Military developments suggest that autonomous weapons systems will be the future ofwarfare. Therefore, it is important to understand how to define the concept and how peopleexpress themselves around it. This paper will analyze how important actors in Sweden talkabout autonomous weapon systems. The concept of how autonomous weapons is constructedand what diversities and similarities there are in the expressions of autonomous weapons willbe examined in this paper. The question is if there is a hegemonic status in any discourse?Actors' expressions, such as political parties and researchers as FOI, SIPRI and The SwedishPeace and Arbitration Society, will be investigated. Social constructivism and discourseanalysis provide theoretical tools for the analysis. The discourses are organized byoperational and financial, human involvement, legal field and political discourses.The analysis shows how important characters try to give meaning to the phenomenon, forexample economic, human involvement and fear, which affect the different discourses. Theconclusions indicate that the juridical discourse has reached a hegemonic status, because allactors connect autonomous weapons to juridical frameworks.

Abstract  The purpose of this study is to investigate the perceived power and influence of superintendents in relation to their state-appointed role in the Education Act, and the autonomy it provides. This qualitative study uses Foucault’s analysis of power as its theoretical framework. The empirical data collects through semi-structured interviews with in total thirteen superintendents employed by municipals or independent schoolboards. Superintendents employed by independent schoolboards have generally been under-researched previously and this makes this study an important contribution. The empirical data is analysed using three of Foucault’s concepts of power: governance, power and counter-power, and power and knowledge. The results indicate a notable variation in the perceptions of superintendents regarding their power and influence. The context in which they operate, as well as the ownership or operation of the schools, also plays a role for the superintendents´ perceptions of power and influence. The results indicates that superintendents have power and highlight a significant difference between the role of a superintendent in an independent organization compared to a superintendent working in a municipal organization. The superintendent employed by an independent schoolboard has a more defined and distinct role compared to a superintendent in a municipal schoolboard. Furthermore, the results indicates that the superintendent’s perception of their power and influence depends due to several factors in the surrounding society for example, voter groups, conservation interests, skills shortage, and unemployment.        Keywords  superintendent, schoolboard, educational leadership, school management, Foucault, power and influence / Sammanfattning  Syftet med denna studie är att öka förståelsen för vilken makt och vilket inflytande skolchefer uppfattar att de har kopplat till det statliga skolchefsuppdraget, samt vilket upplevt handlingsutrymme det ger. Studien har en kvalitativ ansats och bygger på kvalitativa intervjuer. Insamling av empiriska data sker genom semistrukturerade intervjuer med totalt tretton skolchefer för fristående och kommunala verksamheter. I studien deltar flera skolchefer från enskilda huvudmän vilka det finns lite forskning om sedan tidigare vilket ökar studiens relevans. Foucaults maktanalys används som teori i studien och analysen av empirin genomförs med hjälp av tre av Foucaults maktbegrepp; styrning, makt och motmakt och makt och kunskap. Resultatet visar att det är stor skillnad mellan hur de olika skolcheferna uppfattar sin makt och sitt inflytande. Dessutom visar resultatet på stor skillnad mellan skolchefens uppdrag hos en enskild huvudman jämfört med en kommunal huvudman. Skolchefen hos en enskild huvudman har ett mer avgränsat och tydligt uppdrag än vad en skolchef i en kommunal verksamhet har. Skolchefen har en betydelsefull roll, och deras uppfattning om sin makt, inflytande och därmed handlingsutrymme formas av flera faktorer i det omkringliggande samhället som till exempel väljargrupper, bevarandeintressen, kompetensbrist och arbetslöshet. Skolchefsrollen påverkas av skillnader i styrningen och organisering mellan olika huvudmän och det ställs olika förväntningar på skolchefen beroende av vilken huvudman som äger eller driver skolorna.        Nyckelord  skolchef, huvudman, skolstyrelse, styrning, Foucault, makt och inflytande

This article redirects extant critiques of the modern problem of war at this problem’s underlying logic of deviance. According to this logic, war constitutes a kind of international conduct that contravenes behavioural norms and that can be corrected through diagnostic and didactic means. Thereby, war is rendered into a problem falling within the scope of human agency. However, this agency rests on and reproduces this logic’s constitutive blind spots. Therefore, it seems imperative to develop ways of problematising war otherwise. The article provides two starting points for (critical) IR scholarship seeking to undertake such a project. Firstly, it combines two Foucaultian tools, the concept of problematisation and the method of genealogy, to direct critique at the logics underlying our evaluative – analytical, ethical, and political –judgements. Secondly, it uses these tools to trace the contingent emergence of the logic of deviance in a crucial example within the wider genealogy of the problem of war: the Carnegie Endowment’s commission of inquiry into the Balkan Wars of 1912 and 1913. Based on original archival research, I highlight different elements of this inquiry’s problematisation of war – its frames, assumptions, ways of knowing, and subjects of knowledge – to make them available for reconstruction.

