Branca Falabella Fabrício
Biographic Data
| ID | 739970 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Branca Falabella Fabrício |
| GIVEN NAMES | Branca Falabella |
| FAMILY NAME | Fabrício |
| SIGNATURE | FABRÍCIO B F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0006-9924 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Scaling and indexing sexual anxiety in the Brazilian contemporary extreme right
In this article, we discuss the contemporary phenomenon of the extreme right and argue that it involves the friction between the chronotopes of Colonial Modernity and those of the libertarian forces from the 1960s and 1970s. We also emphasize that this phenomenon can also be understood as social fascism. This chronotopic confrontation, which centrally includes social networks and voracious capitalism, is the effect of biopower and the tactical pr…
The encruzilhada as a timespace for decolonizing (socio)linguistics
Plotting hope: Inverse stories and scalar reversals of a health crisis
This article investigates the discursive dimensions of the Zika epidemic in Brazil. It focuses on the ways the sanitary crisis is talked about by mothers of babies born with microcephaly-a Zika-related syndrome. We examine the situated ways these mothers refuse the biomedical and bureaucratic scripts that are handed down to them by engaging with their new realities and fostering hope against the grain of bleak prognosis. To do so, we scrutinize a…
Subjetividades-nada”, linguagem e aprendizagem: Precisamos de atrapalhar as significâncias
Neste estudo exploramos os impactos danosos de compreensões das línguas como categorias puras, sobretudo para grupos marginalizados (Bauman; Briggs 2003; Makoni; Pennycook, 2007; MOITA LOPES, 2013). Em diálogo com narrativas produzidas por Filhos, uma aluna de um curso pré-universitário voltado para jovens e adultos de classes populares, refletimos sobre os efeitos perfomativos de visões modernistas das línguas, especialmente da língua inglesa. N…
Resistência Política Sem Fogo Amigo: Por Uma Ideologia Linguística Das Misturas Em Nossa Revolta
Testemunhamos, na atualidade, a invasão da cultura beligerante em diversas esferas da vida social, inclusive, na política. Com o populismo de direita se alastrando em escala mundial, um olhar atento à maneira como a linguagem está sendo operacionalizada por líderes políticos e seus/suas apoiadores/as se faz necessário (HODGES, 2020). O mesmo pode ser afirmado em relação às crenças linguísticas que orientam as nossas interpretações sobre as formas…
Language, gender and sexuality in 2021
This year-in-review addresses the way violence and civil unrest manifested intensely in 2021, at the two-year mark of the Covid-19 pandemic, by inspecting the local dramas various authors re-narrate through the lenses of gender, sexuality and their semiotic performances. Three focal points organise the literature recontextualised here. First is the study of the lingering effects of cisheteropatriarchy in different contexts. Second, while forging …
Living memories of the changing same: Rio's linguistic landscape at the crossroads of time and race
This article questions the time of white modernity based on historical periodization and sequential progression, arguing for a more multifaceted approach to time and space in linguistic landscapes (LL). It rethinks the concept of chronotope by examining effects of the African diaspora in Brazil. The experience of radical uprooting it promoted fuses spatiotemporal dimensions that operate in complementary directions. On the one hand, a necrotope se…
Us for Ourselves”: Enregistering and De-Escalating Coronavirus Under Nervous Conditions
In this paper, we explore how attention to language and communication has been one of the strategies to combat the pandemic and foster health justice in the deprived areas of the city. To investigate such aspect, we draw on the conceptions of enregisterment, de-escalation and orders of indexicality. We focus on practices of pragmatic survival enacted by Maré Mobilization Front
A scalar approach to the circulation of virulent affects on the web
This paper develops a scalar view of affect, with a focus on the intense animosity often found in digital encounters. It argues that affect is an important dimension of sense-making and sustains this standpoint both theoretically and empirically, by resorting to a linguistic-anthropological understanding of scale and by analyzing the hectic transit of texts in viral phenomena on the Internet. As a case in point, it analyses a long-lasting interac…
Transidiomaticity and transperformances in Brazilian queer rap: Toward an abject aesthetics
Queer rap has been shining in the homophobic world of hip-hop lately, especially in the contemporary New York music scene. Considered by many as the new kids on the block, queer rappers have been breaking down mainstream ways of composing, delivering and enacting rap tunes by working on more outwardly feminine performances characterized by ambivalence, hybridity and defiance. In this paper, we focus on how Rico Dalasam, a contemporary Brazilian r…
Discourse circulation in news coverage of the Zika virus outbreak: Colonial geopolitics, biomediatization and affect
Viagem Textual Pelo Sul Global: Ideologias Linguísticas Queer E Metapragmáticas Translocais
Com base na análise da reentextualização de um vídeo profissional brasileiro de funk em um vídeo caseiro nas Filipinas, feito por meninos queer, este artigo discute a ideologia linguística e as projeções metapragmáticas translocais que tal trajetória textual enseja. Pautado em teorizações queer, o trabalho explora essa movimentação translocal utilizando os construtos teórico-analíticos de indexicalidade, circulação de discursos, campos de comunic…
Does the picture below show a heterosexual couple or not?’
