Abstract

RIBEIRO, William de Goes. Curriculum, subjectivation and politics of difference: a dialogue with Homi Bhabha. Conjectura: filos. e Educ. [online]. 2017, vol.22, n.3, pp.576-597. ISSN 2178-4612.  https://doi.org/10.18226/21784612.v22.n3.10.

The so-called identity politics of differences are now emphasized between educational debates in the global-local sphere, reiterating, in the discursive struggle, signifiers such as curriculum, culture, alterity, and difference. The wager on terms such as dialogue and tolerance has not been casual. In Brazil, the demands of difference have been the object of multiple political articulations, especially since the post-military dictatorship in the midst of strategies and tensions that according to the context, agree and dissent. In power games, issues circumscribed by the emphasis on race/ethnicity, gender and sexuality, mainly, have occupied spaces of discussions. The purpose of this undoubtedly conflicting work is to argue for the understanding of the hybrid processes of subjectivation, widening spaces for difference and for ambivalence rather than focusing on the struggle between opposites based on pre-given subjects. Thus, distancing myself from Hegelian dialectics, I have attempted to weave in the present text a dialogue with the Indo-British researcher Homi Bhabha, as well as some of its epistemological and philosophical bases, whose theoretical and political scope has been to reread and re-significate the debates of diversity and Of multiculturalism under the postcolonial view of flows and hybridity. In this sense, curriculum is far from being thought by efficient and instrumental limits, such as a document, as a curricular grid, as a structural basis. In a nonrealistic approach, curriculum is thought of as a cultural policy, constituted by contingency, understood as the struggle for the enunciation of what is to become a curriculum, which happens inexorably in the third space or in the interstices, as Bhabha proposes.

Keywords : Curriculum; Subjectivation; Policy; Difference; Cultural Policy.

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