The construction of statements of truth in Bolsonaro's government during the COVID-19 pandemic

• Grant number: 22/08094-3
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: September 01, 2022
• End date: August 31, 2023
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Psychology - Social Psychology
• Principal Investigator: Nelson da Silva Junior
• Grantee: Lucas Sloboda de Souza
• Host Institution: Instituto de Psicologia (IP). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

This research project aims to analyze how the Bolsonaro government's right-wing politician's statement strategies were rationalized during the Covid-19 pandemic allowing those speeches to begin a regime of the production of truths. To do so, it will be sought to discern, according to the genealogical and critical procedures bequeathed by Michel Foucault, the rules of enunciative formation that enabled the present discourse to conceive a space of truth and a policy of truth that produces statements considered true or false and endowed with specific power effects in the pandemic context.(AU)