Gender and sexuality in the culture war: conservatism on WhatsApp

Authors

  • Aknaton Toczek SOUZA Universidade Católica de Pelotas (UCPel)
  • Pablo Ornelas Rosa Universidade Vila Velha (UVV)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.47456/argumentum.v15i1.38558

Abstract

This article analyses the discussions on gender and sexuality produced during the Brazilian hyper-militarisation process. It stems from an investigation conducted using the ethnographic method involving WhatsApp groups self-identifying as conservative and Christian, and who directly supported President Jair Bolsonaro. It analyses the role of gender and sexuality studies in the militarisation process, and in its resurgence due to neoliberal reasoning. It then presents an investigation of the 2018 elections and the government of Jair Bolsonaro, verifying how the propagation of the notion of a culture war came to be used to confer a certain legitimacy in its increasingly vehement actions in relation to its political opponents. Finally, it reveals, through ethnographic and documentary data, how gender and sexuality studies began to be mobilised in this war, serving as moral justification for political and economic purposes.

Keywords: Digital platforms. Gender. Sexuality. War. Social representations.

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Author Biographies

Aknaton Toczek SOUZA, Universidade Católica de Pelotas (UCPel)

Advogado. Doutor em Sociologia e doutorando em Direito pela Universidade Federal do Paraná (UFPR). Professor permanente do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Política Social e Direitos Humanos da Universidade Católica de Pelotas. (UCPel, Pelotas, Brasil).

Pablo Ornelas Rosa, Universidade Vila Velha (UVV)

Sociólogo. Doutor em Ciências Sociais. Professor Permanente dos Programas de Pós-Graduação em Sociologia Política e em Segurança Pública da Universidade Vila Velha. (UVV, Vila Velha, Brasil).

Professor e do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciência, Tecnologia e Educação da Universidade do Vale Cricaré. (UNIVC, São Mateus, Brasil).

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Published

24-04-2023

How to Cite

SOUZA, A. T., & Rosa, P. O. (2023). Gender and sexuality in the culture war: conservatism on WhatsApp. Argumentum, 15(1), 125–139. https://doi.org/10.47456/argumentum.v15i1.38558

Issue

Vol. 15 No. 1 (2023): Sexualidade, direitos sexuais e reprodutivos em tempos de avanço conservador

Section

Thematic Articles

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