HENRIQUES, Adolfo Veiller Souza; http://lattes.cnpq.br/1526892603003096; HENRIQUES, Adolfo Veiller Souza.
Résumé:
The purpose of this dissertation is to analyze the pedagogical discourses about AIDS
published in the journal Nós Por Exemplo in the period that comprises the clipping from
1991 to 1995. The news published in that journal contained guidelines for readers about
safe sex as well as about information about the disease. We understand that these
discourses were configured as educational practices from the moment they sought to
promote hygienic habits in the newspaper readers guided by medical knowledge about
the subject. Therefore, inspired by the ways of making history, made possible by Cultural
History, I will appropriate the concepts of biopolitics by Michel Foucault (1988), of
sensibilities from the writings of Sandra Pesavento (2007), of illness according to Jacques
Le Goff (1985), disease as a metaphor according to Susan Sontag (2007) and stigma
according to Erving Goffman (2013). Methodologically, I relied on Michel Foucault
(2014) to operate discourse analysis, which can only refer to things said, sentences that
were actually uttered or written, significant elements that were traced or articulated and,
more precisely, this uniqueness that makes them exist, offers them to observation, to
reading, to a reactivation and appropriation of the discourse of a given time and in a given
society, in order to problematize the pedagogical discourses about AIDS published in the
printed section in the analysis. It is concluded that since it is a periodical aimed at the gay
public, there was an interest in developing self-care in this public through the promotion
of life, a biopolitics.