Behind a hole there is always an eye: neoliberal rationality, fundamentalist authoritarianism, sexuality, and gender in Basic Education
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https://doi.org/10.5212/PraxEduc.v.15.15010.045Abstract
This paper is structured in four topics in the service of establishing relations between neoliberal rationality and fundamentalist authoritarianism, always keeping an eye on issues of gender and sexuality in the field of Basic Education. Initially, the recent political and cultural context in Brazil is outlined. Then, the recent political and cultural context in Brazil is discussed, making use of the concepts of neoliberalism, neoliberal rationality, democracy and de-democratization and the entrepreneurial subject. Subsequently, the text deals with the impasses involved in addressing issues of gender and sexuality in Basic Education school, based on the ethnography of school scenes; in addition, it deals with the concepts of gender; sexuality; gender ideology; pedagogies of gender and sexuality; and diversity and moral panic. Finally, the reflections made in the previous topics are articulated, using the statement “the State makes gender and gender makes the State”, in order to emphasize that gender, sexuality and the conservative moral elements of the current Government are not accidental elements of the neoliberal rationality project, but they are at its heart.
Keywords: Neoliberal rationality. Conservative policies. Pedagogies of gender and sexuality.
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