O imaginário social em portugal: Uma análise da construção de saberes, das relações de poder e dos modos de subjetivação

Abstract

This article analyses in the social imaginary in Portugal through the Foucaultian analytical triad "knowledge-power-subjectivation", combined with feminist and de-colonial perspectives. The article beginswith a retrospective genealogy of media and touristic discourses, based on interviews and documents, in order to unveil the knowledge-power discursive order in the image of. The second part analyzes subjectivations of Brazilian immigrant women in Portugal, drawing on interviews and participant observation, to unveil situations of prejudice and discrimination and shed light on how thewomen confront the discursive order by resisting and re-existing as subjects. According to the conclusions, Brazilian women are seen as a "colonial body" to the extent that they are defined, essentialized, and stigmatized through characteristics attributed to them ever since the historical colonial period and related to hypersexuality. Threemodes of subjectivation are identified by which these women resist stigma and re-exist: passive, affirmative, and combative resistance.