Psicologia em Revista
Print version ISSN 1677-1168
Abstract
BARROS, Maria Elizabeth Barros de. Resistance and creation: micropolitics of violence and subjectification of fear in the context of science and democracy. Psicol. rev. (Belo Horizonte) [online]. 2020, vol.26, n.1, pp.365-379. ISSN 1677-1168. https://doi.org/10.5752/P.1678-9563.2020v26n1p354-368.
This article brings some issues about the contemporaneity, marked by a kind of epidemic of violence and a pandemic of fear. It also highlights that the production of this kind of fear becomes a device of domination, that makes individualistic interests prevail, which undermine public space. This direction of analysis is based on Hannah Arendt’s and Agamben’s statements. At the end, it shows an experiment in a Public University in the Southeastern Region of Brazil that turned into a strategy to face this state of affairs, envisioning effectively public policies in the education field
Keywords : Resistência.