[pt] A pesquisa tem por objetivo refletir acerca da violência exercida em nome da ética a partir de uma perspectiva crítica baseada no pensamento de Michel Foucault e Judith Butler. De início, pontua-se os enquadramentos normativosociais que definem quais vidas importam e quais vidas sequer são passíveis de luto. Em seguida, recuperando as problematizações éticas dos autores de referência, defende-se que os processos de subjetivação são um meio de abertura para a alteridade. O conceito grego de ascese –práticas de si – investigado por Foucault é o conceito chave através do qual se procura pensar formas de resistência aos poderes subjetivantes e uma maneira de encontrar o outro no exercício de si mesmo, de reconhecê-lo na sua proximidade e na sua absoluta estranheza. A teoria de Butler é fundamental nesse ponto, uma vez que propõe explicitamente a pergunta pelo tu no diálogo com diversos pensadores, dentre os quais, o trabalho põe em relevo as questões da filosofia de Emmanuel Lévinas. Por fim, a proposta de uma ética de não violência é sustentada na concepção foucaultiana de ética da amizade e no ponto de vista da responsabilidade em Butler. Ambos podem funcionar na rubrica de um programa vazio, no sentido de não prescreverem regras de conduta. Sem abrir mão completamente da normatividade, indicam possibilidades éticas que não se baseiam em juízos. / [en] This paper aims to conduct to reflect on the violence perpetrated in the name of ethics from a critical perspective based on the thinking of Michel Foucault and Judith Butler. At first, it is pointed out the normative-social frameworks that define which lives matter and which lives are not even mournable. Then, recovering the ethical problematizations of the authors in reference, it is argued that the processes of subjectivation are a mean of opening to alterity. The Greek concept of ascesis - self-practices - investigated by Foucault is the key concept through which one tries to think of forms of resistance to subjectivating powers and a way of finding the other in the exercise of oneself, of recognizing it in its proximity and in their absolute strangeness. Butler s theory is fundamental at this point, since it explicitly proposes the question of you in the dialogue with several thinkers, among which, this paper highlights the issues of Emmanuel Lévinas philosophy. Finally, the proposal for an ethics of non-violence is based on Foucault s conception of the ethics of friendship and in Butler s point of view about responsibility. Both can work under the heading of an empty program, in the sense of not prescribing rules of conduct. Without giving up normativity completely, they indicate ethical possibilities that are not based on judgments.

The purpose of this study was set against the background that social media today are used as an platform for companies to communicate with their customers, as well as communicate their brand. Therefore it was interesting to examine this phenomenenon through a critical point of view and try to put light on the different forms of power that is produced on this arena. The overall aim of this study was to examine how PR-consultants talk about social media as a communication channel. The empirical data consisted of five interviews with PR-consultants on five different PR-agencies. The theoretical framework was based on a social constructional perspective and Foucault’s theory of power. A critical discourse analysis was used for analysing the data. The analysis resulted in two different discourses; the friendly relationship in the social livingroom and the professional relationship on the homeparty. These two discourses showed that social media is a platform that allows companies to create different and more personalized relations with their followers. The result also showed that the power relations between company and follower is distributed between them both, and that the power, in some ways, tend to be more invisible when the dividing line between commercial and private is blurred. Furthermore, due to result, the followers, the potential consumer, in some ways, are constructed in ways of how to be and how to act on the social media arena.

