QUANDO A LIBERDADE SE TRANFORMA EM EXCLUSÃO: bio(necro)políticas contemporâneas e a precarização da educação inclusiva

Abstract

We are experiencing a de-democratization process in Brazil, as well as in many parts of the world. Guided by neoliberal and conservative principles, such a project has produced perverse effects in the educational field, especially in the inclusion of people with disabilities in regular schools. Following Foucauldian thinking and that of contemporary authors, the paper seeks to problematize the current discourses, which have recently circulated in the television and print media about the “new” National Special Education Policy (2020). From the centrality attributed to the notion of freedom, the analyzes show three movements: 1. The emphasis on freedom of choice as a weapon for the destruction of social rights, such as education; 2. The weakening of this individual right to choose by denying enrollment in the common school; 3. The notion of uninhibited freedom not only weakens rights, but it also opens up space for fascist offensives, which authorize the violence and the social death of the disabled other. It is argued that freedom, without society, is transformed into an instrument of exclusion by giving rise to the functioning of a bio(necro)politics, which appears articulated to the ongoing process of (de)democratization in contemporary Brazil.