Wearing Foucault’s Clogs: Biopolitics in Brazilian Educational Research

The article initiates by presenting the context and effects of the uses of biopolitics, a notion that Foucault frames during a period of theoretical transition, when he operates important displacements in his analytics of power. In the second section, we take 45 articles that appeared in Brazilian m...

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Main Authors: Julio Groppa Aquino, Fabiana Augusta Alves Jardim
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Language:English
Published: Universidade de Lisboa 2016-03-01
Series:Sisyphus
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Online Access:https://revistas.rcaap.pt/sisyphus/article/view/8900
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description The article initiates by presenting the context and effects of the uses of biopolitics, a notion that Foucault frames during a period of theoretical transition, when he operates important displacements in his analytics of power. In the second section, we take 45 articles that appeared in Brazilian main journals in the field of education, during the past fifteen years, and that referred either to the notion of biopolitics or biopower. We noticed that the problems confronted by Foucault during this biopolitical interlude have undoubtedly found an echo in the angst, hopes and obstacles faced by Brazilian researchers during the post-dictatorial times. We believe this happened, among other reasons, because of the paradox they were witnessing: the first steps Brazil was walking towards democratization of relations and institutions, at the very same time neoliberal practices and reforms were introduced into the horizon.
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spelling doaj.art-0379f04bd06f4ea4b97c411610f14d532022-12-21T18:54:04ZengUniversidade de LisboaSisyphus2182-84742182-96402016-03-013310.25749/sis.8900Wearing Foucault’s Clogs: Biopolitics in Brazilian Educational ResearchJulio Groppa Aquino0Fabiana Augusta Alves Jardim1University of São PauloUniversity of São PauloThe article initiates by presenting the context and effects of the uses of biopolitics, a notion that Foucault frames during a period of theoretical transition, when he operates important displacements in his analytics of power. In the second section, we take 45 articles that appeared in Brazilian main journals in the field of education, during the past fifteen years, and that referred either to the notion of biopolitics or biopower. We noticed that the problems confronted by Foucault during this biopolitical interlude have undoubtedly found an echo in the angst, hopes and obstacles faced by Brazilian researchers during the post-dictatorial times. We believe this happened, among other reasons, because of the paradox they were witnessing: the first steps Brazil was walking towards democratization of relations and institutions, at the very same time neoliberal practices and reforms were introduced into the horizon.https://revistas.rcaap.pt/sisyphus/article/view/8900Michel FoucaultBiopoliticsBrazilian educationEducational research
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Fabiana Augusta Alves Jardim
Wearing Foucault’s Clogs: Biopolitics in Brazilian Educational Research
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Biopolitics
Brazilian education
Educational research
title Wearing Foucault’s Clogs: Biopolitics in Brazilian Educational Research
title_full Wearing Foucault’s Clogs: Biopolitics in Brazilian Educational Research
title_fullStr Wearing Foucault’s Clogs: Biopolitics in Brazilian Educational Research
title_full_unstemmed Wearing Foucault’s Clogs: Biopolitics in Brazilian Educational Research
title_short Wearing Foucault’s Clogs: Biopolitics in Brazilian Educational Research
title_sort wearing foucault s clogs biopolitics in brazilian educational research
topic Michel Foucault
Biopolitics
Brazilian education
Educational research
url https://revistas.rcaap.pt/sisyphus/article/view/8900
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