A linguagem contra a democracia : registros discursivos antigênero na política do Ministério da Mulher, da Família e dos Direitos Humanos

• Ano de defesa: 2022
• Autor(a) principal: Silva, Danillo da Conceição Pereira
• Orientador(a): Zacchi, Vanderlei José
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Pós-Graduação em Letras
• Palavras-chave em Português: Discursos; Identidade de gênero; Direitos humanos; Democracia; Semiótica; Ideologia; Moralidade (direito); Comunicação; Mídia social; Ofensiva antigênero; Neoconservadorismo; Discurso político; Registros discursivos
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: Anti-gender offensive; Neoconservatism; Human rights; Political speech; Discursive records
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: LINGUISTICA, LETRAS E ARTES::LETRAS
• Link de acesso: http://ri.ufs.br/jspui/handle/riufs/17346

At least since the last decade, liberal democracies around the world have experienced intense neoconservative action against institutional, legal and legislative frameworks in the field of gender equality, sexual diversity and sexual and reproductive rights (CORRÊA, 2008, 2018; PATERNOTTE; KUHAR, 2017). This phenomenon indicates broader processes of democratic erosion, linked to the radicalization of neoliberalism as economic rationality and as a mode of subjectivation (COOPER, 2017; BROWN, 2019). In Brazil, the rise of the extreme right to institutional power after the 2018 presidential elections meant an intensification of the antigender offensive (CORRÊA; KALIL, 2020). Given this scenario, this thesis aims to investigate the reframing of meanings about gender and sexuality in the grammar of Human Rights in the Brazilian State, based on the creation and performance of the Ministério da Mulher, da Família e dos Direitos Humanos (Ministry of Women, Family and Human Rights). Based on an analysis of communication between discursive events (AGHA, 2003; WORTHAM; REYES, 2014), the semiotic actions performed between different political events linked to the Ministry are investigated, through data generated from the analytical observation of its documentary production, from official communication situations and digital media, between January 2019 and May 2022. In this sense, two interpretive movements were fundamental. The first one consisted of producing a genealogical reading (FOUCAULT, 1976) of the discursive repertoires of secular and religious dynamics linked to the emergence of the anti-gender offensive, both national and international. The second focused on analyzing how socio-semiotic processes of clasp, relay and graft (GAL, 2018, 2019, 2021) acted in the incorporation of antigender discursive records (SILVESTEIN, 1987; AGHA, 2007) into the human rights language of the Brazilian State on gender and sexuality. The analyzes carried out allow us to argue that a considerable part of the processes engaged in the transformation of anti-gender policies into State policies in Brazil is centered on the performative effects of specific language operations (AUSTIN, 1962; BUTLER, 1993, 1997). They concern the incorporation of anti-gender discursive registers (AGHA, 2007; GAL, 2018, 2019, 2021) into the Ministry's performance. More than suppressing or censoring the language of human rights, what happened was the effectuation of a metapragmatic purification of this language, purging from it all forms of contamination with feminist repertoires on gender, sexuality, parenting and reproduction, regimented by orders of indexicality such as autonomy, self-determination, free sexual orientation and gender identity. The research results allow us to argue that the incorporation of anti-gender records into the human rights records of the Brazilian State, reflexively practiced by the Ministry of Women, Family and Human Rights, produced an indexical and political crisis around the repertoires on which public policies of human rights were built in the history of Brazilian democracy, especially in its relationship with social movements. In performative terms, the effects of these processes consisted of the institutionalization of social lack of protection, exposure to the violation of human rights and the unequal distribution of violence, as a result of the socio-semiotic action of the Brazilian State.