In this paper we investigate an intimate encounter in 'Life in the Closet', a blog fed by a Brazilian undergraduate, N.B., between 2011 and 2014. As a case in point, we focus on how a YouTube video advert called 'The Man Man' is successively entextualised in the blog, by following its re-entextualisation into posts made by the blogger himself and other participants. We explore this digital event as an instance of several chained reperformances, o…
Mobility and Discourse Circulation in the Contemporary World: The Turn of the Referential Screw
In this paper I call into question the referential paradigm, drawing on the conceptual framework developed by contemporary Anthropology, Linguistic Anthropology, Sociolinguistics and Applied Linguistics. I call for the urgent problematization of the so-called referential metaphysics while arguing that constructs such as entextualization and indexicality can shake the strong representational tradition in the field of language studies - a tradition…
TV-school hybrid literacy practices as sites for making another logic possible: Voicing Contrasts That Promote Gender and Sexuality Trans-Experiences
Considering the relationship between media and sense-making in Brazil, the purpose of this article is to examine an interventionist collaborative ethnography in a specific literacy context – history classes in a Brazilian state school, in which the classroom teacher, two researchers, and 5th grade students conjointly try to decenter commonsense views of gender and sexuality. By making ample recourse to media texts and to radical hybridity, they w…
Queering Paradigms IV: South-North Dialogues on Queer Epistemologies, Embodiments and Activisms
Discurso como arma de guerra: Um Posicionamento Ocidentalista Na Construção Da Alteridade
O processo de ocidentalização do mundo tem sido compreendido como movimento constituidor da Modernidade em termos de uma tentativa totalizadora de universalizar uma lógica européia. Tal perspectiva produziu uma forma de construção de narrativas imaginárias sobre a alteridade e subjetividades alinhadas ao projeto colonial ocidental. O objetivo do presente trabalho é, partindo de Foucault, da Análise do Discurso Crítica e de teorias pós-coloniais, …
Mulheres emocionalmente descontroladas: Identidades Generificadas Na Mídia Contemporânea
Vários estudos sobre a caracterização da identidade de gênero na mídia têm sinalizado que o eixo bipolar masculino-feminino vem orientando historicamente as narrativas identirárias, ao diferenciar homens e mulheres em razão de sua anátomo-fisiologia. Apontam ainda para o fortalecimento, na contemporaneidade, de discursos cientificistas explicativos do comportamento humano, alimentados pelos avanços tecnológicos e pelo mercado. Tendo em vista esse…
Living memories of the changing same: Rio's linguistic landscape at the crossroads of time and race
This article questions the time of white modernity based on historical periodization and sequential progression, arguing for a more multifaceted approach to time and space in linguistic landscapes (LL). It rethinks the concept of chronotope by examining effects of the African diaspora in Brazil. The experience of radical uprooting it promoted fuses spatiotemporal dimensions that operate in complementary directions. On the one hand, a necrotope se…
A scalar approach to the circulation of virulent affects on the web
This paper develops a scalar view of affect, with a focus on the intense animosity often found in digital encounters. It argues that affect is an important dimension of sense-making and sustains this standpoint both theoretically and empirically, by resorting to a linguistic-anthropological understanding of scale and by analyzing the hectic transit of texts in viral phenomena on the Internet. As a case in point, it analyses a long-lasting interac…
Discourse circulation in news coverage of the Zika virus outbreak: Colonial geopolitics, biomediatization and affect
