Resumen

CANEVA, Hernán  y  PARRA, Fabiana. Between the bestial and the sacred: essentialist discourses and neoconservative reaction in Latin America. Polít. globalidad. ciudad. [online]. 2022, vol.8, n.16, pp.263-286.  Epub 06-Jun-2023. ISSN 2395-8448.  https://doi.org/10.29105/pgc8.16-13.

This article is the product of an outgoing research whose objective was to examine the present tensions in certain discoursed coming from liberal and religious neoconservative sectors in Latin American region. The purpose of this research was to show, on one side, the essentialist assumptions of the discoursed (assumptions that, however, can also be analyzed within feminism itself); and on the other hand, show the negative effects that these discursive constructions imply. Subsidiarily, alternatives are presented to dismantle them. To carry out the objectives, the qualitative method of critical- conceptual analysis was applied with the technique of documentary review and analysis of the discourse of historical experiences in which representations based on a supposed essence have a central status to legitimize practices of violence and exclusion. This allowed to show the continuities with the discursive ideological phenomena unleashed by the current neoconservative advance in Latin America, specifically in Argentina. Finally, the paper argues the need to practice the necessary epistemic vigilance so that the discourses in question cease to permeate all layers of society.

Palabras llave : Agency; essentialist discourses; neoconservatism; subjectivation.

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