The public and media are paying more attention to youth offending today and reform proposals that call for more parental responsibility as a means of preventing crime have taken note of this trend. The purpose of the study is to examine discursive descriptions on parenting as they are articulated in relation to parents of young offenders in a selection of publications published by the Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare. Based on Foucauldian discourse analysis and Foucault’s theorizations on power, knowledge and subject, the study identifies four discursive representations of parents within the material. We found that parents of young offenders are portrayed as ignorant, immature, morally responsible or risky. It is assumed that the parent is both the cause of unlawful behavior and its solution. The study concludes that in the publications and their underpinning knowledge base, the accountability for societal problems is attributed to the parents. / Allmänheten och media ägnar idag mer uppmärksamhet åt ungdomsbrottsligheten och reformförslag som efterlyser mer föräldraansvar, som ett sätt att förebygga brott, har tagit fasta på denna trend. Syftet med studien är att undersöka diskursiva framställningar om föräldraskap, så som de formuleras i relation till föräldrar till unga lagöverträdare, i ett urval av publikationer utgivna av Socialstyrelsen. Baserat på Foucaults diskursanalys och Foucaults teorier om makt, kunskap och subjekt, identifierar studien fyra diskursiva framställningar av föräldrar i materialet. Vi fann att föräldrar till unga lagöverträdare framställs som okunniga, omogna, moraliskt ansvariga och riskfyllda. Det antas att föräldern är både orsaken till det olagliga beteendet och dess lösning. Inom studien konstateras att publikationerna och deras understödjande kunskapsbas tillskriver föräldrarna ansvaret för samhällsproblem.

Nous proposons ici une étude sur la culture du souci de soi dans l’Antiquité, telle qu’elle est exposée et interprétée par Michel Foucault dans L’Herméneutique du sujet. En s’appuyant sur l’interprétation des textes des principaux représentants latins du stoïcisme impérial (Sénèque, Épictète et Marc-Aurèle), le mémoire rassemble les éléments d’une théorie foucaldienne du sujet. La première partie traite de la « genèse » du sujet chez Foucault en regard des « techniques de soi » qui le rationalisent. La deuxième partie situe le sujet qui s’élabore dans l’expérience pratique du rapport à soi, dans l’ascèse et dans la discipline, en regard du rapport à l’autre, au corps, au savoir et au langage. La dernière partie présente le contexte historique dans lequel l’injonction au souci de soi est devenue un impératif éthique. On fait alors l’hypothèse que la crise de la démocratie athénienne à la fin du Ve siècle a joué un rôle significatif dans l’émergence de l’injonction socratique et que cette dernière fait écho au verdict des classes dominantes sur l’incompétence politique des masses. Le souci de soi et l’exercice assidu de la maîtrise de soi apparaissent alors comme des préalables indispensables à la participation à la vie politique et aux décisions communes. La culture de soi connaît une lente transformation avec le déclin de la Cité-État, la domination romaine et l’hellénisation de Rome, tout en atteignant son paroxysme à l’époque du Haut-Empire. Elle s’achève dans la construction chrétienne d’une culture du renoncement. On suppose alors que dans chacune de ces configurations historiques, elle a rempli une fonction sociale importante, mais à chaque fois différente. / We propose a study on the culture of the care of the self in Antiquity, as it is exposed and interpreted by Michel Foucault in his course Herméneutique du sujet at the Collège de France. Based on the interpretation of the texts of the principal Latin philosophers of imperial Stoicism (Seneca, Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius), the dissertation brings together the elements of a Foucaldian theory of the subject. The first part deals with Foucault’s perspective on the "genesis" of the subject, with regard to the "techniques of the self " through which one rationalizes oneself. The second part situates the subject that is elaborated in the practical experience of the relation to oneself, in asceticism and discipline, with regard to the relation to the other, to the body, to knowledge and to language. The last part presents the historical context in which the injunction to self-care has become an ethical imperative. It is then suggested that the crisis of Athenian democracy at the end of the 5th century played a significant role in the emergence of the Socratic injunction, and that the latter echoes the ruling classes on the political incompetence of the masses. The care of the self and the constant exercise of self-control then appear as prerequisites for participation in political life and common decisions. The culture of the self slowly change with the decline of the City- State, Roman domination, and the Hellenization of Rome, while reaching its peak in the High Empire. The culture of the self ends in the Christian construction of a culture of renunciation. It is asserted then that in each of these historical configurations, the culture of the self has fulfilled an important social function, but each time different.

