Published by Maria Del Rosario Ramirez Morales:

Biomedical narratives around gender and sexuality in religious contexts: the case of digital activisms in Mexico and Spain

Summary: The aim of this project is to recognize and examine the key scientific and religious arguments on the body related to gender and sexuality debates mobilized by religious and non-religious activists on social media platforms. More specifically, the project will identify profiles and narratives in which religious and non-religious beliefs intersect with the human body’s life science and biomedical knowledge within digital activists -advocates and organizations- in the Spanish and Mexican contexts. The project is relevant because, within the fragmentation of spaces for the construction of meaning and the growing mobilization of religious identities in the public sphere, the COVID-19 pandemic context caused an explosion of digital activism. The creation and circulation of content in which the mixture of different fields of knowledge and symbolic universes proliferated on social media. Furthermore, previous field research allowed us to identify the circulation of content between activisms in Mexico and Spain linked

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