A necessidade de renovação das práticas de saúde, pautadas por um cuidado sensível às necessidades das pessoas e ao fortalecimento da existência humana tem sido uma preocupação constante entre alguns que se dedicam às questões da produção da saúde. A influência do marco da modernidade, do biopoder e dos interesses neoliberais nas sociedades contemporâneas compõem o pano de fundo do modo hegemônico de produzir saúde e, muitas vezes, dissociado deste cuidado. A promoção da saúde constitui um campo de produção de práticas de saúde fortemente atravessado por estas questões que impactam no seu modo de produzir o cuidado. Este trabalho busca fazer uma análise crítica sobre as práticas desenvolvidas do âmbito da promoção da saúde interrogando-as a partir da discussão da biopolítica e da produção do cuidado apoiada pelo referencial da micropolítica e de pensadores como M. Foucault, G. Deleuze, F. Guattari, S. Rolnik, E. Merhy, L. Feuerwerker, entre outros. Para tanto tomou emprestado o modelo das pesquisas do Observatório de Políticas Públicas em Saúde e em Educação em Saúde que se utiliza de uma análise microvetorial para pensar a produção do cuidado e as políticas públicas. A escrita deste trabalho foi construída de forma a seguir um caminho análogo ao que se faz em uma viagem, onde o viajante vai fazendo paradas em estações onde encontra pessoas, lugares e territórios importantes para serem visitados, explorados e discutidos. Seu objetivo foi analisar a produção do cuidado nas práticas da promoção da saúde no âmbito do Sistema Único de Saúde (SUS) à luz da Política Nacional de Promoção da Saúde (PNPS), procurando compreender o que esta tem disparado como dispositivo no âmbito municipal e o lugar ocupado pelo cuidado em seu texto e no olhar e vivências de usuários, trabalhadores e gestores envolvidos com as práticas da promoção da saúde de um município do Estado de São Paulo. Trata-se de uma pesquisa qualitativa de abordagem cartográfica onde foram realizadas entrevistas semi-estruturadas e abertas com trabalhadores, usuários e gestores do nível estadual e municipal, vivenciada a observação participante nas atividades com diferentes grupos, participação em reuniões de equipe em espaços de educação permanente, análise de documentos oficiais e construção de diário de campo. Observou-se que a PNPS como dispositivo acaba induzindo uma certa regularidade na produção das práticas desenvolvidas pelos municípios muitas vezes atravessadas por elementos biopolíticos de disciplina e controle. No entanto uma política é também o que se produz no cotidiano e neste município, apesar dos atravessamentos biopolíticos, tem servido também como janela de oportunidade para outras produções que contribuem para a produção do cuidado, sendo isto mais reconhecido por alguns trabalhadores, usuários e gestores do que por outros. As práticas de promoção desenvolvidas fazem convites diferentes para os usuários, ora pautados na prescrição e disciplinarização, ora no reconhecimento de suas singularidades, limitações e projetos de vida, ativando lugares de produção para o cuidado totalmente diferentes e que muitas vezes causam tensionamentos entre os profissionais por requisitarem estratégias de cuidado diferentes ao usual, como a estratégia de redução de danos no caso do programa do tabagismo. Apesar de algumas práticas desenvolvidas propiciarem o encontro, a construção de vínculo, ampliarem as conexões e serem regidas pelas tecnologias relacionais, na AB estas práticas não ganham importância na agenda e as que são desenvolvidas são mais prescritivas. Conclui-se que no município analisado, o lugar da promoção da saúde tem oportunizado, a partir de algumas práticas desenvolvidas, acessar outros planos de produção que se apoiam no uso das tecnologias relacionais e que contribuem para um cuidado centrado nas singularidades dos usuários. No entanto faz-se necessário dar mais visibilidades a elas como forma de interrogar a produção de práticas mais prescritivas e o cuidado produzido sem centralidade no usuário muitas vezes produzido na Rede. A PNPS neste município funcionou como um dispositivo de legitimidade e fortalecimento das práticas desenvolvidas, mas não foi a responsável pela indução das mesmas. / The need of renewal in health care practices oriented toward a care that is sensitive to people´s needs and to the strengthening of human existence has been a constant concern among some of those who devote their work to the issues of production of health. The influence of the landmark of modernity, of biopower and of neoliberal interests