Abstract

ALVES, Alison Sullivan de Sousa  and  SILVA, Francisco Vieira da. Discourses about Human Sciences according to Bolsonarism: from repetition to practice. Rev. Elet. Educ. [online]. 2020, vol.14, e4524141.  Epub Oct 29, 2020. ISSN 1982-7199.  https://doi.org/10.14244/198271994524.

In this paper we analyze discourses about Human Sciences within the social and political movement called Bolsonarism (movement in favor of the Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro). Our objective is to relate repetitions of specific truths about this area to practices revealed by institutional attacks that minimize this field of knowledge and the subjects who work with it. Taking it into consideration, we support this work with theoretical perspectives proposed by Michel Foucault about enunciation, discourse, discourse practice, discourse formation, power, knowledge and truth. The corpus of this work surrounds a variety of enunciations made by the president Bolsonaro, former education ministers and further supporters, which rebounded on digital medium. The study has a descriptive-qualitative character, with predominating qualitative approaches. Our analysis allows to perceive that the repetition of adverse discourses about Human Sciences reveals a project of unilateral and authoritarian power which primarily aims to hinder a raising of subjects with critical opinions that may counteract the wills of a bolsonarist practical discourse. As it conceives this knowledge field as a target to be aimed, as a potential enemy, the bolsonarist project proposes to mischaracterize Human Sciences’ researches along the public opinion and, therefore, to scrap educational institutions and impoverish scientific research.

Keywords : Discourse analysis; Human Science; Political power; Bolsonarism.

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