Intersectional Situations, Convivial Tensions, Political Choices
摘要
This chapter examines how the shifts in the intersectional situation of individuals and groups described in Chapter 5 reverberate in both everyday life and the political arena. To assess their impact on daily social relations, I analyze how political polarization is experienced in school environments and in disputes between the “established” and the “emergent” middle classes. At the level of formal politics, I show how a vocabulary for articulating anxieties and expectations, developed not within the political system itself but across different social spheres (such as established media, ultra-liberal think tanks, and Evangelical influencers), was appropriated by the far-right politicians and, in 2018, showed an impressive electoral mobilization power. This vocabulary has remained influential, as evidenced by the 2022 election results across both executive and legislative branches. Although with less agility, less digital capillarity, and more commitment with the veracity of the content they disseminate, political actors commonly identified as “the left” have also been adjusting their discourses in order to give voice to the anxieties and aspirations produced by the shifting intersectional situations.