Begonya EnguixUniversitat Oberta de Catalunya | UOC · Arts and Humanities Studies
Begonya Enguix
Ph D. Social and Cultural Anthropology (URV, Spain)
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In this article, we aim to explore how affects work within and through gender discourse in the Spanish far right. We address two burning topics: the connection of (anti)gender and far-right politics and the political potential of affects. Opposing traditional views, we argue that far-right groups are not exclusively driven by hate. In Vox leaders’...
El 6 de enero de 2021, entre los seguidores de Trump que asaltaron el Capitolio de Washington estaba Jacob Anthony Chansley — también conocido como Jake Angeli. Ataviado con un tocado de piel de coyote y cuernos de búfalo, descamisado, cubierto por significativos tatuajes, con un megáfono, una lanza envuelta en una bandera estadounidense y la cara...
Este volumen pretende participar en el debate sobre lo que se denominan las nuevas masculinidades y generar una reflexión, aportado una visión caleidoscópica y coral, sobre como construyen su
masculinidad los jóvenes varones en este primer tercio del siglo XXI en sociedades adultocéntricas y machocráticas, donde el poder se ejerce desde la mirada d...
This article discusses the political potentialities of embodied feminist resistance in a nationalist setting like contemporary Catalonia. It strives to provide a better understanding of the body-gender-nation assemblage and pave the way for different formulas of resistance. I study how feminist nationalism in the Catalan pro-independence left oppos...
In this chapter I discuss how bodies, gender and politics are related and assembled. Following feminist epistemologies that consider bodies as open materialities, matter and discourse and active participants in social life opens up possibilities for hacking and re-shaping our bodies and for shaping and re-shaping us. Through the examination of two...
Obiageli Ezekwesili, exministra d’Educació de Nigèria, va impulsar la campanya internacional #BringBackOurGirls per a reivindicar l’alliberament de 276 xiquetes segrestades pel grup terrorista Boko Haram al nord-est del país. L’acció va tenir una enorme repercussió internacional i personalitats com Michelle Obama o Angelina Jolie van sumar-se a la...
In order to explore the political and transformative potential of bodies in relation to gender and affects, I discuss how bodies, gender and politics are entangled through the figuration of ‘overflown bodies’. Departing from a material-discursive feminist conceptualisation of bodies, ‘overflown bodies’ are assemblages embedded in complex relationsh...
In this chapter I aim to consider what posthumanism and other feminist epistemologies (such as new materialisms) can “do” with and for Gender Studies and for our understanding of some of the sex-gender and affect configurations. Through moving from natural(ised) essences to a nonbinary model of knowledge that focuses on relations, connections, syst...
This article discusses the possibilities that posthumanist paradigms offer for anthropological analysis. It departs from a field research on the relationship between masculinities and bodies that took part between 2011 and 2014. That research consisted on three different waves determined by sexual orientation, sex and origin of the informants. This...
Patriarchy dominates systems of knowledge across religion, popular culture and medicine, constructing gender and sexuality. It subordinates women through categories related to health and illness, goodness and evil. "Possessed women" condense the idea of order subversion through the disorder of the soul and the body. Men assume the position as the k...
In this work we consider that bodies are individual, social and symbolic producers of discourses about identity. Through the exploration of the connections between bodies, gender meanings and sexualities, we aim to unveil the values and mean- ings of gender that we associate to feminine bodies; we also aim to analyze the referential categories for...
El dia 1 de junio de 2016 realizamos una extracción de datos a través de la API de Instagram durante 24 horas en el contexto del festival Primavera Sound, utilizando el hashtag oficial. Al mismo tiempo realizamos trabajo etnográfico. Los datos extraídos de la aplicación se analizaron manualmente y mediante programas de visualización .
En esta vis...
On the first Saturday of July, Madrid hosts the State LGTB (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender) Pride Demonstration with participants from LGTB activist groups, trade unions, political parties, NGOs and entrepreneurship. It involves around one million people and generates a profit of around 110 million euros. The participation of commercially s...
