Abstract

KIELING, Camila Garcia  and  ROPERO, José Manuel Peláez. Media Debates on Agrarian Reform in Contexts of Institutional Breakdown: 1932-1936 in Spain and 1964 in Brazil. RLEC/LJCS [online]. 2022, vol.9, n.1, pp.187-209.  Epub May 01, 2023. ISSN 2184-0458.  https://doi.org/10.21814/rlec.3923.

This article aims to develop a comparative analysis of press discourses concerning the agrarian reform issue in two critical events that marked the 20th century: the failed attempt of a coup d’état that triggered the Spanish Civil War in 1936 and the 1964 civil-military coup in Brazil. The study objects are journalistic texts published by the monarchic periodical ABC in Spain and the Brazilian newspaper O Estado de S. Paulo on the agrarian reform. That was a central proposal of the reformist governments in question and, consequently, a critical media discursive axis. Within a methodological proposal for articulating the fields of communications and history, we attempt to demonstrate the interconnected plates that help understand the two events: the political environment of antagonistic pluralism, historical consciousness, the coordinated discourse of the mainstream media, and finally, the conception of change as a media event boosted by an ideology of public transparency in this type of discourse.

Keywords : press; agrarian reform; Brazil; Spain; 20th century.

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