in contemporary societies compose the background of the hegemonious manner of health production, which is frequently dissociated from the above mentioned form of care. The promotion of health constitutes a field of production of healthcare practices strongly influenced by the issues that arise from such background and that have an impact on the production of care. This work aims to make a critical analysis of the practices developed in the health promotion context through the discussion of biopolitics and of the production of care supported by the theoretical reference of micropolitics and of authors such as M. Foucault, G. Deleuze, F. Guattari, S. Rolnik, E. Merhy, L. Feuerwerker, among others. To that end, the research model of the Observatory of Public Policies in Health, which applies a micro vectorial analysis to the study of the production of care and public policies, was borrowed.The text structure of this dissertation was built to mimic a travel in which the traveler makes stops at stations, meets people, and visits, explores and discusses relevant places and territories. The objective was to analyze the production of care in the practices of health promotion in the context of Brazil´s Universal Health Care System (SUS) in light of the National Policy for Health Promotion (PNPS), aiming to better understand what the PNPS has been triggering in the municipal context and the place the notion of care holds in the structure of the text of the PNPS and in the eyes and experiences of the users, workers and managers involved with the health care promotion practices in a city in the state of São Paulo. It is a qualitative research with a cartographic approach in which data was collected via: a) semi-structured and open interviews with workers, users and managers at state and municipal levels; b) participative observation in activities within different groups; c) participation in staff meetings in permanent education spaces; d) analysis of official documents and the construction of a field journal/log. It was observed that the PNPS induces certain regularity in the production of the practices developed by the cities, often affected by biopolitical elements of discipline and control. However, a policy is also what is produced on a daily basis and in this city, in spite of the biopolitical influence, it has served as a window of opportunity for other productions that contribute to the production of care, although some workers, users and managers acknowledge and are aware of this fact more than others. The developed promotion practices make different invitations to the users, at times based on prescription and discipline, at times in the acknowledgement and recognition of their singularities, limitations and life projects, activating totally different locus for the production of care, which in many cases causes tensions among the professional because these practices demand different than usual strategies of care, such as the reduction of damage strategy for the smoking program. Even though some of the practices enable encounters and bonding, increasing connections that will be managed by the relational technologies, in primary care units these practices are not given importance in the agenda and the ones that are developed are more prescriptive. In conclusion, in the analyzed city the locus of health promotion, through some of the developed practices, presents opportunities to access other plans of production based on relational technologies and that contribute to a care centered in the singularities of the users. Nonetheless, it is necessary that more visibility be given to them as a way to question the production of the more prescriptive practices and of the not-centered in the user care frequently produced in this context. In this city, the PNPS worked to legitimize and strengthen the developed practices, but it was not responsible for their induction.