Normalizar... Resistir... Normalizar...: o jogo de poder em uma organização pública, a partir de um grupo de discussão on-line

Abstract

Through analysis of interviews, e-mails, management reports, news, and scientific papers I aim in this research to understand how an on-line discussion group (henceforth GRUPO) appears, from late 1990 to 2013, as a power-resistance practice in a public organization. To do so, I seek to trace a genealogy, a story of everyday events that arise as ruptures and that aid me in my attempt to carry on an analytic of power, to provide a diagram of struggles erecting regimes of truth. Such regimes are supported by disciplinary power relations, using various technologies, such as normalizing sanction, examination, and surveillance, whose effects produce knowledge, discourses and also the man himself. The analytic of power allowed the visualization of a movement in the story in which the GRUPO's discourse came out as a practice of militant resistance to the management, politicians, and party-political conceptions that, after a re-articulation of the disciplinary power network, turned out into a practice of normalized resistance that restrains the civil servant figure to a depoliticized worker, anchored in the concepts of meritocracy, efficiency, specialization and less to the public and common interests. The discontinuous conductive wire accompanying this story shows that the peaks of resistant action of the group in question was always related to an immediate interest: financial aspects. Therefore, broader social problems sometimes sent to the GRUPO did not draw the attention meant and, because of that, were not included as events in this genealogy. This analytic allowed as well to understand the GRUPO as a double panopticon, in which participants watch themselves and non-participants watch the participants, then setting up a new public management's dispositive, whose main effect is the worker's depoliticization, which includes scientific statements Administration, Public Administration and Law, administrative measures, laws, moral propositions of neoliberalism, institutions such as public and private organizations, media, virtual control, among other discursive and non-discursive elements.