Feeling Ontologically Insecure: The Anti- “Gender Ideology” Discourse in Colombia’s Second Half of 2016

Sammanfattning: Anti-genderism and anti- “gender ideology” discourses have been taken place in various parts around the world including Latin America and Europe. Political parties and social and religious movements have been mobilising against “gender ideology” in elections and protests defending the traditional family model. This thesis investigates such discourses from an ontological (in)security lenses by conducting Discourse Historical Approach (DHA). In a case study focusing on the second half of 2016 in Colombia, social media, official statements and bulletins of Ángela Hernández, Marco Fidel Ramírez, Alejandro Ordóñez –conservative politicians– and the Episcopal Conference of Colombia –a Catholic Church institution– are analysed in order to unveil the power relations behind the anti- “gender ideology” discourse. This discourse is based on a positive representation of the “self” and a negative representation of the “other”. The analysis will reveal that all four selected actors used the anti- “gender ideology” discourse as a strategy to securitise their subjectivity.