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-03-15T19:44:33Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Jackson Luiz Nunes Bentes.pdf: 7635456 bytes, checksum: 918bda18e6c79858e18418a6a516faf2 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-09-01 / Fundo Mackenzie de Pesquisa / The thesis of this research follows two parallel lines: the first affirms that the history of infancy constructs the identity of infancy, in other words, infancy is not understood as a chronological issue but rather becomes a question of language. In the second line of research, the the shadow of infancy comes into play. Here we have in mind what Walter Benjamin, the major influence on this work, coined as the concept of bare life, which paved the way to think about childhood as lived in the shadow of bio-politics, of which Kaspar Hauser is an emblematic example. This research has been conducted by sifting through the intricacies of history, the condition named infancy, and the being named child. The central problem is how to think of the life of the being named child insofar as this life is determined by power. Reflecting on the child and on infancy from philosophy to the language of the cinema, we find the film, The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser. He is an emblematic personage of what Benjamin termed bare life, which later Michel Foucault called bio-politics. Along with the analysis of this film, the intention of the present thesis is to recover a reflection on infancy which can take into account, and at the same time move beyond, the cultural production and naturalization of childhood. What is infancy? This question serves as the common thread tying together the parallel lines of research referring to the problem of naturalization. Thus, it is language which seems to permit the thinking about the child and infancy and their submission to power, moving beyond the illusions of nature. / A tese desta investigação segue duas linhas paralelas. Na primeira desenha-se a história da infância a partir da qual é possível dizer que se construiu uma identidade da infância. Na segunda, entra em jogo a questão da vida à sombra da infância . Nesta linha, tem-se em mente que Walter Benjamin, autor fundamental para este trabalho, ao cunhar o conceito de vida nua , abriu caminho para se pensar a questão da infância sob um viés que, mais tarde, Michel Foucault, ainda que se ocupando de outras questões, chamou de biopolítica. Para realizar esta investigação, percorre-se um caminho que perpassa os meandros da história, da condição do ser ao qual se deu o nome de infância e o ser que se chamou de criança. O problema central é pensar a questão da vida deste ser chamado criança enquanto esta vida é determinada pelo poder. Refletindo sobre a criança e a infância, ou as infâncias, desde a filosofia até a linguagem do cinema, encontrou-se o filme O Enigma de Kaspar Hauser , que revela um personagem emblemático daquilo que Benjamin chamou de vida nua . Juntamente com a análise deste filme, a intenção da presente pesquisa é resgatar uma reflexão sobre a infância que seja capaz de levar em conta a produção cultural da infância para além da naturalização do infantil. A pergunta que serve de fio vermelho costurando as linhas paralelas refere-se ao problema da naturalização. A linguagem parece ser o que permite pensar a criança e a infância e toda a submissão ao poder à qual ela foi condenada indo, por meio disso, para além das ilusões da natureza .

Submitted by Filipe dos Santos (fsantos@pucsp.br) on 2017-12-15T11:38:29Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Silvana Almeida Santos.pdf: 1599011 bytes, checksum: a9df64032658e6e514afd14af6ec0941 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-12-15T11:38:29Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Silvana Almeida Santos.pdf: 1599011 bytes, checksum: a9df64032658e6e514afd14af6ec0941 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-12-08 / The increasingly frequent use of digital communication has produced cognitive changes that are manifested in social behavior. The ways in which we come to relate in the environments and between us echo other understandings for the concepts of mobility and place, public and private, participation, solidarity and commitment. The many information we voluntarily posted made us subject indexed (KATZ, 2015). It is in this condition that we now deal with live shows, of which we are the audience, and a configuration of what it is to be public of live shows today is becoming a communicational phenomenon that asks to be investigated. The object of this research is a set of live dance performances programmed by SescSP, and the purpose is to propose a way of thinking a programming taking into account as ongoing cognitive changes. The hypothesis is that institutions that schedule activities that depend on the presence of people can not ignore what has been happening in a world where on and off line is no longer distinguished and are subject to mobility devices establish other practices of displacement in the society. To identify what has changed in the relationship between audiences and live shows, the corpus will consist of the dance productions