Biopolítica e governamentalidade: produção de identidades para São Luís (MA) no discurso midiático sobre as academias ao ar livre

Abstract

Since the eighteenth century, the biological has become a political issue (FOUCAULT, 1988). Since then many power devices have been articulated to produce efficient, healthy, productive and docile bodies. A fundamental part of public powers in modernity, the discourse of the healthy body is added to so many other discourses to produce truths about the different faces of the administration of governments or prefectures, in São Luís. In this movement of knowlegde-power, digital and electronic media in the capital of Maranhão constantly reinforce the need for health care, but also associate with other discourses that highlight the performance of public powers in relation to the city. This dissertation seeks to analyze, in a archaeogenealogical movement, identities produced for the city of São Luís from discourses about the open air academies installed in public spaces of the city. In this sense, we mobilized the French Line Discourse Analysis, based on the contributions of Michel Foucault, as a theoretical-methodological assumption in order to analyze the meanings that are presented in the corpus. We conclude that such discourses on Open Air Academies work, together with non-discursive practices, as agents of the bodies in the sense of leading them to practice physical activities in spaces located near their residences, within their community, free of charge and in the air free as the effect of biopolitical exercise, from which a healthy and active body is preached. Based on statements about the health of the population, the municipal government promotes its actions and creates identity effects for the city of São Luís in complex discursive networks, joining existing memories and establishing other memories.