Open AccessGender, politics and knowledge
Author(s) -
Brume Dezembro Iazzetti,
Isadora Lins França
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
revista dos trabalhos de iniciação científica da unicamp
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2596-1969
DOI - 10.20396/revpibic262018219
Subject(s) - politics , context (archaeology) , knowledge production , intersectionality , sociology , diversity (politics) , space (punctuation) , gender studies , action (physics) , political science , law , anthropology , geography , knowledge management , linguistics , philosophy , physics , quantum mechanics , computer science , archaeology
Marked by a context known for advances in policies surrounding trans people and travestis, concomitant with the persist of transphobic violence, this research focus in the university context, seeking – through fieldwork in events organized by trans activists – to understand how the university itself is constructed as an opening (or not) to experimentation in terms of gender, articulating three main conceptual keys – gender diversity, political action and knowledge production. I conclude that there are a series of tensions between an “in” and “out” of university, with debates mobilized by these subjects that emphasizes the importance of intersectionality and the need to go beyond the restrict architectural spaces of this environment. The university is here seem as both a productive (and relatively safe) space and a space tensioned by institutionalized violence, “privileges” and a model of knowledge production that often excludes historically marginalized people. These political engagements often emphasizes the dimensions of experience and body.