Gramáticas emocionais em trajetórias de engajamento no campo de direitos sexuais: compaixão e vitimização a partir de narrativas biográficas de intelectuais brasileiros

Abstract

This dissertation examines narratives of scholars with prominent trajectories in the field of sexual rights in Latin America. The corpus is made from a database of interviews with recognized actors in the intellectual field of the Latin American sexual rights, particularly the interviews with Brazilians. The objective is to describe and understand the emotional grammars that inform discourses related to their engagement in political and intellectual issues of gender and sexuality. The concepts of violence and compassion explain their commitment to these issues. From a theoretical approach based on the anthropology of emotions, the dissertation discusses the role of emotions in social movements. The focus was on the discursive relationship between emotion and career choices in these narratives, which are intersected both by thematic studies on sexual rights, and the exchange with social movements.