Biopolítica e políticas públicas de assistência social : problematizando o exercício do operador institucional

Abstract

This study aims to rethink the hegemonic speeches within capitalism emergency policies - linked to social assistance in the past 30 years of democratic government - hence these are the practices that when displaced from an effective commitment of aiding people that produce, instead of the promotion of the Human Rights, an exercise of monitoring of the legal order through a wide range of population statistical control and social risks prevention guided knowledge-practices. Thus, it is intended to discuss the practices developed in the contemporary, that on the behalf of the Human Rights promotion within a social aid public policies system, legitimate practices of knowledge/power to actualize the legal order as the controller of the bodies and population, including through the profession of psychology. Thus, the analysis of this problem will be performed by scenarios that are described by excerpts taken from field jornals and discussed by the French institutional analysis tools. Such cut-outs allowed rethink the possible accommodations, immobilities, concerns, resistances that occurred in contact with people assisted in the Specialized Reference Center for Social Assistance (CREAS). In this sense, the works of Michel Foucault and René Lourau emerge as an important theoretical framework to discuss the issues that concern the day-by-day operations. Notions such as governability, biopolitics, and implication developed in important works of these authors has served for a critical reading of the institutional practice and its modus operandi upon the individuals and their subjection modes.