Simone Maria Hüning

A tutela moral dos comitês de ética

From the creation of Research Ethics Committees in Brazilian universities, the ethical issues began to occupy a particular moment in the research process, and led to the establishment of specific subjects for their study and an administrative body for their appreciation. In this article we discuss some implications about ethics institutionalization and the meaning acquired by ethics when it is embodied by a committee, formulating a specific criticism about its institutional configuration. We argue that the creation of an administrative body, in order to analyze the ethical features of research projects, supposes that ethics is not able to state itself by its own power and that some people have acquired authority (moral or intellectual) to assure its force. We conclude that the Ethics Committees will always be stiff, bureaucratic and authoritarian precisely because they are committees, and we reaffirm that ethics is produced through singular processes carried out by the agents involved in such processes.

A produção do conhecimento sobre risco e vulnerabilidade social como sustentação das práticas em políticas públicas

This article aims to discuss the history of knowledge production in the field of Social Psychology in Brazil about risk and social vulnerability by means of an archeo-geneologic analysis. The research involved an analysis of documents produced by working groups from the field of Social Psychology that were presented at symposiums of the National Association of Postgraduate Research in Psychology in the period from 1988 to 2010. On the basis of the working group discussions about knowledge production, it is possible to perceive and discuss how knowledge about risks and social vulnerability has supported practices in public policies in the field of Social Psychology.

MAPPING OUT THE SUBJECT OF BRAZILIAN SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY IN THE PRODUCTION OF THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF RESEARCH AND POST-GRADUATE STUDIES IN PSYCHOLOGY

The following paper aims at problematizing the Brazilian Social Psychology and its knowledge production, based on the registers of the Work Group (WG) of the National Association of Research and Post-Graduation in Psychology (ANPEPP), between 1988 to 2010. Using Michel Foucault’s archeo-genealogical perspective and the contributions by Ian Hacking about the historical ontology of subjects, we analyzed the technologies of power and knowledge which are shaped in the different disciplines of Social Psychology and which, with a scientific legitimacy, emancipate subjects. The different types of knowledge relative to Social Psychology in the history of the ANPEPP’s WGs contribute to the constitution of categories and psychological classifications which objectivize subjects. We seek to accentuate the productive character of Social Psychology; that is, the very criticisms and problematizations related to psychological and social concepts comprise a set of practices and regimes of truth about the subject of Social Psychology.

Foucault e a Psicologia no Brasil: interlocuções e novas perspectivas

Este artigo analisa como a Psicologia no Brasil tem se aproximado do pensamento de Michel Foucault em producoes academicas publicadas em periodicos eletronicos indexados. E o resultado de uma pesquisa de levantamento bibliografico no sitio eletronico da Biblioteca Virtual em Saude (BVS-Psi) que incluiu artigos publicados ate o ano de 2013. Inicialmente, identifica as producoes academicas que articulam o pensamento foucaultiano com a psicologia, considerando o periodo historico das producoes, as fontes de publicacao e as instituicoes de producao. Em seguida, discute os campos tematicos das producoes que dialogam com a teorizacao foucaultiana. Conclui apontando para (a) a ampliacao e aprofundamento das interlocucoes dessa disciplina com o autor, em trabalhos que se afirmam simultaneamente nos campos teorico e politico; (b) a emergencia de novos objetos e perspectivas teorico metodologicas para a Psicologia; e (c) o empenho em construir novas visoes de sujeito e, consequentemente, novas praticas da Psicologia.

Processos de subjetivação no contexto da monocultura de cana-de-açúcar

Este artigo resulta de pesquisa realizada em uma comunidade situada geograficamente na propriedade de uma usina sucroalcooleira do estado de Alagoas, no nordeste do Brasil. O objetivo principal do estudo e discutir os processos de subjetivacao de sujeitos que moram e trabalham nesse territorio. Realizamos entrevistas nao-estruturadas com moradores, roda de conversa com trabalhadores da usina, visitas a comunidade e registros em diarios de campo. Utilizamos o referencial teorico de Michel Foucault para discutir os processos de subjetivacao no contexto em estudo. A pesquisa nos permitiu visibilizar diferentes vetores de subjetivacao que constituem a vida no cotidiano da comunidade e compoem as formas de existencia desses sujeitos. Destacamos, entre estes, a separacao entre o que chamam de vida “na usina” e vida “la fora”, as relacoes com o trabalho, a violencia e a religiao.

