A objetivação da violência a partir da noção de ciclo de vida: interrogando as práticas de saber/poder do UNICEF

Abstract

This dissertation aims at analysing the objectifying of violence for UNICEF from problematizing the life circle notion,which represents a strategy adopted by such agency in order to face violence. A historicaland documental research of the book published in 2005, “Analise da violência contra a criança e o adolescente, segundo o ciclo de vida no Brasil - conceitos, dados e proposições”, was performed. The analyses were based on the archeogenealogic methodology as proposed by Michel Foucault. It was observed that the production of violence in this document considered its range and specificity of manifest in each life phase. Thus, UNICEF intended to operate a biopolitical management of the bodies of impoverished children and adolescents in Brazil through a neoliberal and calculated perspective. It was concluded that the knowledge/power practices implekented by this agency objectives risk control through individualising the matter of violence, which in our analysis contributes to stigmatising underpriviledged families considered to be the main actors in reproducing violence.