Il existe un discours, qui gagne chaque jour en popularité dans les milieux académiques et professionnels, qui se reproduit dans le quotidien familial et socioculturel, sur une adolescence qui est perçue comme un problème, une étape de crise avec laquelle il est difficile de négocier. À partir des écrits de Foucault (1976) on peut penser que cette inquiétude s’inscrit dans la construction du dispositif occidental de la sexualité. À partir de ce concept, l’objectif de cette recherche était de dégager les constructions possibles d’un ou de dispositifs de sexualité chez des adolescents(es) vivant en situation de pauvreté au Brésil (Belém-Pará). La méthode de recherche choisie a été un devis qualitatif selon une approche ethnographique qui consiste à décrire et à interpréter un système ou un groupe socioculturel (Creswell, 1998). La principale technique de cueillette des données, en plus des techniques d’observation ethnographique et l’analyse documentaire, a été l’entrevue en profondeur, en face à face, à partir de questions ouvertes. Quatorze adolescent(e)s vivant dans le même quartier pauvre de Belém ont été observé(e)s et interviewé(e)s, de même que leurs parents. L’analyse des données, effectuée selon l’analyse de contenu proposée par Bardin (1977) ont révélé un dispositif de sexualité présent tant chez les adolescents, parents et professeurs rencontrés, et s’appuyant sur l’école, les églises, les médias et l’État, qui a été décrit comme un dispositif du sexe sécuritaire alors qu’un dispositif d’alliance, au sens de Foucault, a été décrit après analyses et confirmation des données comme l’alliance des puissants. Ces résultats, avec en plus des informations nouvelles sur la sexualité amazonienne à partir des légendes locales du Boto et d’Iara, permettent de voir sous un nouvel angle la question de la construction sociale de la sexualité chez des adolescent(e)s vivant en situation de pauvreté à Belém (Pará) au Brésil et ont conduit à des recommandations spécifiques pour améliorer la recherche et les pratiques professionnelles. / There is a discourse, gaining in popularity every day in academic and professional environment, which is reproduced in family and socio-cultural day-to-day life, regarding an adolescence perceived as problematic, a stage of crisis with which it is difficult to negotiate. Based on the writings of Foucault (1976), it is possible to think that this concern enters into the western construct of apparatus of sexuality. Based on this concept, the objective of this research project was to identify the possible constructs of one or more apparatus of sexuality in adolescents living in poverty in Brazil (Belém, Pará). The research methodology selected was a qualitative assessment using an ethnographic approach consisting in describing and interpreting a socio-cultural system or group (Creswell, 1998). The principal data collection technique, in addition to ethnographic observation and documentary analysis, was face-to-face in-depth interviews based on open questions. Fourteen adolescents living in the same underprivileged Belém neighbourhood were observed and interviewed, as well as their parents. The data analysis, carried out using Bardin’s content analysis (1977), revealed a apparatus of sexuality among the adolescents, parents and teachers interviewed based on the school, the church, the media and the State, which was described as a apparatus of safe sex whereas a apparatus of alliance, within the meaning of Foucault, was described after analysis and confirmation of the data as an alliance of the powerful. These results, with new information on an Amazonian sexuality arising from local Boto and Iara legends, cast new light on the question of the social construct of sexuality among adolescents living in poverty in Belém in the Brazilian state of Pará and led to specific recommendations to improve research and professional practices. / Existe um discurso, que aumenta a cada dia mais e mais em popularidade não apenas no meio acadêmico, mas também no profissional, que se reproduz no cotidiano familiar e sociocultural, sobre uma adolescência que é percebida como um problema, uma etapa de crise com a qual é dificil de se negociar. À partir dos escritos de Foucault pode-se pensar que esta inquietude se inscreve na construção do dispositivo ocidental da sexualidade. À partir deste concepto, o objetivo desta pesquisa foi de deixar imergir as construções possiveis de um ou mais dispositivos de sexualidade dos adolescentes vivendo em situação de pobreza no Brasil (Belém-Pará). O método de pesquisa escolhido foi qualitativo dentro de uma abordagem etnográfica qui consiste à descrever e à interpretar um sistema ou um grupo sociocultural (Creswell, 1998). A principal técnica de coleta de dados, além das técnicas de observação etnográficas e análise documental, foi a entrevista em profundidade, em face à face, à partir de questões abertas. Quatorze adolescent(e)s vivendo no mesmo bairro pobre de Belém foram observados e entrevistados, assim como seus pais. A análise dos dados, efetuou-se segundo a análise de conteúdo proposta por Bardin (1977) que revelaram un dispositivo de sexualidade presente tanto nos adolescentes, pais e professores encontrados, e se apoiando nas escolas, igrejas, midias e Estado, que foram descritas como um dispositivo de sexo seguro, enquanto que, um dispositivo de aliança, no sentido de Foucault, foi descrito após análises e confirmação dos dados como aliança dos poderosos. Estes resultados também proprocionaram novas informações sobre a sexualidade amazonense à partir das lendas regional do Boto et da Iara, permitindo perceber através de um novo ângulo a questão da construção social da sexualidade dos adolescentes vivendo em situação de pobreza à Belém (Pará) no Brasil, e conduziram à recomendações específicas para aperfeiçoar a pesquisa e as práticas profissionais.