Nombre: VINNICIUS CAMARGO DE SOUZA LAURINDO
Fecha de publicación: 24/05/2024
Junta de examinadores:
Nombre |
Papel |
|---|---|
| CARINE COLLET | Examinador Externo |
| JESIO ZAMBONI | Examinador Externo |
| LEANDRO TEÓFILO DE BRITO | Examinador Externo |
| MARIANA ZUANETI MARTINS | Presidente |
| VIVIANE TEIXEIRA SILVEIRA | Examinador Externo |
Sumario: Volleyball has become a fertile space for debate on issues related to gender and sexuality. The challenging of gender norms, the coming out of many athletes, and the adherence to a traditional model aimed at reinforcing the rights and privileges of a few have become quite common. However, despite the noticeable progress in this movement, there are still few documented records in the Brazilian scientific community regarding the historical narratives of participation of the LGBTIAPN+ collective in sports. This absence makes it challenging to contrast with a history of invisibility and erasure. Additionally, it's notable that intersectionality with other social markers is often silenced in research on the LGBTIAPN+ theme in Brazilian sports, reflecting a lingering colonial mentality in the field. Given this academic gap, our study aimed to examine the meanings associated with 'xoxação' in a predominantly LGBTIAPN+ amateur volleyball context. Drawing from gender, sexuality, and queer studies, we conducted ethnographic fieldwork with a group in a public court in Vitória/ES. The most relevant aspects can be divided into three points. Firstly, we describe our immersion in the field using an auto-ethnographic approach, highlighting the competition through the exaggeration of a competitive ethos and the sense of affiliation developed during our interaction with the group. As emotional and solidarity bonds deepened, a sense of mutual protection emerged, strengthening support networks. Being in this context meant being in contact with different people who share similar meanings of life. Furthermore, writing in the first person made me feel vulnerable and activated my agency. Next, we discuss interpretations of group members' experiences, addressing the pedagogies of masculinity, cooperation, and resistance present in this setting. The pedagogy of masculinity reveals a tension between traditional norms via the exacerbation of competitive ethos, while cooperation reinforces the festive element, fair play, and fun as important. We emphasize that the tension between the conflicts pointed out is not dichotomous; both competitiveness and fun coexist. In the pedagogy of resistance, challenging masculinity and resisting as marginalized individuals are crucial. This means being together, connecting, and occupying denied public space. Finally, we explore the performative construction of gender through the practice of "xoxação." We interpret this act as having a polysemy of meanings: it can reinforce traditional sports masculinity, be used as a form of resistance by confronting gender norms, and also strengthen bonds within the group. In this sense, these meanings occur continuously and articulate to establish a type of masculinity in transition that we term here as affected masculinity. Xoxação in volleyball, therefore, subverts gender norms, promoting cooperation among dissenting bodies in the sports field. As an act of resistance, it contributes to these sporting bodies producing an affected masculinity, something that unites them as dissidents but also excludes those who deviate from these performativities, thus contributing to the formation of an LGBTIAPN+ territoriality.
Key words: Masculinity; Gender; Queer linguistics; LGBTIAPN+; Xoxação; Performativity; Volleyball; Sport.
