BODY(S) AND DISCOURSE(S)

FROM LULA'S GOVERNANCE TO BIOPOLICY FOR LGBTQIAPN+ INDIGENOUS PEOPLE IN BRAZILIAN RURAL AREAS

Abstract

The text is theoretically affiliated with Discourse Analysis. The authors Pêcheux, Foucault and Courtine, among others, are mobilized. The analytical corpus is composed of six text-images that circulated in the media and an official document (Interministerial Ordinance). 2 are photographs during Lula’s presidential inauguration, on January 1, 2023, in his third term. The third is the federal government logo. The fourth is by Lula in 2018. The fifth photograph is of Lula in 1979, at an assembly of the ABC Metalworkers Union, in São Bernardo do Campo/SP. The sixth and last is the image of LGBTQIAPN+ indigenous people in rural Brazilian areas. I analyze materialities of bodies and emotions in discourses. I analyze the process of meaning of Lula’s governability in his governing practices for the LGBTQIAPN+ indigenous population in Brazilian rural areas. Through the Bem Viver+ Program, Lula’s biopolitics pays attention to this group of subjects of sexual diversity. Unlike being socially silenced and erased, Lula’s Government asserts rights to their bodies, presentified in the order of the body of language and the body of image, symbolically propelling such Brazilians into social and rural practices, giving visibility and legitimization to the constitution of their knowledge for legal rights and powers of existence and significance. In view of this, I seek to discuss the functioning of the body as a discursive materiality, through signifiers of rights, social program, memory of struggles to claim visibility, powers, by establishing relationships of existence with the dignity of the human person and with the human rights in the Democratic Rule of Law.