Semiárido: uma perspectiva genealógica

Abstract

The debate on living with the semi-arid region has as one of its main assumptions sustainability, based on practices and alternatives for harmonious and integrated development of the economic, political and social spheres and on the protagonism of the inhabitants of the semi-arid region. This debate has been referred to as essential for the (re) elaboration of power-knowledge relations that, moving from the traditional discourse of dependence, create new possibilities for this "territory", anchored in the reflection of issues such as respect for diversity, solidarity, collectivity, networking, self-management, etc. This article presents some considerations about research and extension activities that we have developed in recent years about these issues, having as a theoretical and methodological basis the analysis of discourse, in the perspective of Michel Foucault. These activities seek to capture the visibility and tellability of the power / knowledge relations of public education policies, rural education, the protagonism of young settlers, women in distress, and so on. We are interested in problematizing how these elaborations establish subject positions, truth regimes and / or positivity of discourses / knowledge about the idea of living with the semi-arid, in the perspective of diversity and multiple subjectivities. In order to do so, it is relevant to deepen the debate about the ways in which, in the relations of power-knowledge exercised and positivadas about this "territory", such questions are experienced inferring in the conflicts, dissonances and resistances experienced culturally and that interpose in the institution of the idea of living with the semi-arid. In this sense, we think of the Semiarid through the use and appropriation of speeches and exercised in power relations, through strategies and correlations of force, positive in political and socio-cultural relations.