BETWEEN DATA AND DOUBTS: An analysis of transfeminicide in Brazil
Transfeminicídio; Gender; Violence; Recognition.
The research moves to understand the primary factors for the understanding of transfeminicídio in Brazil. For this, the discursive fulcrum is guided by two central categories, 'gender' and 'violence', and its connections with other theoretical spheres, such as 'humanity', 'recognition', 'precariousness', 'vulnerability' and 'mourning'. The main hypothesis is based on the idea that the state itself is one of the main agents (if not the most important) in the production of unequal levels of humanity and that death policies are the driving force behind this system. It is characterized as an ethnographic research (MALINOWSKI, 1972) and the phases that constitute it privilege the perception that the ethnography should be seen as a lived theory (PEIRANO, 2008). The empirical context is characterized by ethnographies held in seminars and meetings aimed at trans people and the cataloging of online data from national and international NGOs. Authors as Berenice Bento (2014, 2016), Judith Butler (2006a, 2006b, 2011, 2014, 2015, 2016), Georg Hegel (1992) and Jaqueline Gomes de Jesus (2013) make up the core theoretical framework that underlies research.