Biopolítica, discurso e controle da população pobre

Abstract

With the increase of discourses of intolerance and hate directed to poor population in recent years, blaming them for the economic crisis and disorder in the country, this text aims to problematize the statements and behaviors that involve the poor body, taking into account the broader objective to know some traits about who we are today, what our society is. This problematization seeks theoretical and analytical support in Michel Foucault to go through the events that linked poverty to a work ethic, as we know it today, under the scope of neoliberalism. The practices studied by Foucault, in History of madness, on the internment of the poor in general hospitals and their release into a disciplinary society, and in his courses on biopolitical governmentality, supported by security devices, constitute the conditions for the appearance of the discourses that will give poverty today a certain moral value.