“Há algo de podre no reino da Dinamarca”: análise dos impactos causados pelos discursos midiáticos diante da luta por direitos e da emancipação sócio-política da Comunidade Cajueiro em São Luís - MA

Abstract

Study about the media discourses and their impacts on the struggle for rights and socio-political emancipation of the Cajueiro Community, in São Luís - Maranhão. The present study was developed from the concept of biopolitics formulated by Michel Foucault (2005), with the objective of analyzing how the biopolitical phenomenon serves to modern societies as an instrument of power, since it acts in the reproduction of pre-defined conducts and, purposely, diffused in social relations. Discusses the role that media discourses play in the construction of social relations, especially when they act to aid reproduction of power as symbolic violence, according to the theoretical perspective of Pierre Bourdieu (1989). The aim of this research is to identify and analyze the impacts suffered by the Cajueiro community in the face of the reproduction of media discourses related to their qualification or disqualification, regarding the struggle for the guarantee of rights and their effective socio-political emancipation, considering the conflict against the WPR Company, whose intent is to build a private port in the community area. As for the methodology, the research is characterized as descriptive and analytical, with a theoretical basis, based on bibliographic research through access to publications in books, scientific articles, dissertations and theses on the subject in question. It is tried to demonstrate, from the analysis of stories and reports, the method of reproduction of the discourses used and how the different types of media act for the perpetuation of an installed hegemony, or, on the contrary, in its deconstruction, although this implies the emergence of another form of symbolic violence, that which does not recognize certain subjects as recipients of knowledge and information. It is concluded that in spite of the social and political function that the alternative media represent for the emancipation of the oppressed social classes, they also reproduce the discourse of the dominant culture, as well as the institutionalized media. And, therefore, in reproducing the dominant discourse, both cause violations of the right of individuals to communicate, as well as the suppression of other human rights.