Universidade pública, neoliberalismo e produção de subjetividade: uma cartografia discursiva da “crise da UERJ”

• Ano de defesa: 2021
• Autor(a) principal: Torres, Ariane Oliveira de Sousa
• Outros Autores: [e-mail]
• Orientador(a): Rodrigues, Bruno Rêgo Deusdará
• Banca de defesa: Rocha, Décio Orlando Soares da , Almeida, Fábio Sampaio de
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Programa de Pós-Graduação em Letras
• Departamento: Centro de Educação e Humanidades::Instituto de Letras
• País: Brasil
• Palavras-chave em Português: Universidade pública; Neoliberalismo; Prática discursiva; Cartografia; Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro; Crises; Análise do discurso; Universidades e faculdades públicas
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: Public university; Neoliberalism; Discursive practice; Cartography
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: LINGUISTICA, LETRAS E ARTES::LINGUISTICA
• Link de acesso: http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/handle/1/17134

This thesis aims at discussing the effects of meaning produced by the continual advance of a neoliberal rationale in political and economic debates on public universities, focusing on the period known as “the UERJ crisis”, in the years of 2016 and 2017. For this purpose, we have the support of Foucault’s (2008) analytics of governmentality to carry out an investigation on the technical procedures and forms of instrumentalization of the domination deployed by the government over subjects, as well as on the capacity of governmental apparatuses to direct how individuals should act. We have, therefore, opted for the ethical-political position of cartography (DELEUZE; GUATTARI, 2011; PASSOS, KASTRUP; ESCÓSSIA, 2015; ROLNIK, 2016), which favors the researcher’s implications with their object of research, rather than a perspective of science based on a purported neutrality; values the process of researching, rather than the confirmation of hypotheses; and makes it possible to map relations of forces that act in the construction of instituted forms. In regards to language – conceived not as a mere instrument that represents the real, but rather as a means of intervening in relations between the subject and their surroundings (ROCHA, 2006) –, our corpus was constructed from opinion pieces, published in online newspapers, which had “the UERJ crisis” as their theme. As a result, going against the initial hypothesis that there were two opposing discursive formations (FOUCAULT, 2015), we noticed an overarching neoliberal discursive practice (MAINGUENEAU, 2008; FOUCAULT, 2015) through all analyzed statements. This suggests that even if, in the macropolitical sphere, there might be polarizing political positions, in the micropolitical sphere, subjectivities have been captured by a rationale that seeks, through financial management, to hierarchize and rank social relations on the basis of productivity, weakening the possibilities of work relations rooted in collectivity