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-28T20:39:33Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Andre Valente de Barros Barreto.pdf: 1153184 bytes, checksum: b9fc40969fba6d08e0b53c7ef814e51a (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007-10-19 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / Considering the growing importance that the body is gaining in the contemporary world, our objective in this thesis is to question the relationship between body and power, subject that has thus far been scarcely explored from a political science point of view. For that, we will work predominantly with Michel Foucault s work, using systematic analysis of this outstanding author, pioneer in showing that the body is in the center of the relations of power. Despite bearing an important contribution to the subject, Foucault s work presents some problems, among which we point out embracing the concept of the body as excessively abstract. Echoing a difficult relationship that the human sciences have kept with the body in modern days, by either simply ignoring it or considering it only as a symbolic object, Foucault ultimately detaches the body from its biological traces; the body which, when assuming its materiality, does so under an exceedingly mechanicist perspective. We repute that this view of the body devitalizes the subject and weakens the very idea of resistance that the French philosopher sustains in his work, reason why we propose, through an interdisciplinary dialogue, the adoption of another view of the body. It is in the work of Wilhelm Reich, as well as in some contemporary biologists and neurobiologists, that we will find the elements to think of the body not as a mere compilation of inert, malleable parts, as proposed by biomedical knowledge, but as an especial materiality, alive and dynamic, which remits to a long evolutionary process, occupying a central spot in our so called superior life. Our hypothesis is that this living body, capable of contemplating both symbolic and social aspects, as well as biological and material aspects, can intensify Foucault s idea of resistance, making the work of composing the self more efficient in its task of elaborating internalized means, capable of eluding the modern mechanisms of power: the body as an important ally against the methods of domination / Tendo em vista a crescente importância que o corpo vem assumindo no mundo contemporâneo, nosso objetivo nesta tese é problematizar a relação entre corpo e poder, tema ainda pouco explorado do ponto de vista da ciência política. Para isto, por meio de uma leitura e análise sistemáticas, trabalharemos prioritariamente com a obra de Michel Foucault, autor que se destaca pelo pioneirismo em mostrar que o corpo está no centro das relações de poder. Não obstante represente uma importante contribuição para o assunto, a obra de Foucault apresenta alguns problemas, dentre os quais destacamos a adoção de uma concepção de corpo excessivamente abstrata. Ecoando a difícil relação que as ciências humanas têm mantido com o corpo na modernidade, seja simplesmente ignorando-o, seja considerando-o tão somente como objeto simbólico, Foucault termina por destituir o corpo de seus traços biológicos, corpo que, quando assume sua materialidade, o faz sob um prisma eminentemente mecanicista. Julgamos que esta noção de corpo desvitaliza o sujeito e enfraquece a própria idéia de resistência que o filósofo francês sustenta em seu trabalho, razão pela qual, propomos, por meio do diálogo interdisciplinar, a adoção de uma outra noção de corpo. É na obra de Wilhelm Reich, bem como de alguns biólogos e neurobiólogos contemporâneos, que vamos buscar os elementos para pensar o corpo não como um mero agregado de partes inertes e manipuláveis, como propõe o saber biomédico, mas como uma materialidade especial, viva e dinâmica, que remete a um longo processo evolutivo, e que ocupa um lugar central na nossa vida dita superior. Nossa hipótese é a de que este corpo vivo, capaz de contemplar tanto os aspectos simbólicos e sociais quanto os aspectos materiais e biológicos, pode potencializar a idéia de resistência em Foucault, tornando o trabalho de constituição de si mais eficiente em sua tarefa de elaborar modos de subjetivação capazes de escapar aos modernos mecanismos de poder: o corpo como importante aliado contra as formas de assujeitamento

