The new hating patriarchs: decolonial feminist approaches to understand the era

Abstract

In order to understand the ways in which gender currently functions as a device of conservative subjectivation, we need to address, at an empirical level, the ways in which neoliberalism as a structural and subjective order is reproduced in hegemonic masculine values and practices. Indeed, to understand the ways in which gender currently functions as a device of conservative subjectivation, we need to address, at an empirical level, the ways in which neoliberalism as a structural and subjective order is reproduced in hegemonic masculine values and practices and expressed in speeches by public figures on a global scale. As an understanding strategy, we intend to analyze the speeches and emotional affectations produced by relevant political figures from the American social scene, such as Javier Milei in Argentina, Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil, and Donald Trump in the United States. These referents represent a sector of reactionary masculinity that produces negative affectations in emotional and discursive terms in the face of feminist and social advances, forming political alliances with those who feel they are radical losers of globalization. In conclusion, we analyze that the masculine subjectivities that have lived through the neoliberal turn feel frustration and hatred in the face of the flexibility of the labor market and the loss of social belonging, associating these emotions with the emergence of feminisms, the occupation of the workplace by women, the rights of migrants and the gender-dissident population.