Dispositivo-bullying e governamentalidade securitária: diálogos com o pensamento de Michel Foucault

Abstract

From the mid-twentieth century and throughout the first decade of the twenty-first century, the issue of bullying has been gaining increasing prominence in the mass media, among family members and among health, education and justice professionals working with children and youth segments. who are called to work in educational and school contexts. Given the need for a critical debate on this effervescent theme, this article aims to present connections between modes of operation of the bullying device and strategies of neoliberal governmentality linked to security mechanisms in contemporary times. For this, dialogues will be drawn with Michel Foucault's archegenealogical thinking and its resonances in fields such as Psychology and Education. Under the Foucaultian reference, the repositioning of bullying as self-evident data for the condition of "device" implies thinking it as a network woven between heterogeneous elements - discourses, institutions, regulations, laws and administrative decisions, as well as scientific statements and propositions on peer violence in the school / educational context. To reach the proposed goal, the text will initially analyze the relationship between the consolidation of the bullying category to account for certain modulations of violence between peers in school / educational contexts and the emergence of characteristic biopolitical technologies of power safety devices. In a second moment, it will discuss how certain modes of operation of the bullying device have facilitated the intensification of processes of judicialization of life, characterized by the ever more detailed and insidious juridical framework of social relations in daily life.