Mémoire
| Résumé : | This work objective is to, through the Brazilian Election of 2020, dissect the performance of LGBT+ individuals in the race towards political representativity. Previous literature will be revised to understand the different connotations of representativity, how it copes with Pikitin’s contextualization of representation, and which are the main constraints academia has identified for this minority. A macro-survey will be conducted, including qualitative and quantitative variables, as gender, race, political party, or size of the population, to offer an intersectional analysis of the LGBT+ candidates. These contenders will be re-organized in intra-minorities (L, G, B, T, +), and inter-minorities, (gender and race), to propose an accurate overlook of the real limitations these sub-groups are exposed to, individually and collectively, and how they influenced the electoral outcome on 2020. The correlation between visibility and representativity will also be tackled, exploiting they causality connection, among other future results of the achievement of representativity. This research is structured in three research questions: has representativity been achieved for the LGBT+ community?; is LGBT+ representation inclusive?; does representativity mean improvement in the race to equal rights?. By answering them, this work expects to confirm the risks of neglecting intersectionality while studying minorities, and contemplate how concepts as representativity, descriptive representation, visibility, or substantial representation, merge and coexist in the reality. |
