Disgusting politics
Circuits of affects and the making of Bolsonaro
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7093640 |
|---|---|
| Authors | R Borba (0000-0003-4348-1812, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 677-694 |
| Publication date | 2020-08-27 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Semiotics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1035-0330 • E-ISSN: 1470-1219 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/10350330.2020.1810554 |
| OpenAlex | W3081547380 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 20 |
| References cited | 17 |
Jair Bolsonaro, the unapologetically homophobic and ultraconservative Brazilian president, managed to emerge from the margins of the political system and gained electoral momentum during the impeachment hearing against Dilma Rousseff in 2016. The hearing, which ultimately demoted the first female president of the country, epitomizes the current affective polarization of Brazil in which sexual dissidence plays an important role. This paper discusses the politics of discourse, affect and sexuality which has drawn Bolsonaro and his far-right ideologies into greater political relief. To do so, I will focus on the scene in which Jean Wyllys, a human rights activist and the only openly gay congressmember at the time, spat on Bolsonaro. Wyllys’ misdemeanor caused a commotion in the country and was recontextualized in several venues such as memes, social media, op-eds, YouTube parodies etc. This paper investigates the intense circulation of Wyllys’ actions and how it responds to and takes issue with the larger affective scenario of the country. I analyze the socio-semiotic life of Wyllys’ spit by tracking its textual trajectory with a view to discussing the performativity of disgust and the forging of political (in)sensibilities with regards to gender and sexuality in contemporary Brazil
Human sexuality · Ideology · Media studies · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Status quo · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Law · Media Studies and Communication
Abjeção como força pragmática
Discursos contrarios a la educación sexual en España
Politics of fear in Brazil
Enregistering “gender ideology”
From crushes to squishes
Populist authoritarian neoliberalism in Brazil
Stigmatisation and resistance processes
Fora, Bolsonaro genocida!’
Language, gender and sexuality in 2021
The Current Conjuncture
Affective practice, power, and inclusion at a migrant-run Hong Kong gay bar
An unlikely coalition to defend the nation and banish “gender ideology” from Brazilian schools
Banksy’s Walled Off Hotel and the mediatization of street art
Theorizing Contemporary Anti-Gender Politics
Living in Anti‐Intellectual Times
Embracing or Rebuffing “the International”? Populist Foreign Policy and the Fourth Wave of Populism in Latin America
Justifying contentious social and political claims using mundane language
Introduction
"Yo también soy feminista". Neoconservadurismo de género desde el activismo antiaborto en Chile
Excluding unlaughter
Communicability, Racial Discourse, and Disease
Discourse
The Cultural Politics of Emotion
The Future Birth of the Affective Fact
Introduction
Subversive, Mother, Killjoy
Gendered politics of enmity
Critical affect studies
The disinformation order
No-go zones in Sweden
Colonial intertexts
Affect and Emotion
Parables for the Virtual
On virtual epidemics and the mediatization of public health
Language/sexuality/affect
The Queer Art of Failure
| Unique citing works | 20 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 4 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2026 (6) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 20 |