Língua como linha de força do dispositivo colonial: os gavião entre a aldeia e a universidade

Abstract

This PhD final thesis proposes a reflection on the role of language in the sociodiscursive practices of the university, as an institution for the materialization of the hegemonic norms of the colonial device, for the stay of indigenous Gavião students of the Parkatejê, Akrãtikatejê and Kyikatjê groups at the Federal University of the South and Southeast of Pará (Unifesspa). A theoretical-methodological tool was developed from the Postcolonial Studies (especially Walter Mignolo, Aníbal Quijano, Catherine Walsh and Àngel Rama) and Michel Foucault's analysis of the archegenealogical discourse, fundamentally in the notion of "device", also with the Neves (2009, 2015) reading about the Foucauldian device, which resulted in the proposal of "colonial device". The four lines (Visibility, Enunciation, Subjectivity and Force) drawn by Deleuze (2006) for the Foucault device is another structural influence in the thesis, from which two were taken (Subjectivity and Force) to present the oscillations of behavior of the colonial device in the university throughout history and from the entrance of indigenous people due to affirmative actions in the last ten years. Within these lines, it was observed that the hegemonic profile of the university is tensioned with the indigenous presence and the language presents itself as the line of force, sewing the discursive practices that guarantee the norms of the colonial device in that context.