Abstract

CAPELINI, Thalita Calmon  and  TAVARES, Gilead Marchezi. Conceptions of State that permeate social movements: inciting analyses. Estud. pesqui. psicol. [online]. 2016, vol.16, n.3, pp. 668-695. ISSN 1808-4281.

Based on a global context of political contestation, which began in the end of 2010, we intend to analyze how the State has been perceived by social movements that struggle for rights. Therefore, we conducted an intervention-research within the Human Rights Defense Center of Serra/ES, in which, for a year, we joined the General Assemblies, setting down the events, exchanges and our impressions on field diaries. Furthermore, we also interviewed four local activists. Both field diary notes and the material of the interviews, recorded and transcribed, were used to underlie the analyses. Along this article, we feature concepts that we believe are hardened in the realm of social movements: a totalizer and transcendent State and the idea that power lies in the State apparatus and belongs to it. To compose the analyses, we bring the contributions of Michel Foucault concerning the concepts of government and governmentality.

Keywords : apparatus of state; movements; cartography; power; governmentality.

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