Criminalizing Poverty and Fragmenting the City in Brazil

This article discusses practices of hygienism and social cleansing in Brazilian urban spaces. It takes the case of a traditional fishing community, located in north-eastern Brazil, that is under the threat of being evicted from the area occupied for more than 60 years, while locals are accused of pursuing dangerous and violent ways of life. These practices are considered, from a Foucauldian perspective, as part of biopolitcal strategies connected with state racism, that in contemporary society underpin a discourse of social security and development. It also discusses how the criminalization of certain social groups is used to justify, on the one hand, the restriction to certain spaces, and, on the other, privileged forms of access to public space.

Process of subjectivation in the context of sugar cane monoculture

Resumo Este artigo resulta de pesquisa realizada em uma comunidade situada geograficamente na propriedade de uma usina sucroalcooleira do Estado de Alagoas, Nordeste do Brasil. O objetivo principal do estudo e discutir os processos de subjetivacao de sujeitos que moram e trabalham nesse territorio. Realizamos entrevistas nao estruturadas com moradores, roda de conversa com trabalhadores da usina, visitas a comunidade e registros em diarios de campo. Utilizamos o referencial teorico de Michel Foucault para discutir os processos de subjetivacao no contexto em estudo. A pesquisa nos permitiu visibilizar diferentes vetores de subjetivacao que constituem a vida no cotidiano da comunidade e compoem as formas de existencia desses sujeitos. Destacamos, entre esses, a separacao entre o que chamam de vida “na usina” e vida “la fora”, as relacoes com o trabalho, a violencia e a religiao. Palavras-chave: Processos de subjetivacao. Sistema de moradia. Setor sucroalcooleiro.

Biopolítica nas ruas: a produção de modos de vida seguros

Wanderson Vilton Nunes da Silva Doutorando (CAPES) em Psicologia Social e Institucional na Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul. Formado em Psicologia pela Universidade Federal de Alagoas (2011) e Mestrado em Psicologia pela mesma Instituicao (2013). Suas tematicas de interesse sao as seguintes: politicas publicas, direitos humanos, o urbano e a cidade, populacao de rua, processos de subjetivacao e formacao em psicologia. E-mail: wandersonvilton@gmail.com Simone Maria Huning Professora Adjunta III do Curso de Psicologia e docente pesquisadora do Mestrado em Psicologia da Universidade Federal de Alagoas. Possui graduacao em Psicologia pela Universidade de Santa Cruz do Sul (2000), mestrado e doutorado em Psicologia pela Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Rio Grande do Sul. Seus principais temas de interesse sao os estudos foucaultianos, processos de subjetivacao, cultura, governamentalidade, producao de conhecimento, etica e pesquisa em psicologia. E lider do grupo de pesquisa “Processos Culturais, Politicas e Modos de Subjetivacao”. E-mail: simonehuning@yahoo.com.br

Subjetividades, globalização e urbanização: novos objetos da Psicologia Social Brasileira nos Simpósios da ANPEPP

Our goal is to discuss the history of creating new objects in the field of brazilian social Psychology, particularly the processes of urbanization, globalization, computerization of society and its interfaces with subjectification processes. This discussion is the result of a research done on the abstracts of the Proceedings of the Symposium of the National Association for Research and Graduate Studies in Psychology (Anais dos Simposios da Associacao Nacional de Pesquisa e Pos-Graduacao em Psicologia - ANPEPP), covering the period 1988-2010. Our methodology proposes a genealogy of Brazilian social Psychology. We use the Foucauldian perspective on history, knowledge and subjectiveness as theoretical and analytical tools. From this analysis, we affirm the possibility of a history of Brazilian social Psychology that is not written by its great representatives or theoretical aspects, but by establishing new problems, objects and fields of intervention. In this sense, we seek to accompany the formation of its multiple objects and perspectives, not pointing out the non-linearity of its development, but its controversies and ruptures.

Subjectivities, globalization and urbanization: new objects of Brazilian Social Psychology in the ANPEPP Symposiums

Our goal is to discuss the history of creating new objects in the field of brazilian social Psychology, particularly the processes of urbanization, globalization, computerization of society and its interfaces with subjectification processes. This discussion is the result of a research done on the abstracts of the Proceedings of the Symposium of the National Association for Research and Graduate Studies in Psychology (Anais dos Simposios da Associacao Nacional de Pesquisa e Pos-Graduacao em Psicologia - ANPEPP), covering the period 1988-2010. Our methodology proposes a genealogy of Brazilian social Psychology. We use the Foucauldian perspective on history, knowledge and subjectiveness as theoretical and analytical tools. From this analysis, we affirm the possibility of a history of Brazilian social Psychology that is not written by its great representatives or theoretical aspects, but by establishing new problems, objects and fields of intervention. In this sense, we seek to accompany the formation of its multiple objects and perspectives, not pointing out the non-linearity of its development, but its controversies and ruptures.