Tabatha Frony Morgado June 2013 protests in Brazil: A corpography of power and resistance Tese de Doutorado Thesis presented to the Programa de Pós- Graduação em Relações Internacionais of the Instituto de Relações Internacionais, PUC-Rio in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doutor em Relações Internacionais. Advisor: Prof. James Casas Klausen Rio de Janeiro December 2019 Tabatha Frony Morgado June 2013 protests in Brazil: A corpography of power and resistance Thesis presented to the Programa de Pós- Graduação em Relações Internacionais of PUC-Rio in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doutor em Relações Internacionais. Approved by the Examination Committee. Prof. James Casas Klausen Advisor Instituto de Relações Internacionais - PUC-Rio Prof.a Letícia Carvalho de Mesquita Ferreira Programa de Pós-graduação em Sociologia e Antropologia - UFRJ Prof. Victor Coutinho Lage Instituto de Humanidades, Artes e Ciências Professor Milton Santos - UFBA Prof.a Marta Regina Fernandez Y Garcia Moreno Instituto de Relações Internacionais - PUC-Rio Prof.a Paula Orrico Sandrin Instituto de Relações Internacionais - PUC-Rio Rio de Janeiro, December 12, 2019. All rights reserved. Tabatha Frony Morgado The author has a B.A. in International Relations from the Centro Universitário da Cidade, Rio de Janeiro, in 2005, and obtained her M.Sc. degree in Global Studies from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, in 2009. Bibliographic data Morgado, Tabatha Frony June 2013 protests in Brazil: A corpography of power and resistance / Tabatha Frony Morgado ; advisor: James Casas Klausen. – 2019. 231 f. : il. color. ; 30 cm Tese (doutorado) – Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, Instituto de Relações Internacionais, 2019. Inclui bibliografia 1. Relações Internacionais – Teses. 2. Protestos junho de 2013. 3. Corpos. 4. Resistência. 5. Poder. I. Klausen, James Casas. II. Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro. Instituto de Relações Internacionais. III. Título. CDD: 327 to the life forces of struggle, resistance and affection of whom I am heir to Belkis and Claudia who gave me the enabling power of love and life to Mia and Daniel, who awoke in me the enabling power to love to those resisting oppression and violence with love and creativity, with care and compassion, with openness, flexibility, and understanding Acknowledgements I would like to thank all the professors with whom I had the opportunity and honor to be with during these years at IRI. Maíra Gomes, for believing in my research project and for encouraging my application. Marta Fernández and Roberto Yamato, for their competence and attention during the introductory course to IR Theory. Isabel de Siqueira and João Nogueira, for opening different and critical ways to (re)think inequalities and hierarchies in international politics. Rob Walker, for the outstanding, loving and affective way he treated all of us during his classes. I am grateful for his provocations that led me to question the deeply embedded roots constituting me as a liberal subjectivity and to open myself to political critique. For sure, the text presented here is partly an effort in becoming more attentive to the political effects of my thoughts, practices and privileges. I am also grateful to Matt Davies, for his generosity in sharing his course material on globalization with me. Those readings helped me immensely. To Adriana Gil, for sharing her time and pedagogy and allowing me to participate as assistant in her course on Gender and Sexuality, in which I learned a great deal about the intersections of race, gender, sexuality and class and its effects in Brazil. To Kyle Grayson, for allowing me to take part of his inspiring classes on Critical Geopolitics (not only) as a listener. To Anna Leander, for providing a space and time for the exchange of constructive critique together with my PhD colleagues. I also thank Paulo Esteves, for the initial orientations and suggestions on how to navigate academic life, and for introducing me to Jimmy, that is my supervisor James Casas Klausen, without whom this work would not have become what it is. I am deeply grateful to Jimmy for providing me the opportunity to learn from an autonomous and non-prescriptive pedagogy, focused on mutual contribution over decision and instruction. I learned a lot when participating as assistant in his course on Radical Political Theory and also in his classes on Biopolitics and Theories of Gender and Sexuality. They were all amazing experiences. His continuous support, care and patience along the years deserve gratitude. Jimmy’s influence is never going to be simply delimited by the years of my PhD experience. I am especially grateful for the new possibilities of open and horizontal dialogue and room for thought in the multiple encounters, silences, pauses and questionings provided. Jimmy has been by my side carving out different spaces and times with(in) and against life pressures and deadlines. Also, my thanks to Edmé Dominguez and Carolina Moulin, for their comments