presented in the years 2015 and 2016, in the 36 Sesc’s equipaments in São Paulo, by interviews of technical assistants responsible for its programming and also the manager of Cultural Action. They cover a longer period, starting with the implantation of the dance language in the institution in 1992. In order to substantiate what is happening with the body in the current stage of capitalism will be employed the Corpomedia Theory (KATZ and GREINER) and authors of biopolitics ( In this paper, we present the results of a study of the results obtained by Meyer and Kirkland (2005), to guide a critical reading on the presence of technology, will be called MANOVICH, 2013; CARR, 2014; and ROSE, 2015; and to explore the cognitive transformations of the body, CHURCHLAND, 2013; and LAKOFF and JOHNSON, 1999, among others. The urgency justifying this research thickens because it is essential to involve the ongoing cognitive changes with dance schedules and notices that began regular production in São Paulo, understand the connection between these three axes ends up in choreographing socially (HEWITT, 2005). In this sense, the management that assumed the Municipal Department of Culture in 2017 performs another social choreography, which will impact future programming / O uso cada vez mais frequente da comunicação digital tem produzido mudanças cognitivas que se manifestam no comportamento social. As maneiras como passamos a nos relacionar nos ambientes e entre nós ecoam outros entendimentos para os conceitos de mobilidade e de lugar, de público e de privado, de participação, solidariedade e comprometimento. As tantas informações que voluntariamente postamos fez de nós sujeitos indexados (KATZ, 2015). É nessa condição que agora lidamos com os espetáculos apresentados ao vivo, dos quais somos a plateia. A configuração do que é ser público de espetáculos ao vivo hoje constitui um fenômeno comunicacional que pede por ser investigado. O objeto desta pesquisa é um conjunto de espetáculos de dança ao vivo programados pelo SescSP, e o objetivo é propor um modo de pensar uma programação levando em conta as mudanças cognitivas em curso. A hipótese é a de que instituições que programam atividades que dependem da presença de pessoas não podem ignorar o que vem sucedendo em um mundo onde on e off line não mais se distinguem, e os dispositivos de mobilidade instauram outras práticas de deslocamento na sociedade. Para identificar o que vem mudando na relação entre plateias e espetáculos ao vivo, o corpus será composto pelas produções de dança apresentadas nos anos de 2015 e 2016, nos 36 equipamentos do Sesc na cidade de São Paulo, por depoimentos dos assistentes técnicos responsáveis pela sua programação e também da gerente de Ação Cultural. Eles abrangem um período mais amplo, começando com a implantação da linguagem da dança na instituição, em 1992. Para fundamentar o que vem sucedendo com o corpo no atual estágio do capitalismo será empregada a Teoria Corpomídia (KATZ e GREINER) e autores da biopolítica (ESPOSITO, 2008, 2009, 2011; ROSE, 2010; METZI e KIRKLAND, 2011; CAMPBELL, 2011; LEMKE, 2011); para guiar uma leitura crítica sobre a presença da tecnologia, serão convocados MANOVICH, 2013; CARR, 2014; e ROSE, 2015; e para explorar as transformações cognitivas do corpo, CHURCHLAND, 2013; e LAKOFF e JOHNSON, 1999, dentre outros. A urgência que justifica essa pesquisa se adensa porque se faz indispensável associar as mudanças cognitivas em curso com as programações de dança e os editais que passaram a regular a produção na cidade de São Paulo, entendendo que a ligação entre esses três eixos termina por nos coreografar socialmente (HEWITT, 2005). Nesse sentido, a gestão que assumiu a Secretaria Municipal de Cultura em 2017 realiza uma outra coreografia social, que vai impactar nas futuras programações

Submitted by Filipe dos Santos (fsantos@pucsp.br) on 2017-12-20T13:11:50Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Felipe Andrade Ponzio.pdf: 1099755 bytes, checksum: b1c0d3b28e7637fa76750a3eaadf2c21 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-12-20T13:11:50Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Felipe Andrade Ponzio.pdf: 1099755 bytes, checksum: b1c0d3b28e7637fa76750a3eaadf2c21 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-11-17 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / Fundação São Paulo - FUNDASP / This research aimed at analyzing the epistemology of neoliberalism, having as the main object of study the Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). It is