As práticas educativas da AIDS no jornal Nós Por Exemplo (1991- 1995).

Abstract

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.