Desafiando a norma: normalização, resistência e guerra social no Brasil

Abstract

This article aims to investigate the mechanisms of normalization and the contemporary anti-identity struggles starting from the analysis of power undertaken by Michel Foucault. First of all, the criticism developed in the first half of the 1970’s towards the traditional political philosophy and legal discourse of power is brought into analysis, at the time when the focus of their analysis was directed towards other disciplinary and biopolitical mechanisms. Secondly, the study focus on how Foucault saw contemporary struggles, taken as forms of resistance against the mechanisms of normalization, understood in his final years as an art of not being governed in a certain way. Finally, the study will address the ongoing social war in Brazil, taking it as another example of normalizing attack that makes it even more appropriate to remember Foucault, especially his attitude of resistance.