of Law at the University of Brasília (UNB). Specialist in Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure from the Brasília Institute of Public Law (IDP). Bachelor's degree in Law from the Catholic University of Salvador.

References

BARBOSA, Jefferson Rodrigues; GONÇALVES, Leandro Pereira; VIANNA, Marly de Almeida Gomes; CUNHA, Paulo Ribeiro da (org.). Militares e política no Brasil. 1. ed. São Paulo: Expressão Popular, 2018.

Published

2025-08-02

How to Cite

MILITARY AND POLITICS IN BRAZIL. (2025). Social and Environmental Law Journal, 3(1), I-VII. http://www.revista.ueg.br/index.php/redis/article/view/16851