Abstract

SILVA, Juliana Catarine Barbosa da  and  MENEZES, Jaileila de Araújo. Discourse on risk in the context of emergency and disaster management. Psicol. rev. (Belo Horizonte) [online]. 2021, vol.27, n.1, pp.145-164. ISSN 1677-1168.  https://doi.org/10.5752/P.1678-9563.2021v27n1p145-164.

The aim of this article is to understand and to foster the debate on the concepts of risk elaborated in the context of the National System of Civil Protection and Defense (Sistema Nacional de Proteção e Defesa Civil - Sinpdec). The research, which has a qualitative grounding, is based on discourse perspectives developed by Michel Foucault and the English School of Discursive Psychology. In total, 36 semi-structured interviews were conducted, 21 being with workers and 15 with users. The terms which were found drew our attention since they situated risk as something negative from a social perspective, and that can cause harm. It was also observed that within Sindpec, risk is strongly associated with natural phenomena - this is a limiting factor which, within the system, can restrain the problematization of the political and social questions surrounding the issue. We hope that the research will contribute to the broadening of meanings about risk in this context.

Keywords : Risk; Civil defense; Discourse constructions.

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