Consumo de si nas tramas da Pós-Graduação Stricto Sensu: como os discentes produzem-se nesse contexto?

Abstract

The policies for the postgraduate strictosensu and its effects on the subjectivity of doctoral students in education is the subject of discussion in this thesis. For that, I start from a documentary and field research with a theoretical-methodological contribution in the Foucaultian studies. The analytical work undertaken in this thesis is centered on discourse analysis, inspired by the work of Michel Foucault, and has as its object the current National Postgraduate Plan, the PNPG (2011 -2020), and documents from the graduate programs in Education of three universities in the state of Rio Grande do Sul - The Federal University of Pelotas (UFPel), the Federal University of Santa Maria (UFSM) and the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS). Alongside this source, we analyze discourses produced by semi-structured interviews with six doctoral students - three fellows and three non-fellows - of the graduate education programs of these institutions. Based on the results obtained in this research, the thesis indicates that in contemporary times there are new ways of relating to oneself in the context of the postgraduate course due to the imperatives of a notion of professional of high level, competitive and entrepreneur of itself. This notion has been encouraged by technologies of power related to the promotion and scientific production in the current PNPG, focusing on the training of doctoral students in education and their processes of subjectivation. This notion of professional that aims to form produces effects of truth in the individuals involved with the context of the strictosensu graduate and has a meaning differentiated to the historically given to the figure of the academic intellectual. In this thesis, I try to show that the politics of truth in the post-graduation strictosensu in education in Brazil leads the doctoral students to a relation of self consumption. I call this relationship a form of subjection, a self-relation to itself that operates as a contemporary marker of the ways of exercising power over life, soul, and thought in the academic context. The thesis indicates that self -consumption is an antithesis to self-care. A mode of subjection to rules laid down by postgraduate policies that lead to an exhausting mode. In other words, it is a force that operates in the relations of work and life with the support of performativity and has effects on the subjectivity of those involved with this context.