Biopolítica e governo da juventude: um estudo dos planos decenais de atendimento socioeducativo de Maceió e de Alagoas

Abstract

The ten-year plans for socio-educational assistance are documents that aim at the unification and standardization of practices in socio-education throughout the national territory. They must follow the principles and guidelines of some policies, such as the Statute of the Child and Adolescent (ECA), the National System of Socio-educational Assistance (Sinase) and the Federal Constitution of 1988. We chose to work with the plans of socio-educational assistance because we understand them as a discursive field of analysis that involves government strategies, above all, youth, allowing us to set up an analytical field. Thus, from these speeches, truths are produced according to the ways in which they are enunciated. We took as a research problem the discussion about the notions of social reintegration and socio-education present in the referred plans. This work has as general objective to analyze the ways of governing life linked to socio-educational assistance plans, as well as their strategies for social reintegration. From this objective, the following specific objectives unfold: a) to problematize discourses and practices guided by the Ten-Year Plan for Socio-Educational Assistance in Alagoas and the Ten-Year Plan for Socio-Educational Assistance in Maceió; b) discuss what notions of social reintegration and socio-education are produced in these plans; c) reflect on the government of lives based on socio-education in such documents. This study is based on the theoretical and methodological tools of Social Psychology, which calls into question the world in which we live and the ways in which we become what we are. The work was built from the dialogue with the theoretical and methodological tools proposed by the philosopher Michel Foucault, such as the concept of biopolitics. For the analysis of biopolitics, we adopt clues from its archegenealogical perspective. When we take socio-education as a government strategy, we notice that it is focused on the control and regulation of youth, to make it useful and productive. For this, several techniques and devices are used, such as the laws for youth and the socio-educational plans themselves. This is only possible from a political investment in the body, a fact that is closely related to complex economic relations.