Pensando com Judith Butler

FROM MORAL PANIC TO SOCIAL DEATH AS MANAGEMENT OF LGBTPHOBIA IN BRAZIL

Abstract

In this article we seek to understand the relationships between law and society in disputes for the recognition of the LGBTQIA+ population. To do this, we resort to the thinking of Judith Butler, especially regarding the themes of moral panic, normativity and the concept of social death, we aim to understand the management of LGBTphobia in Brazil. We maintain that there is a morally constructed valuation of lives, which occurs in the order of biopolitics, whose intention is to separate them into human lives and less-than-human lives. Finally, we consider that there is historically a production of moral panic, which is directly related to the exercise of violence against LGBTQIA+ bodies. Violence that would result from a mark also caused by biopower, which signs it, through abjection, which bodies will have social intelligibility.