Third world aspects of Brazil: how to constitute an hegemony in the Brazilian cultural field - 1958-1990

Abstract

The article examines how the concept of third-world and third world ideology are introduced and developed in Brazil. It demonstrates that the almost all of the social sciences and humanities are influenced by this sensibility of the third world, occupying a site of growing importance in the Brazilian intellectual field between the decades of the 1960s and 1980s. Finally, the work establishes the stages of this process, the most relevant authors and the more elaborate and original ideas.