This article is part of a research about the use of selfies in two different apps, Grindr and Instagram. We are interested in exploring how selfies relate to masculine bodies and produce different negotiations of intimacy. Selfies are personal, bodily centered, and highly visible. Understanding their production can contribute to the discussion on t...
El primer sábado de julio Madrid acoge la Manifestación Estatal del Orgullo
LGTB (Lesbianas, Gays, Bisexuales y personas Transgénero) en la que participan grupos
activistas LGTB, partidos políticos y sindicatos, ONG y grupos empresariales. Asiste
aproximadamente un millón de personas y genera unos beneficios que rondan los 110
millones de euros. La...
Based on the anthropological interrogation into communities and the construction of a public sphere, this article approaches the digital strategies used to shape what may be referred to as the Spanish LGTB sphere. I consider LGTB activism as the main producer of legitimized social discourse, and have therefore analyzed the websites of seven LGTB co...
This volume is the result of a thorough exploration of contemporary conceptions of romantic love from different points of view. Beginning with an initial text where the meanings of romantic love are discussed theoretically and historically, the contributions gathered here present current discussions about love in the present day and in different ge...
The Trilogy 50 Shades of Grey is a worldwide best-seller with more than 65 million copies
sold in 2012. We base our analysis on E.L. James’ trilogy together with the content analysis
of the official online forums created by the Spanish publisher. The success of this trilogy is
strongly related with the possibility to become a trending topic in thes...
The present article presents the results of an ongoing research
whose goals are to explore the relationship between body and gender and
to analyse how the discourses on specific bodies are built up, considering
body as a discursive entity in itself. It analyses the bodily discourses on
masculinity and the discursive codes and conventions through wh...
La publicación de la trilogía 50 Sombras de Grey ha sido un fenómeno editorial en todo el mundo, con más de 65 millones de copias vendidas en 2012. La base de este artículo es la trilogía escrita por E.L. James junto con los comentarios surgidos en torno a ella en los foros en Internet creados por la editorial española de su obra. Buena parte del é...
Identity-based social movements face a well- studied and basic contradiction: using their difference to achieve equality reinforces their differentiation. Tensions between difference and equality have permeated activist discourses at least since the 60s shaping various activist positions that range from assimilationism to radicalism.
In the curre...
This article derives from my own fieldwork experience as a female anthropologist working in the field of gender and male sexual dissidence. Taking my early fieldwork in the 1990s as a departure point, and drawing on my recent fieldwork with Spanish Lesbian, Gay, Transsexual and Bisexual activists, I reflect on the researcher's position, both in the...
The present work intends to explore the relationships between bodies and masculinities and to analyse the way in which the discourses on particular bodies are constructed in everyday life. As we are aware of the difficulties of making explicit some implicit discourses on such a complex intersection, we chose to use photography as an elicitation tec...
The present article presents the results of an ongoing research whose goals are to explore the relationship between body and gender and to analyse how the discourses on specific bodies are built up, considering body as a discursive entity in itself. It analyses the bodily discourses on masculinity and the discursive codes and conventions through wh...
Media are fundamental in the processes of identity construction. In the case of social movements, media also play an important role for the visibilization of the movements and their claims, and for the mobilization of the population (Shner and Aviv, 2006; Carroll and Ratner, 1999: 3). I aim to analyze media mediation and LGTB activism through the a...
El proceso de investigación en ciencias sociales aspira al mayor −y mejor− conocimiento del mundo que nos rodea. Para este objetivo es fundamental saber tratar los datos que los investigadores manejamos. Por ello, en este artículo se propone una reflexión sobre el manejo de los datos asentada en los conceptos de análisis/interpretación y fundamenta...
The occupation of public space by signifying bodies is basic for activism. The visibility of demonstrating bodies confronts social meanings, enacts social claims and shapes social imaginaries about the protest and the protesters. Bodies are not just mediators of protest: they are protest.
This proposal aims to analyze the embodied practices as ac...
