Violência política de gênero e raça : o caso da cassação da vereadora Edna Sampaio no Portal RDNews

Abstract

The trajectory of female political participation in Brazil, permeated by achievements and challenges, reflects the constant struggle for gender equality in a society historically imbued with patriarchal norms. In this sense, the present work proposes the investigation of media coverage of the impeachment case of the councilwoman from Cuiabá Edna Sampaio (PT) by the Portal RDNews, in search of signs of gender and race-based political violence, with the aim of analyzing how this violence is reflected in the coverage and observing how the newspaper reproduces and perpetuates such forms of violence in political contexts. We seek to answer the research question: how does gender and race-based political violence occur in the coverage of the Edna Sampaio case on the Portal RDNews, throughout the councilwoman's first impeachment process? The methodology adopted consists of Critical Narrative Analysis, proposed by Motta (2013), which unfolds in three levels: expression level, which deals with the language used in the narrative; story level, which involves the identification and organization of characters, settings, events, and verb tenses; and metanarrative level, which analyzes broader issues such as the social, political, and cultural context in which the narrative is embedded. For the theoretical framework, we use authors who address the theme from the perspective of gender (Krook; Sanín, 2016) and the intersectionality between gender and race (Gonzalez, 1980). In conclusion, we find that the narrative presents signs of gender and race-based political violence, demonstrating the intersectionality of the violence faced by black women in politics in Cuiabá.