Description

Dominant approaches in constructivist International Relations (IR) research fail to adequately account for the current resistance to and contestation of identity politics. Instead, empirical studies centering on compliance display a bias towards “good” global norms and the agentive capacities of Western liberal democracies. This thesis challenges constructivist understandings of norm diffusion by analyzing the contestation of identity politics in Brazil. Based on a genealogical account of moralisitic securitization, I begin by tracing the historical formation of the political opposition to identity politics in Brazil. Proceeding with a focus on the transnational embeddedness of religious politics, I analyze relational configurations at the growing intersection of the political and religious fields that explain the increasing political influence of religious actors. In order to better explain the complexities and scope of the traditionalist dynamics unfolding in response to identity politics in Brazil, I then triangulate the previous two approaches with theoretical insights IR scholarship has recently gained from the norm contestation framework.

Project Details

Project Type

Dissertation

Subject Group

Law, Economics and Social Sciences

Subject Classification

Political Science

Start

2019

End

2022

Organization

Faculty/Central Institute

Institute for Latin American Studies

Institute/Seminar

International Research Training Group 'Temporalities of Future in Latin America'

Field/Work Area

Political Sciences

Project Team

Director

Alrik Schubotz

Contact

Email

a1rik@zedat.fu-berlin.de

Keywords

Brazil; Resurgent religion; Gender and sexuality; Securitization; Transnational fields

Researchers

• Alrik Schubotz

  Former