Rodrigo Borba
List of John Benjamins publications for which Rodrigo Borba plays a role.
Articles
2022 Enregistering “gender ideology”: The emergence and circulation of a transnational anti-gender language Journal of Language and Sexuality 11:1, pp. 57–79 | Article
Mobilizations against gender equality and sexual diversity have gained political traction globally despite their hyperbolic modes of action and conspiracist rhetoric. These anti-gender campaigns rally around “gender ideology,” a trope used to anathemize feminist and LGBTQIA+ activism/scholarship. read more
2022 Chapter 20. “Gender ideology” and the discursive infrastructure of a transnational conspiracy theory Conspiracy Theory Discourses, Demata, Massimiliano, Virginia Zorzi and Angela Zottola (eds.), pp. 465–488 | Chapter
The formula “gender ideology” has recently gained political traction in several countries. This chapter investigates its conspiracist discursive infrastructure by probing two corpora of far-right media from Brazil and the US. Analysis indicates that “gender ideology” is framed within semantic… read more
2018 Linguistic landscapes as pornoheterotopias: (De)regulating gender and sexuality in the public toilet Gender, Sexuality & Linguistic Landscapes, Milani, Tommaso M. (ed.), pp. 257–277 | Article
Drawing on multimodal analysis of graffiti in male public restrooms at the Faculdade de Letras of the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, this paper investigates how notions of place and gendered/sexualized subjects are discursively (re)constructed in interactions with the materiality and… read more