Os homens fardados e a política brasileira: uma análise genealógica da atuação política militar no Brasil democrático

Abstract

The research is based on the scenario of the political strengthening of the military institution in Brazilian democracy, in conjunction with Michel Foucault's contributions on the historical effects of the exercise of power. The analysis of military discourse therefore considers the functions historically performed by legal theories, principles and codes that emerge in correlation with institutional reforms in the field of public security. In opposition to the conservative realism thesis of the Army's political self-regulation, we examine the institution's bureaucratic-organizational rationality, through which it guarantees the concealment of its political interests in the midst of the formal consolidation of the democratic regime. Using Foucauldian genealogy, the aim is to highlight the insidious and expansive nature of military power, through discursive forms, the foundations of its institutional strategy, military doctrine and military socialization practices. In this sense, with an emphasis on the military's prerogative to maintain public order, the work deals with civil-military dynamics in the New Republic and points to the current functions of the discourse that emerges around the armed forces in the process of producing their own legitimacy.