O discurso oficial biopolítico sobre saúde em instituições relacionadas à Educação Física: uma análise de documentos

Abstract

It is known that today health is still considered based on a hegemonic model that only aims to prevent diseases and risk factors. We know that it is very difficult to find a scientifically based concept of health that can be generalized from what health is due to its complexity. For this reason, we seek support from authors who suggest that we study the subject from the senses and with a plural vision. Therefore, we chose as a conceptual theoretical framework the thoughts of Georges Canguilhem and Michael Foucault to guide us. The general objective of this study was to understand the official discourses on health disclosed in documents by authorities considered competent within the academic and professional spheres of Physical Education, in a biopolitical perspective based on the work of Michel Foucault. The thesis of the study sustains that discourses on health linked to Physical Education and disclosed in documents by authorities considered competent in the area tend to disseminate the idea that people should increasingly take responsibility for their own health care, distancing themselves of a relationship between the subject and others. This fact contributes to the delay in the process of expanding the meanings of health in the area and it is an event that can be seen through the presence of elements that designate biopower and the disciplines that are currently present in the discourses. The thesis design is structured in 2 parts and 3 articles that configure 3 specific objectives. The first part aimed to contemplate the professional sphere and the second, the academic one. The final considerations of the thesis supported that the discourses on health linked to Physical Education and disclosed in documents by authorities considered competent in the area tend to disseminate the idea that people should increasingly take responsibility for their own health care, distancing themselves a relationship between the subject and others. This fact contributes to the delay in the process of expanding the meanings of health in the area and it is an event that can be seen through the presence of elements that designate biopower and the disciplines that are currently present in the discourses. We present the speeches disseminated by specialists through a strictu-senso postgraduate program such as resistance. We then have the complete picture of the powers of force proposed by Foucault, where the idea that power, as a relation of forces, always works as a producer of affects, that resistance appears to Foucault as a third power of force. If forces define themselves according to power as an affect and a being affected, resistance is the force's ability to enter into relationships that are not calculated by the strategies in force in the political field