POLITIC WOMEN IN NATAL: THE TESSITURE OF THE NEW CONTEMPORARY POLITICAL ETHOS
New political ethos; actor-network theory; feminisms; elections; political representation.
In thinking about the emergence of a new political ethos - understood as a new "spirit", a different dwelling that mobilizes the emergence of certain discourses -, questions are raised about the possibility of a political action that causes the displacement and tension a path connected to the androcentric, sexist and racist structures of Brazilian institutional politics. The present study intends to understand the political course of the candidates Natália Bonavides and Divaneide Basílio, both self-declared feminists, in the municipal election of 2016, in the city of Natal, capital of Rio Grande Norte, Brazil. The research will connect reflections about political action and the production of subjectivities in the different political spaces, through in-depth interviews, supported by the theory-actor-network perspective proposed by Latour (2012), carried out with the candidates and the others involved in the process. According to Fraser (2006), the (re)construction of a political body based on recognition and redistribution are central to understanding the singularities of the paths built by the candidates and their possible openings to the creation of new political ambiences. In this context, the dialogue with the interlocutors is also triggered: Michel Foucault (1976), Judith Butler (1998, 2016) and Giorgio Agamben (2005), in the problematization about the gender device; Maria Rita Kehl (2016), in the discussion about women's displacements emerging discourses, and Silvia Federici (2017), proposing a new interpretation of contemporary capitalism in the light of gender issues. The first observations indicate the necessity of a theoretical and practical deepening in the understanding of intersectional political emergencies in a seesaw of tensions in the frontiers of contemporary politics.