Insurgent Affects: Framings of a Relational Anarchist Activism

Abstract

This article examines the use of communication by Brazilian relational anarchist activism for non-monogamous political mobilization. We chose as our object the digital project Afetos Insurgentes, active since 2019. Based on the theory of frame alignment processes (Snow et al., 1986), we analyzed the alignment strategies used in the authorial texts published by the project from 2019 to 2023 on platform Medium with the aim of understanding how the project constructs its communicative approaches for political mobilization. Our analysis identified the use of all strategies, with emphasis on frame transformation, exemplified by the effort to transform the socially established framing of monogamy.