Tese
Sustentabilidade e inclusão: estratégias de governamento na sociedade contemporânea de racionalidade neoliberal
Autor
Mohr, Alana Claudia
Institución
Resumen
Several documents and guidelines have highlighted sustainability in articulation with inclusion as a
guarantee for the development of both the population and the country. This thesis, which was carried
out in the Research Line of Special Education, problematizes the emergence and functioning of the
notion of sustainability in articulation with inclusion in Contemporaneity. Its main objective is to
understand the way in which sustainability emerged as a discourse in the neoliberal rationality, thus
functioning as a government device and enabling the strengthening of the inclusion imperative. Like
inclusion, the notion of “sustainability” has become a recurrent term in several public policies and
discourses both in Brazil and in the world. The documents selected to compose the research material
refer to public policies; they include materials of Government programs, and both national and
international documents and guidelines intended to present sustainability and inclusion actions,
guidelines and principles. These materials were divided into three groups: inclusion policies; inclusion
and sustainability; programs/partnerships. Grounded on Michel Foucault’s thought and Foucauldian
Studies in Education, the analysis has relied on the analytical tool of government, as well as on
transversal notions, biopolitics, neoliberalism and human capital. The analysis has enabled the
understanding that sustainability in articulation with inclusion has been involved in the social
development, since people have been regarded as the main target of the guarantee of an economically,
politically and emotionally healthy life. In articulation, sustainability and inclusion have functioned as
government strategies in the contemporary society of neoliberal rationality by investing in the
development and productivity for social-productive inclusion in the marketplace games. Regarding
people with disabilities, entrepreneurship, productivity and development of subjects as human capital
are fundamental conditions for individuals to manage their lives by making the best choices and
searching for in/exclusion situations in the market networks, thus contributing towards the
development and security of the nation. The sustainability discourse operates the lifelong learning
strategy from the inclusion perspective, in an attempt not to leave anybody out of either the neoliberal
order or the economic game, so that nobody is left behind, and everybody becomes subjects of this
time, in this order shaped through productivity and sustainability. By establishing partnerships and
articulating social elements with education, sustainability has triggered actions to insert people with
disabilities in the labor network (labor market) as both a condition and a possibility of their socialproductive
development (social-productive inclusion) to guarantee the sustainable development of the
nation and the security of the population. Therefore, the social-productive inclusion implies an
intersectoral articulation and a look at human beings and their basic needs as a whole. The
government, hence, attempts to foster the social-productive inclusion in parallel to the promotion of
sustainable economic growth and development. Thus, the notion of social-productive inclusion
emerges as not only the simple access to the market, but also as access to economic and social rights,
which are fundamental for the sustainable development of the country.