Language, gender and sexuality in 2021
This year-in-review addresses the way violence and civil unrest manifested intensely in 2021, at the two-year mark of the Covid-19 pandemic, by inspecting the local dramas various authors re-narrate through the lenses of gender, sexuality and their semiotic performances. Three focal points organise the literature recontextualised here. First is the study of the lingering effects of cisheteropatriarchy in different contexts. Second, while forging …
Mobility and Discourse Circulation in the Contemporary World: The Turn of the Referential Screw
In this paper I call into question the referential paradigm, drawing on the conceptual framework developed by contemporary Anthropology, Linguistic Anthropology, Sociolinguistics and Applied Linguistics. I call for the urgent problematization of the so-called referential metaphysics while arguing that constructs such as entextualization and indexicality can shake the strong representational tradition in the field of language studies - a tradition…
Mulheres emocionalmente descontroladas: Identidades Generificadas Na Mídia Contemporânea
Vários estudos sobre a caracterização da identidade de gênero na mídia têm sinalizado que o eixo bipolar masculino-feminino vem orientando historicamente as narrativas identirárias, ao diferenciar homens e mulheres em razão de sua anátomo-fisiologia. Apontam ainda para o fortalecimento, na contemporaneidade, de discursos cientificistas explicativos do comportamento humano, alimentados pelos avanços tecnológicos e pelo mercado. Tendo em vista esse…
Discurso como arma de guerra: Um Posicionamento Ocidentalista Na Construção Da Alteridade
O processo de ocidentalização do mundo tem sido compreendido como movimento constituidor da Modernidade em termos de uma tentativa totalizadora de universalizar uma lógica européia. Tal perspectiva produziu uma forma de construção de narrativas imaginárias sobre a alteridade e subjetividades alinhadas ao projeto colonial ocidental. O objetivo do presente trabalho é, partindo de Foucault, da Análise do Discurso Crítica e de teorias pós-coloniais, …
Queering Paradigms IV: South-North Dialogues on Queer Epistemologies, Embodiments and Activisms
TV-school hybrid literacy practices as sites for making another logic possible: Voicing Contrasts That Promote Gender and Sexuality Trans-Experiences
Considering the relationship between media and sense-making in Brazil, the purpose of this article is to examine an interventionist collaborative ethnography in a specific literacy context – history classes in a Brazilian state school, in which the classroom teacher, two researchers, and 5th grade students conjointly try to decenter commonsense views of gender and sexuality. By making ample recourse to media texts and to radical hybridity, they w…
Mobility and Discourse Circulation in the Contemporary World: The Turn of the Referential Screw
In this paper I call into question the referential paradigm, drawing on the conceptual framework developed by contemporary Anthropology, Linguistic Anthropology, Sociolinguistics and Applied Linguistics. I call for the urgent problematization of the so-called referential metaphysics while arguing that constructs such as entextualization and indexicality can shake the strong representational tradition in the field of language studies - a tradition…
Viagem Textual Pelo Sul Global: Ideologias Linguísticas Queer E Metapragmáticas Translocais
Com base na análise da reentextualização de um vídeo profissional brasileiro de funk em um vídeo caseiro nas Filipinas, feito por meninos queer, este artigo discute a ideologia linguística e as projeções metapragmáticas translocais que tal trajetória textual enseja. Pautado em teorizações queer, o trabalho explora essa movimentação translocal utilizando os construtos teórico-analíticos de indexicalidade, circulação de discursos, campos de comunic…
Does the picture below show a heterosexual couple or not?’
