Karina Bárcenas Barajas She has a doctorate in Social Sciences, with a specialty in Social Anthropology, from the Center for Research and Higher Studies in Social Anthropology (CIESAS). Master in Communication of Science and Culture from the Technological Institute and Higher Studies of the West (ITESO) and Bachelor of Communication from the Universidad Iberoamericana (León). He is a member of the National System of Researchers (level I). His lines of research are religion, sexual diversity and political culture; identities, gender and social movements; religion and internet. He has received academic recognition for his research work from institutions such as the Mexican Academy of Sciences and the National Council for the Teaching and Research of Communication Sciences. She is a professor and tutor of the Graduate Program in Political and Social Sciences at UNAM since 2015. She has published in books and scientific journals, has also been a speaker and coordinator of working groups and thematic tables at national and international congresses.

Entrevistas

What is the “gender ideology” ?: social and political transformations in Brazil based on the appropriation of a discursive strategy

Interview with
  • Maria das Dores Campos Machado

  • Karina Bárcenas Barajas

This interview constitutes an important approach to understand the origin of the term “gender ideology” as a discursive elaboration created by the Catholic Church to stop the advances of the feminist agenda and sexual diversity. In this conversation, Maria das Dores Campos Machado reveals how this strategy, of Catholic origin, was used by evangelical deputies and senators in Brazil as a counteroffensive to the gender perspective in public policies, which, in turn, diverted attention from various practices of religious intolerance that placed Pentecostal groups and actors at the center of public opinion.