Infância em discurso: mídia, poder, verdade e subjetividade

• Autor(a) principal: Martins, Maria Marta
• Data de Publicação: 2010
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UFG
• Texto Completo: http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/tede/handle/tede/9082
• topic: Michel Foucault; Saber e poder; Verdade; Subjetividade e infância; Mídia; Michel Foucault; knowledge and power; Truth; Media; Subjectivity; Childhood; LINGUISTICA, LETRAS E ARTES::LINGUISTICA

Whoever keeps well informed by the media may easily notice the constant changes of concepts, especially the ones that come from scientific studies related to the correct procedures to keep healthy and have a long productive life. However, throughout these changes, there are some truths that not only fall in the course of time, but also become untrue. Therefore, based on the Foucault studies, we affirm that the conception of truth is not established permanently, but built and rebuilt according to data collected from current discursive reality, and also connected to power and knowledge relations that circulate in a given time. From this point, we are concerned in discussing, in this study, hypotheses which will help us to understand how certain statements connected to the truth of a specific time are inserted in the discourse order and, later on, discarded and not even published anymore. This way, we focus our analysis on childhood and childcare that were gradually acquired by the global society. This way, in this study, our aim is to make a reflection about the historical- discursive mechanism that can promote specific sayings and, later on, extinguish them. More specifically: to understand how knowledge and power can act in the establisment of the truths of a period, in relation to children.; to notice the biopower actions on the childhood, taking into consideration the contradictions of a socially heterogeneous population such as the Brazilian one; to situate the media as a contributer of the biopolitical technologies in the regulation of the children population. In order to trace the outline which characterizes this research, we need to consider the archive as the first methodological principle, according to the conception of Foulcaut. Moreover, in consonance with his theory, we chose not to set the corpus in only one data collection, but to set themes that, in one way or another, cross the existence of children in the world and in the course of History. Therefore, it was under this assumption that we selected media printed publications such as advertisements, articles, informational booklets and so on, in order to proceed with the analysis, which results show that the irruption and the extinction of statements socially produced occur within a movement imposed by the articulation between discourse and history. This movement determines what comes and goes in the discourse order, and it is caused by the relation that involves, in a way, the power and the knowledge in the establishment of temporary truth, and in another, the global media as the greatest propagator of these truths.