The pink danger

deimopolitics in the Brazilian cisgender-heterosexual-military dictatorship

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https://doi.org/10.9771/peri.v3i20.53216

Abstract

This paper presents a reflection on the production of fear towards sexual and gender dissidents during the Brazilian military dictatorship (1964-1988). We aim to propose and defend the concept of “deimopolitics” as a governing paradigm linked to the technologies that produce the position-subject of fearful subjects (friends) and threatening subjects (enemies). We understand “deimopolitics” as a mode of power responsible for socially and historically selecting which bodies are to be feared and which bodies deserve compassion. To this end, we analyze the sexual and gender policies radicalized by the military dictatorship as both a strategy of social control and a justification for the social necessity of this dictatorial regime. By mobilizing fear and hope, intra-state instances incited the production of a position-subject citizen essential to the totalizing neoliberal-dependent nationalist project that shaped and constituted the sociopolitical framework (liberal democracy) that endures in Brazilian society.

 

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Author Biographies

Ruan Henrique Gomes Silva, Federal University of Bahia

Master's student in Teaching, Philosophy and History of Science (UFBA). Specialist in Teaching in Vocational and Technological Education (IFBaino). Degree in Biological Sciences (UEFS). Basic education teacher.

Rick Afonso-Rocha, State University of Santa Cruz

PhD in Letters: Languages and Representations (UESC), with partial research stay (sandwich doctorate at UAM Xochimilco, Mexico. Specialist in teacher training for the initial years of elementary school (SEB/MEC). Specialist in Teaching Methodologies for Portuguese Language and Literature in Basic Education (Unopar). Specialist in Labor and Social Security Law (Unopar). Bachelor of Laws (UESC). Lawyer (OAB/BA). Degree in Letters-Portuguese, in the Pedagogical Training modality (Unime). Portuguese language teacher at the Irmã Dulce State School (EJA prison), Pernambuco.

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Published

2024-12-04

How to Cite

Gomes Silva, R. H. ., & Afonso-Rocha, R. (2024). The pink danger: deimopolitics in the Brazilian cisgender-heterosexual-military dictatorship. Revista Periódicus, 3(20), 91–114. https://doi.org/10.9771/peri.v3i20.53216

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Vol. 3 No. 20 (2024): Non binarity: an emerging idendity in contemporary Brazil

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Free section

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