Diferença em disputa: os embates acerca do kit anti-homofobia (2004-2012).

Abstract

This dissertation is an integral part of the research line Currículo: sujeitos, conhecimentos e cultura which is coordinated by Prof. Dr. Elizabeth Fernandes de Macedo. In this work I have analysed the conflicts that took place through discursive articulations on the anti-homophobia kit of the project Escola Sem Homofobia from the Ministry of Education. The aim of this work was to answer about what might have contributed for the discourse against the implementation of such project to have come out of these conflicts as a hegemonic one. Moreover, the work also aims at answering if this material would be a destabilizer in the binary discussion that is involved in this set of themes or if it world reinforce such binary frame. To that end, I used the following as theoretical resources: post-colonial studies, post-structural studies, discourse theory, discussions on the field of curriculum, and queer theory. Methodologically I followed both the arguments of the political actors who positioned themselves favourably to the utilization of this kit in schools and the arguments of those who positioned themselves against it in some nationally relevant media outlets, as well as in the pronouncements issued in the House of Representatives and the Senate plenary sessions, from November 2010 to October 2012. The analysis evidenced that the discursive conflicts provoked by such governmental actions may be an invitation to resignifying Brazilian cultural tradition, which is so marked by sexism and homophobia.