Memetic Violence in Latin American Right Wing Populism

Dr Gabriel Bayarri Toscano is a Newton International Fellow at the Centre for Latin American & Caribbean Studies (CLACS) at the Institute of Languages, Cultures and Societies. His work draws on ethnographic fieldwork in physical and virtual spaces and aims to understand how discourses of Latin American right-wing populism operate. His current project as a NIF is called: "Discourse Polarisation: The Memetic Violence of the Latin American Right Wing Populisms".

 

Dr Bayarri holds a PhD in Anthropology and Sociology from Macquarie University (Sydney) and the Complutense University of Madrid (Summa Cum Laude and Extraordinary Prize). Over the last decade, Bayarri has worked in the European and Latin American context, specifically in Brazil, analysing its post-colonial structure of power at the root of the rise of the far-right in the country. He also has applied political experience working with the United Nations in Rio de Janeiro and as an elected City Councillor (Concejal) in the Autonomous Community of Madrid. Dr Bayarri is an editor at the Journal of Iberian and Latin American Research (JILAR) since 2020.