and suggestions as members of my PhD project evaluation committee. To the members of the committee, Leticia Ferreira, Marta Fernandez, Paula Sandrin, and Victor Lage: it was an honor to count on your participation and constructive feedback. Thank you for accepting my invitation. I am also grateful to Paola Sartoretto, who agreed to be a substitute member. To my PhD colleagues, Bia, Sebas, Ana, Lara and Chico: I have learned much from you! I also thank Carol and Amanda for our conversations in search for creating a work in common. You were all crucial in building an affective space of exchange, helping me go through the most difficult times under this PhD. Thank you for sharing your time, experiences and affect with me. Without your support and presence, this work would not have had meaning. Regarding the administrative crew at IRI, I am specially grateful to Lia, whose help has always gone well beyond her designations. The attention provided by Lutiene, Dayse, Peterson, Renato, Geísa and Vinícius was always of great help too. Thank you! I am deeply grateful to those who have always offered me everyday emotional and material support all along my life: my mother Claudia, my stepfather Paulo and my stepbrothers Pedro and Dudu, my uncles Flavio and Cecelo, my aunts Andrea, Monica and Tania, my grandparents (in memoriam) Belkis and Fernando. I also thank the support of my cousins Georgia and Diego, and of my soul sisters: Mimmy, Mic, Mary Jane and Anya. And my friends Anna, Michele, Simon, Beth, Vivian and Lilian. Daniel, my partner, has offered me daily support and affection. Without your love in so many fronts this work would not have been possible. You have proven to be a generous partner, an affective and sensitive man, and a loving father. Mia, my love, and the newest of my special family constellation, has provided me the challenge of becoming a mother and the deepest love I have ever experienced. It is due to her presence in my daily life that so many important and deep transformations have occurred in me. Thank you, “aguzinha da mamãe”. Paola Sartoretto and Nubia Evertsson have warmly welcomed me at the Latin American Institute at Stockholm University. I thank both of them for their valuable orientations and recommendations during the period I was a visiting scholar at that institute. I am surely grateful to the opportunities life have given me. I thank all those not specifically mentioned here due to the impossibility of recalling all lines of feeling, experience, sensation, affection and thought traversing me and these pages. All of those experiences of the unconscious and my ancestral black and indigenous roots are also part of my trajectory. And, thanks to the experience of writing this thesis, I could learn more on the potential of recovering effaced memories and stories. Dealing with these difficult pasts may have confused me, but it also encourages me to go after my instincts, feelings, dreams and beliefs. Finally, I thank the support of PUC-Rio for making this work possible. This study was financed in part by the Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior, Brasil (CAPES). Finance code 001. Abstract Morgado, Tabatha Frony; Klausen, James Casas (Advisor). June 2013 protests in Brazil: A corpography of power and resistance. Rio de Janeiro, 2019. 231 p. Tese de Doutorado – Instituto de Relações Internacionais, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro. Broadly speaking, this thesis deals with different gazes, narratives and interpretations regarding bodies in protest in Brazil. The work is an effort to situate these “corpographies” through an analysis of the practices and discourses of resistance and power and their connection with the bodies circulating the June 2013 protests in Brazil. Moreover, the relations between power and resistance are informed by a Foucauldian theoretico-methodological framework and queer theory, in special the lines developed by Judith Butler. As such, this thesis has bodies (material and discursive), as the privileged analytical entry/departure point. In order to contextualize these onto-epistemological lines, racism is discussed as a historical-cultural trait that guides the interpretation of these “corpographies”. Racism is therefore understood as a central factor in regulating the circulation of bodies in Brazilian time and space. Finally, this thesis seeks to observe how, in a more global context, bodies have been ambivalently invested with power and resistance. Such ambivalence is analyzed through the treatment of racialization and queering practices, specifically linked to the June 2013 context in Brazil. Keywords June 2013 protests; bodies; resistance; power. Resumo Morgado, Tabatha Frony; Klausen, James Casas. Protestos de Junho de 2013 no Brasil: Uma corpografia de poder e resistência. Rio de Janeiro, 2019. 231p. Tese de Doutorado – Instituto de Relações Internacionais, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro. Em linhas gerais, essa tese trata sobre distintos olhares, narrativas e interpretações sobre corpos em protesto.