Since the publication of Haraway’s celebrated work on cyborgs, through the works of Latour and Akrich, among others, much has been said about the intersections betweeen bodies and technologies, about the limits of the human and the entrance in the ‘post-human’ and about the processes of embodiment/disembodiment of the Computer Mediated Communicatio...
The present work explores the relationships between body, gender and sexuality and analyzes how the discourses on particular bodies are constructed in everyday life. We do so through the analysis of advertising images, of photographs from our own fieldwork, through the narratives evoked by them and also through data obtained during in-depth intervi...
Presentem, amb aquestes ratlles, un dossier
dedicat a la recerca duta a terme per un conjunt molt divers
d’investigadors. Cal potser explicar, primer, que no els aplega una
mateixa orientació o perspectiva d’anàlisi, ni la coincidència en etapes
històriques o objectes d’estudi, sinó el fet de constituir l’equip que en
part va construir unes titulac...
El presente trabajo pretende hacer un repaso histórico, y necesariamente breve, a la conformación histórica de la figura del hermafrodita y analizar su pervivencia en los imaginarios sociales actuales. Este análisis plantea cuestiones relacionadas con la construcción socio-histórica del sexo e incide particularmente en considerar los elementos que...
Las fronteras siempre nos dicen algo. Al pensar una frontera, podemos pensarnos con una identidad cambiada, distinta. Hay fronteras que actúan como marcadores simbólicos de la distancia física, social, subjetiva. Hay fronteras que marcan la transi-ción hacia experiencias liminales. Hay fronteras geográficas, interpersonales, sexuales, de género, ét...
Este artículo pretende analizar cómo los discursos socioculturales conforman, se inscriben y son transformados en/ por nuestros cuerpos y nuestras prácticas corporales. Tomamos como ejemplo la re-presentación de los cuerpos de los homosexuales-gays durante la dictadura franquista española y en la actualidad. Nos centraremos en los hombres puesto qu...
In this article, we will approach the mechanisms used for entitlement and the way in which public space has been reappropriated and resignified by sexual dissidents as a space for vindication, visibilization and commemoration. We will do so through the analysis of the LGTB Pride Parades in Spain – Madrid Pride in particular – and through an analysi...
Durante el siglo XIX se construyó una identidad homosexual particular, medicalizada y estigmatizada .En los años 60, la existencia de esa identidad fue negada por el movimiento gay aunque con su sola existencia parecía confirmar esa especificidad. En la actualidad siguen coexistiendo estos dos discursos, un discurso mayoritario que condena y estigm...
A partir del análisis de la articulación entre espacio urbano y sexualidad y en particular del análisis de las manifestaciones por el Orgullo LGTB en Madrid pretendemos profundizar en la relación entre territorialización, comunidades (identidades compartidas) y activismo político y analizar los mecanismos utilizados para la vindicación, la reivindi...
ResumenIdioma En esta comunicación pretendemos acercarnos a los problemas metodológicos a los que nos enfrentamos al abordar la investigación de las identidades de género en Internet. Para ello, en primer lugar nos aproximaremos al modo cómo hasta el momento han sido conceptualizadas las relaciones entre géneros e Internet. Posteriormente, nos cent...
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L'objectiu d'aquest projecte és explorar les relacions entre política, emoció i afecte a partir de l'elaboració d'històries activistes i de cartografies de sis entitats seccessionistes.
L'objectiu d'aquest projecte és explorar les relacions entre política, emoció i afecte a partir de l'elaboració d'històries activistes i de cartografies de sis entitats seccessionistes.
Over the world, cybercampaign is growing to escalate human and women rights, but their real impact on local and global communities are unknown, beyond clear publicity effect. We analyse #StopRapeInConflict and #BringBackOurGirls under a multidisciplinar and feminist approach, with the inclusion of digital ethnographies, interviews and quantiative techniques.
This project is funded by the International Catalan Institute for Peace (ICIP) grant number 2017 RICIP 0000
