Abstract
The article proposes an analysis of the official discourse of the separatist movement “O Sul é o meu país” (OSMP), investigating how the multiple discursive categories mobilized within the official discourse of the movement are articulated to legitimize the separatist agenda of OSMP. To achieve this, a documentary research was carried out, resulting in the collection and cataloging of 91 opinion articles published on the official OSMP website between 2015 and 2020. Based on discourse analysis, five symbolic dimensions of ethnicity were categorized: discontent, historical, identity, cultural and differentialist. Therefore, the achieved results demonstrate that the articulation of multiple categories is grounded in a tenuous relation between essential and circumstantial aspects of an imagined ethnicity.
Keywords
ethnicity; separatism; southern Brazil; separatist movement