Il existe un discours, qui gagne chaque jour en popularité dans les milieux académiques et professionnels, qui se reproduit dans le quotidien familial et socioculturel, sur une adolescence qui est perçue comme un problème, une étape de crise avec laquelle il est difficile de négocier. À partir des écrits de Foucault (1976) on peut penser que cette inquiétude s’inscrit dans la construction du dispositif occidental de la sexualité. À partir de ce concept, l’objectif de cette recherche était de dégager les constructions possibles d’un ou de dispositifs de sexualité chez des adolescents(es) vivant en situation de pauvreté au Brésil (Belém-Pará). La méthode de recherche choisie a été un devis qualitatif selon une approche ethnographique qui consiste à décrire et à interpréter un système ou un groupe socioculturel (Creswell, 1998). La principale technique de cueillette des données, en plus des techniques d’observation ethnographique et l’analyse documentaire, a été l’entrevue en profondeur, en face à face, à partir de questions ouvertes. Quatorze adolescent(e)s vivant dans le même quartier pauvre de Belém ont été observé(e)s et interviewé(e)s, de même que leurs parents. L’analyse des données, effectuée selon l’analyse de contenu proposée par Bardin (1977) ont révélé un dispositif de sexualité présent tant chez les adolescents, parents et professeurs rencontrés, et s’appuyant sur l’école, les églises, les médias et l’État, qui a été décrit comme un dispositif du sexe sécuritaire alors qu’un dispositif d’alliance, au sens de Foucault, a été décrit après analyses et confirmation des données comme l’alliance des puissants. Ces résultats, avec en plus des informations nouvelles sur la sexualité amazonienne à partir des légendes locales du Boto et d’Iara, permettent de voir sous un nouvel angle la question de la construction sociale de la sexualité chez des adolescent(e)s vivant en situation de pauvreté à Belém (Pará) au Brésil et ont conduit à des recommandations spécifiques pour améliorer la recherche et les pratiques professionnelles. / There is a discourse, gaining in popularity every day in academic and professional environment, which is reproduced in family and socio-cultural day-to-day life, regarding an adolescence perceived as problematic, a stage of crisis with which it is difficult to negotiate. Based on the writings of Foucault (1976), it is possible to think that this concern enters into the western construct of apparatus of sexuality. Based on this concept, the objective of this research project was to identify the possible constructs of one or more apparatus of sexuality in adolescents living in poverty in Brazil (Belém, Pará). The research methodology selected was a qualitative assessment using an ethnographic approach consisting in describing and interpreting a socio-cultural system or group (Creswell, 1998). The principal data collection technique, in addition to ethnographic observation and documentary analysis, was face-to-face in-depth interviews based on open questions. Fourteen adolescents living in the same underprivileged Belém neighbourhood were observed and interviewed, as well as their parents. The data analysis, carried out using Bardin’s content analysis (1977), revealed a apparatus of sexuality among the adolescents, parents and teachers interviewed based on the school, the church, the media and the State, which was described as a apparatus of safe sex whereas a apparatus of alliance, within the meaning of Foucault, was described after analysis and confirmation of the data as an alliance of the powerful. These results, with new information on an Amazonian sexuality arising from local Boto and Iara legends, cast new light on the question of the social construct of sexuality among adolescents living in poverty in Belém in the Brazilian state of Pará and led to specific recommendations to improve research and professional practices. / Existe um discurso, que aumenta a cada dia mais e mais em popularidade não apenas no meio acadêmico, mas também no profissional, que se reproduz no cotidiano familiar e sociocultural, sobre uma adolescência que é percebida como um problema, uma etapa de crise com a qual é dificil de se negociar. À partir dos escritos de Foucault pode-se pensar que esta inquietude se inscreve na construção do dispositivo ocidental da sexualidade. À partir deste concepto, o objetivo desta pesquisa foi de deixar imergir as construções possiveis de um ou mais dispositivos de sexualidade dos adolescentes vivendo em situação de pobreza no Brasil (Belém-Pará). O método de pesquisa escolhido foi qualitativo dentro de uma abordagem etnográfica qui consiste à descrever e à interpretar um sistema ou um grupo sociocultural (Creswell, 1998). A principal técnica de coleta de dados, além das técnicas de observação etnográficas e análise documental, foi a entrevista em profundidade, em face à face, à partir de questões abertas. Quatorze adolescent(e)s vivendo no mesmo bairro pobre de Belém foram observados e entrevistados, assim como seus pais. A análise dos dados, efetuou-se segundo a análise de conteúdo proposta por Bardin (1977) que revelaram un dispositivo de sexualidade presente tanto nos adolescentes, pais e professores encontrados, e se apoiando nas escolas, igrejas, midias e Estado, que foram descritas como um dispositivo de sexo seguro, enquanto que, um dispositivo de aliança, no sentido de Foucault, foi descrito após análises e confirmação dos dados como aliança dos poderosos. Estes resultados também proprocionaram novas informações sobre a sexualidade amazonense à partir das lendas regional do Boto et da Iara, permitindo perceber através de um novo ângulo a questão da construção social da sexualidade dos adolescentes vivendo em situação de pobreza à Belém (Pará) no Brasil, e conduziram à recomendações específicas para aperfeiçoar a pesquisa e as práticas profissionais.