TENSIONS AND DISPLACEMENTS IN THE TESSITURE OF A CONTEMPORARY POLITICAL ETHOS: THE FEMINIST POLITICAL PATH OF NATÁLIA BONAVIDES AND DIVANEIDE BASILIA IN NATAL / RN
Political ethos; speeches; feminisms; elections; political representation.
This study intends to understand how a political ethos is constituted in contemporaneity from the candidates Natália Bonavides and Divaneide Basílio political paths analysis. Both are self-declared feminists applied for 2016 municipal election in Natal city, Rio Grande do Norte's capital, Brazil. Those paths' observation points to the urge of speech and intersectional political actions such as tensioning and displacement about issues related to the androcentric, sexist and racist structures of brazilian institutional politics. When thinking about a contemporary ethos-political understood as a "spirit", a specific practice that mobilizes the urge of certain speeches - the research connects reflections on the political action of the two candidates and the production of subjectivities in the different political spaces they have been occupying. The empirical research was carried out in the perspective of a qualitative social research with interviews opened in depth with the candidates. According to Fraser (2006), the (re)construction of a political body based on recognition and redistribution is important to understand the paths' singularities built by the candidates and their possible openings to the creation of new political ambiences. In this context, the propositions of Michel Foucault (1976), Judith Butler (1998, 2016) and Giorgio Agamben (2005) are also significant to problematization of gender device; Maria Rita Kehl (2016), in a discussion of women's displacements and emerging speech; Silvia Federici (2017) and Heleieth Saffioti (1976), in proposing a new interpretation of contemporary capitalism in the light of gender issues.