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CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE DEFENSE OF AN ANTI-SPECIESIST LANGUAGE: THE CASE OF THE TERM GADO IN BRAZILIAN POLITICS

Authors

  • Daniela Rosendo
  • Karynn Capilé
  • Denis Duarte
  • Maria Alice da Silva
  • Fabio A. G. Oliveira
  • Tânia A. Kuhnen

Keywords:

cattle, (post) humanism, human language, oppression

Abstract

This article aims to analyse the case of the use of the term gado [cattle] in Brazilian politics on a social networt, to contribute to the discussion about how speciesist language restates animal domination and subordination from an ethical-political perspective. This paper is structured in four sections: a) a survey of quantitative data on the use of the term gado on Twitter between January 2016 and August 2021; b) an analysis, from the animalist ecofeminist paradigm, of the meanings of the term and data regarding its increasing use in the Brazilian political context; c) the (in)visibilization of non-human subjects as individuals through language, specially, oxen or cows, by using the word gado; d) reflexions on an anti-oppressive language, which demands understanding ourselves from a continuum of interdependent relationships, besides not using the word gado when referring to people considered uncritical.

Author Biographies

  • Daniela Rosendo

    Doutora e Mestra em Filosofia (UFSC) e graduada em Direito (Univille), Brasil.

  • Karynn Capilé

    Doutora em Bioética, Ética Aplicada e Saúde Coletiva (PPGBIOS/UFF), Brasil.

  • Denis Duarte

    Mestre em Ciência de Dados pela University College Dublin (UCD), Irlanda, e graduado em Ciência da Computação pela Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ), Brasil.

  • Maria Alice da Silva

    Doutora e Mestra em Ética e Filosofia Política pelo PPGFIL-UFSC e graduada em Filosofia pela UFSC, Brasil.

  • Fabio A. G. Oliveira

    Professor de Filosofia da Educação da Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF), Brasil.

  • Tânia A. Kuhnen

    Professora de Filosofia da Universidade Federal do Oeste da Bahia (UFOB), Brasil.

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Vol. 10 No. 1 (2023)

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Violencias ontoepistémicas: pensar en la vida, la muerte y la resistencia de los animales no humanos

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CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE DEFENSE OF AN ANTI-SPECIESIST LANGUAGE: THE CASE OF THE TERM GADO IN BRAZILIAN POLITICS. (2024). Revista Latinoamericana De Estudios Críticos Animales, 10(1). https://revistaleca.org/index.php/leca/article/view/422 (Original work published 2023)