Parliamentary Debate on Dilma Rousseff’s Impeachment: The Words of Brazilian Women Senators
Objective/context: The study aimed to analyze the debate among Brazilian women senators during the impeachment trial of Dilma Rousseff in 2016. Methodology: Elements of discourse analysis were applied to investigate the main question: How did the debate develop among women senators, considering the...
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| description | Objective/context: The study aimed to analyze the debate among Brazilian women senators during the impeachment trial of Dilma Rousseff in 2016. Methodology: Elements of discourse analysis were applied to investigate the main question: How did the debate develop among women senators, considering the ideological spectrum of the party and their position on the impediment (favorable or contrary)? The analysis presents a political-ideological profile of women senators, the arguments used by them in the debate, and the different uses of the defense of democracy. Conclusions: The left-wing women senators were more diligent and repeated their arguments more frequently to increase their discursive visibility. They also addressed the non-existence of a crime of responsibility, a condition to initiate an impeachment process. Women senators from the right and the center, on the other hand, resorted to rhetorical models to reiterate that the then-president of the Republic was no longer in a position to maintain a parliamentary base to support her government. The senators of this group also stated that the investigations demonstrated the use of schemes to irresponsibly disguise public accounts, exclusively with a view to Rousseff's reelection. Originality: It is relevant to highlight the original fact that this is an analysis of the impediment of a woman in the office of President of the Republic from the female perspective of the parliamentary body of the Senate, the institution in charge of judging the impeachment process. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-6f55f18b4ba14f89a1b1cd619e799a832024-01-19T14:50:51ZengUniversidad de los AndesColombia Internacional0121-56121900-60042024-01-01117336010.7440/colombiaint117.2024.02Parliamentary Debate on Dilma Rousseff’s Impeachment: The Words of Brazilian Women SenatorsAntonio Teixeira de Barros0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3061-8202Myriam Violeta Cavalhero1Centro de Formação da Câmara dos Deputados (Brasil)Senado Federal (Brasil)Objective/context: The study aimed to analyze the debate among Brazilian women senators during the impeachment trial of Dilma Rousseff in 2016. Methodology: Elements of discourse analysis were applied to investigate the main question: How did the debate develop among women senators, considering the ideological spectrum of the party and their position on the impediment (favorable or contrary)? The analysis presents a political-ideological profile of women senators, the arguments used by them in the debate, and the different uses of the defense of democracy. Conclusions: The left-wing women senators were more diligent and repeated their arguments more frequently to increase their discursive visibility. They also addressed the non-existence of a crime of responsibility, a condition to initiate an impeachment process. Women senators from the right and the center, on the other hand, resorted to rhetorical models to reiterate that the then-president of the Republic was no longer in a position to maintain a parliamentary base to support her government. The senators of this group also stated that the investigations demonstrated the use of schemes to irresponsibly disguise public accounts, exclusively with a view to Rousseff's reelection. Originality: It is relevant to highlight the original fact that this is an analysis of the impediment of a woman in the office of President of the Republic from the female perspective of the parliamentary body of the Senate, the institution in charge of judging the impeachment process.https://revistas.uniandes.edu.co/index.php/colombia-int/article/view/1695/9027discourse analysisgender and politicsimpeachmentlegislative powerpolitical inequality |
| spellingShingle | Antonio Teixeira de Barros Myriam Violeta Cavalhero Parliamentary Debate on Dilma Rousseff’s Impeachment: The Words of Brazilian Women Senators Colombia Internacional discourse analysis gender and politics impeachment legislative power political inequality |
| title | Parliamentary Debate on Dilma Rousseff’s Impeachment: The Words of Brazilian Women Senators |
| title_full | Parliamentary Debate on Dilma Rousseff’s Impeachment: The Words of Brazilian Women Senators |
| title_fullStr | Parliamentary Debate on Dilma Rousseff’s Impeachment: The Words of Brazilian Women Senators |
| title_full_unstemmed | Parliamentary Debate on Dilma Rousseff’s Impeachment: The Words of Brazilian Women Senators |
| title_short | Parliamentary Debate on Dilma Rousseff’s Impeachment: The Words of Brazilian Women Senators |
| title_sort | parliamentary debate on dilma rousseff s impeachment the words of brazilian women senators |
| topic | discourse analysis gender and politics impeachment legislative power political inequality |
| url | https://revistas.uniandes.edu.co/index.php/colombia-int/article/view/1695/9027 |
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