In this paper we investigate an intimate encounter in 'Life in the Closet', a blog fed by a Brazilian undergraduate, N.B., between 2011 and 2014. As a case in point, we focus on how a YouTube video advert called 'The Man Man' is successively entextualised in the blog, by following its re-entextualisation into posts made by the blogger himself and other participants. We explore this digital event as an instance of several chained reperformances, o…
Transidiomaticity and transperformances in Brazilian queer rap: Toward an abject aesthetics
Queer rap has been shining in the homophobic world of hip-hop lately, especially in the contemporary New York music scene. Considered by many as the new kids on the block, queer rappers have been breaking down mainstream ways of composing, delivering and enacting rap tunes by working on more outwardly feminine performances characterized by ambivalence, hybridity and defiance. In this paper, we focus on how Rico Dalasam, a contemporary Brazilian r…
Discourse circulation in news coverage of the Zika virus outbreak: Colonial geopolitics, biomediatization and affect
Us for Ourselves”: Enregistering and De-Escalating Coronavirus Under Nervous Conditions
In this paper, we explore how attention to language and communication has been one of the strategies to combat the pandemic and foster health justice in the deprived areas of the city. To investigate such aspect, we draw on the conceptions of enregisterment, de-escalation and orders of indexicality. We focus on practices of pragmatic survival enacted by Maré Mobilization Front
A scalar approach to the circulation of virulent affects on the web
This paper develops a scalar view of affect, with a focus on the intense animosity often found in digital encounters. It argues that affect is an important dimension of sense-making and sustains this standpoint both theoretically and empirically, by resorting to a linguistic-anthropological understanding of scale and by analyzing the hectic transit of texts in viral phenomena on the Internet. As a case in point, it analyses a long-lasting interac…
Resistência Política Sem Fogo Amigo: Por Uma Ideologia Linguística Das Misturas Em Nossa Revolta
Testemunhamos, na atualidade, a invasão da cultura beligerante em diversas esferas da vida social, inclusive, na política. Com o populismo de direita se alastrando em escala mundial, um olhar atento à maneira como a linguagem está sendo operacionalizada por líderes políticos e seus/suas apoiadores/as se faz necessário (HODGES, 2020). O mesmo pode ser afirmado em relação às crenças linguísticas que orientam as nossas interpretações sobre as formas…
Language, gender and sexuality in 2021
This year-in-review addresses the way violence and civil unrest manifested intensely in 2021, at the two-year mark of the Covid-19 pandemic, by inspecting the local dramas various authors re-narrate through the lenses of gender, sexuality and their semiotic performances. Three focal points organise the literature recontextualised here. First is the study of the lingering effects of cisheteropatriarchy in different contexts. Second, while forging …
Living memories of the changing same: Rio's linguistic landscape at the crossroads of time and race
This article questions the time of white modernity based on historical periodization and sequential progression, arguing for a more multifaceted approach to time and space in linguistic landscapes (LL). It rethinks the concept of chronotope by examining effects of the African diaspora in Brazil. The experience of radical uprooting it promoted fuses spatiotemporal dimensions that operate in complementary directions. On the one hand, a necrotope se…
Subjetividades-nada”, linguagem e aprendizagem: Precisamos de atrapalhar as significâncias
Neste estudo exploramos os impactos danosos de compreensões das línguas como categorias puras, sobretudo para grupos marginalizados (Bauman; Briggs 2003; Makoni; Pennycook, 2007; MOITA LOPES, 2013). Em diálogo com narrativas produzidas por Filhos, uma aluna de um curso pré-universitário voltado para jovens e adultos de classes populares, refletimos sobre os efeitos perfomativos de visões modernistas das línguas, especialmente da língua inglesa. N…
The encruzilhada as a timespace for decolonizing (socio)linguistics
Plotting hope: Inverse stories and scalar reversals of a health crisis
This article investigates the discursive dimensions of the Zika epidemic in Brazil. It focuses on the ways the sanitary crisis is talked about by mothers of babies born with microcephaly-a Zika-related syndrome. We examine the situated ways these mothers refuse the biomedical and bureaucratic scripts that are handed down to them by engaging with their new realities and fostering hope against the grain of bleak prognosis. To do so, we scrutinize a…
Scaling and indexing sexual anxiety in the Brazilian contemporary extreme right
In this article, we discuss the contemporary phenomenon of the extreme right and argue that it involves the friction between the chronotopes of Colonial Modernity and those of the libertarian forces from the 1960s and 1970s. We also emphasize that this phenomenon can also be understood as social fascism. This chronotopic confrontation, which centrally includes social networks and voracious capitalism, is the effect of biopower and the tactical pr…
Sociology (13 works) · Philosophy (12 works) · Political science (9 works) · Linguistics (8 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (5 works) · Law (5 works)