The risk of irreversible damages: Brazilian creative economy in the first year of jair bolsonaro’s administration
International Journal of Development Research
The risk of irreversible damages: Brazilian creative economy in the first year of jair bolsonaro’s administration
Received 17th September, 2019; Received in revised form 11th October, 2019; Accepted 28th November, 2019; Published online 31th December, 2019
Copyright © 2019, Dr. Diego Santos Vieira de Jesus. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
The aim is to analyse how Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro’s administration dealt with issues related to creative economy during the first year of the president’s term (2019). The main argument indicates that the gradual weakening of specific bodies dedicated to culture and creative economy since 2015 has reached the top in the first year of Bolsonaro’s administration. Strategic decisions related to such economy were emptied and abandoned with the end of the Ministry of Culture, and cultural issues were relegated to the background or diluted into other federal government bodies, such as the Ministry of Citizenship and, more recently, the Ministry of Tourism, which lack the specific knowledge of the particularities of cultural and creative demands.
