Petrobrás e o cenário de crise atual: a construção de um escândalo político midiático

• Ano de defesa: 2018
• Autor(a) principal: Mendes, Rayssa Pereira do Nascimento
• Orientador(a): Segurado, Rosemary
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Programa de Estudos Pós-Graduados em Ciências Sociais
• Departamento: Faculdade de Ciências Sociais
• País: Brasil
• Palavras-chave em Português: PETROBRÁS; Operação Lava Jato (Brasil); Democracia; Crise econômica - Brasil
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: Operation Car Wash (Brazil); Democracy
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CNPQ::CIENCIAS SOCIAIS APLICADAS
• Link de acesso: https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/21180

This research aims to investigate the relation between Petrobrás and the current political crisis in Brazil. As part of a strategic sector, the state company was the target of uncountable onslaughts in the beginning of Operation Car Wash, what has spotlighted it in front of public opinion, through certain media approaches. The theoretical framework setting this analysis is the propositions of John B. Thompson about the structuring of political scandals, having the reputation of Petrobrás as its core element under dispute. Firstly, we will describe a historical, economic and geopolitical overview of the state company, which demonstrates its importance and, accordingly, potential interests that it awakes in a global scenery whose actors guide their conflicts by the production and trade of petroleum. We will present elements that compose the context of Petrobrás, aiming to illustrate how such a political crisis was significantly viable thanks to the strategic position of the company. It has allowed the construction and legitimation of the Operation Car Wash in front of public opinion, which constitutes the national political crisis scenery of current years. The operation emerges in a very “convenient” moment: 2014, during the global crisis of petroleum. However, nor the international crisis of petroleum or any of those historical events were mentioned by the major media vehicles at that moment. Thus, the methodology of agenda setting and framing of these major media vehicles is fundamental to understand how the political crisis scenery – and the Operation Car Wash – were shaped by a discourse of crisis of Petrobrás. Finally, we will observe some actors involved in the construction of such scandal – and of the crisis, therefore – in order to understand how they articulate (currently and in the past) through the exercise of symbolic power, which is subjective by definition. Despite this subjectivity, these actors – judicial power and major media vehicles – act with a supposed neutrality and objectivity, expressively influencing the political and economic scenery. Such alliance aims to delegitimise the traditional political class, not contributing to a more consistent and effective articulation of the public debate, majorly affecting Petrobrás and Democracy itself at different levels