Ecopolitics: planetary governmentality, new institutionalizations and resistances in the society of control

• Grant number: 08/58852-4
• Support Opportunities: Research Projects - Thematic Grants
• Start date: March 01, 2010
• End date: February 28, 2015
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Political Science - Political Theory
• Principal Investigator: Edson Passetti
• Grantee: Edson Passetti
• Host Institution: Pró-Reitoria de Pós-Graduação (PRPG). Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (PUC-SP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Associated scholarship(s): 13/19790-1 - World market for waste and the technologies of human misery., BP.PD; 12/15569-6 - PNUD and PNUMA under the ecopolitics: institutionalizations and monitorings, BP.IC; 12/16376-7 - Cromatófaro: human security and global, BP.IC; 12/14378-2 - Security policies in South America: the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) and the South American Defense Council (CDS), BP.IC; 12/15024-0 - Metamorphoses of indiscipline - disorders in the classroom, BP.DR

Abstract

This thematic research project is related to the genealogical analysis of power. Its primary objective is to analyze the shift from biopolitics - control over the life of the population - in the disciplinary society, to ecopolitics-control over the life of the planet - in the society of control, with special interest in Brazil. We are currently facing a way to exercise control that is less interested in the utility and docility of the body than it is interested in its intelligence; which surpasses determined boundaries, provokes events in continuous spaces, and participates in the production and in the decision in a programmatic manner. The ongoing institutionalization presents itself as an aspect of the society of control in which democratic practices prevail. In this sense, the research is shifted from the relation power-knowledge to government-truth and takes the researcher out of the clear relation surface-depth, based on gravity, to the same relation in the sidereal space, where surfaces vary according to a perspective. The discussion on the notion of ecopolitics will encompass cartographic fluxes of singular and intermittent resistances from the perspective of its emergences, captures and lines of escape. The research will be undertaken by singular movements contiguous to fluxes of multiplicities among rights, security, environment, penalizations in open air. The research will articulate two movements of fluxes: mapping of unfinished institutionalizations and cartography of singular and intermittent resistances. (AU)