Recife, City of People? A study based on the archeology of Foucault

Authors

  • Duarte Raab Pires Universidade Federal de Pernambuco
  • Maria Luciana de Almeida Universidade Federal de Pernambuco - BrasilUniversidade de Pernambuco - BrasilNHTV internationaal hoger onderwijs Breda - Holanda
  • Lilian Soares Outtes Wanderley Universidade Federal de Pernambuco - UFPE http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8608-2750

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21527/2237-6453.2020.50.24-40

Keywords:

Discourse,

Abstract

This article aims at analyzing the discourse involved in the city council program called “Recife, city of the people”, from Foucault's archeology of knowledge perspective. The corpus of this research consists of six videos available on the Facebook® page of the city council of Recife in 2014, when government agency released the slogan "Recife, Cidade das Pessoas”. The study is justified by the need of understanding how the political discourses are spread and how these discourses have no explicit assumptions. We believe that a better design of the influence of discourses, along with further clarification of social significance exercised by them, can contribute to a more democratic social life, which will be accessible to the entire population. For the present study, no theory was previously defined. The option for this construction enables the non-interference of external factors guiding the analyses. Data was analyzed without theoretical influences, so that the theoretical constructs emerged from the analysis rather than the reverse. However, the vision of authorship in relation to the concept of speech interferes with the analysis and serves as a theoretical lens through which data will be displayed. For results, two discursive formations were found: (1) the protection of the Government and (2) healthy lifestyles practices, with includes social, cultural and physical. This discursive formation is founded on the pillars of bio-politics and sustainability, quality of life and social change. It was noticed that the program has a goal it is to influence people's opinions about public spaces and mobility in a municipality.

Author Biographies

Duarte Raab Pires, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco

Mestre em Administração pela Universidade Federal de Pernambuco. Aluno do Doutorado em Administração da Universidade Federal de Pernambuco. Agente da Polícia Rodoviária Federal.

Maria Luciana de Almeida, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco - BrasilUniversidade de Pernambuco - BrasilNHTV internationaal hoger onderwijs Breda - Holanda

Mestre em Administração pela Universidade Federal de Pernambuco. Doutora em Administração pela Universidade Federal de Pernambuco.Professora da Universidade de Pernambuco (UPE).

Lilian Soares Outtes Wanderley, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco - UFPE

Doutora em Administração pela Universidade de Cambridge, Grâ-Bretanha. Professora da Universidade Federal de Pernambuco.

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Published

2020-01-02

How to Cite

Pires, D. R., Almeida, M. L. de, & Wanderley, L. S. O. (2020). Recife, City of People? A study based on the archeology of Foucault. Development in Question Journal, 18(50), 24–40. https://doi.org/10.21527/2237-6453.2020.50.24-40