Banca de DEFESA: Rafaela Seixas Fontes

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STUDENT : Rafaela Seixas Fontes
DATE: 25/04/2024
TIME: 10:00
LOCAL: SALA DE VIDEOCONFERÊNCIA - FAULDADE DE DIREITO - UnB
TITLE:

What kind of Woman is This? A Black and Abolitionist Look at Sweden's Feminist Foreign Policy in the UN Security Council

KEY WORDS:

Feminist Foreign Policy; Women, Peace and Security; Amefricanity; Abolitionism

PAGES: 150
BIG AREA: Ciências Sociais Aplicadas
AREA: Direito
SUMMARY:

The main goal of this dissertation is to analyze Sweden's feminist foreign policy based on Afro- diasporic authors of the US and Latin American black feminism, such as Angela Davis, Patrícia Hill Collins, Lélia Gonzalez, Sueli Carneiro, Ana Flauzina and Thula Rafaela Pires. Based on the methodological question, “what contributions can black feminism make to the debate on feminist foreign policy?”, we adopted as the focus of analysis Sweden’s role as a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council (UNSC), between 2017 and 2018. This study was carried out in the form of an exploratory research, whose main methodology used was content analysis of official papers published by the Swedish government and the UNSC, that is, secondary data sources. Throughout the research, it was observed that the Women, Peace and Security Agenda (WPS) was the main focus of Sweden's feminist foreign policy within the Council, and this agenda also influenced the elaboration of Sweden's own feminist foreign policy, then nascent. Therefore, it also proved to be necessary to undertake an analysis of this agenda. Due to the fa ct that the UN Security Council is a very particular environment, with its unique operating logic and working methods, it was crucial, in the first chapter, before undertaking the analysis of the selected  documents, to critically present the Security Council, emphasizing the possibilities and limits of this institution to advance a feminist agenda. To answer the methodological question, two major theoretical frameworks were mobilized in this study, the political-cultural category of Amefricanity, as formulated by Lélia Gonzalez (2020) and the concept of penal abolitionism, as thought by Angela Davis (2023, 2003). At the end of the dissertation, we came to the conclusion that black feminism, in general, and the concept of Amefricanity, in particular, contributes to the problematization of the universal and hegemonic concept of “woman” and, in doing so, denounces racism inherent in this universal formulation; for the reframing of sexual violence against women, during occupation processes and in militarized environments; for criticizing the association commonly made between militarism and masculinity. Finally, th e WPS Agenda's focus on the criminal justice system was analyzed through the lens of abolitionism. It was concluded that the current approach is inadequate, as punitivism feeds back on militarism, as well as reaffirms, recreates and legitimizes racism and sexism. Finally, given the persistent difficulties in the Security Council's working methods, related to the lack of transparency and democracy, we argue that, for these proposed epistemological turns to occur, other spaces of dialogue and debate must be fostered.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Externo à Instituição - ADRIANA ERTHAL ADBENUR - PR
Externo à Instituição - Gianmarco Loures Ferreira - AGU
Presidente - 1999301 - REBECCA FORATTINI LEMOS IGREJA
Interna - 1074055 - TALITA TATIANA DIAS RAMPIN