through the consequences of the emergence of ADHD that we establish a relationship between the abnormality of attention and the recognition, by the American psychiatry, of the entrepreneurial behavior. From this recognition and its main characteristics, we follow the path proposed by Foucault of analysis of liberal rationality and its transformation, in the United States, in neoliberalism. We approach the epistemological question, therefore, at the level of rationality to link its emergence with a change of perception of the notion of temporality in the USA and in the Euro-American countries in general / Esta pesquisa se propôs a analisar a epistemologia do neoliberalismo, tendo como objeto privilegiado de estudo o Transtorno do Déficit de Atenção e Hiperatividade (TDAH). É através dos desdobramentos da emergência do TDAH que relacionamos a anormalidade da atenção com a positivação, pela psiquiatria estadunidense, do comportamento empreendedor. Desta positivação e suas principais características, percorremos o caminho proposto por Foucault de análise da racionalidade liberal e sua transformação, nos Estados Unidos, em neoliberalismo. Abordamos a questão epistemológica, portanto, no nível da racionalidade para relacionar sua emergência com uma mudança de percepção da noção de temporalidade nos EUA e nos países euro-americanos de maneira geral

The person behind the diagnosis is a qualitative interview study by Nicole Kling. The study examines how parents of children with Down syndrome experience the social treatment in a time when prenatal diagnosis is on the rise. Foucault’s biopolitical and Rose’s ethopolitical perspectives serve as theoretical frameworks for the analysis of how the parents experience and relate to the social treatment of them and their children. The study’s results show that society’s strong norms of normality play a crucial role for the interviewed parents’ experiences of being regarded as “deviating”. Ignorance, undemandingness and carelessness lead to discrimination of the children, and the lack of expectations of society on them is often seen by the parents as more disabling than the diagnosis itself. In such a society children born with Down syndrome can be seen as pathological elements in a population that strives for normality. Therefore, this study wishes to contribute to the body of research dedicated to explore the impact of biopolitical strategies on the plurality of society. / Människan bakom diagnosen är en kvalitativ intervjustudie gjord av Nicole Kling. Studien undersöker hur föräldrar till barn med Downs syndrom upplever det samhälleliga bemötandet i en tid där fosterdiagnostik är på framväxt. Foucaults biopolitiska och Roses etopolitiska perspektiv fungerar som teoretiska ramverk för analysen av hur föräldrarna upplever och förhåller sig till det samhälleliga bemötandet av dem och deras barn. Studiens resultat visar att samhällets starka normalitetsnormer spelar en avgörande roll för de intervjuade föräldrarnas upplevelser av att de och deras barn i och med diagnosen betraktas som ”avvikande”. Okunskap, kravlöshet och slarv leder till diskriminering av barnen, och samhällets bristande förväntningar på dem ses av föräldrarna ofta som mer funktionsnedsättande än diagnosen i sig. I ett sådant samhälle kan barn som trots allt föds med Downs syndrom ses som patologiska inslag i en befolkning som strävar efter normalitet. Studien hoppas därför kunna bidra till det forskningsfält som avser undersöka biopolitiska strategiers påverkan på mångfald.

Submitted by Maicon Juliano Schmidt (maicons) on 2015-04-28T17:49:44Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Cíntia Pavani Motta Rocha.pdf: 2143957 bytes, checksum: a39c6afb16de8c40eab2fc47d70b93cb (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2015-04-28T17:49:44Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Cíntia Pavani Motta Rocha.pdf: 2143957 bytes, checksum: a39c6afb16de8c40eab2fc47d70b93cb (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-10-30 / UNISINOS - Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos / O modelo atual da sociedade que interfere diretamente no Direito, leva a reflexões à respeito de como o poder se estabelece em relação à vida humana. Para esta análise busca-se desenvolver uma abordagem a partir dos conceitos de biopolítica e biopoder, adequando-os a realidade jurídica brasileira. A Ação Direta de Inconstitucionalidade n.º 3510, que colocou em pauta o uso de células-tronco embrionárias humanas para pesquisa, foi escolhida para demostrar como os poderes são exercidos e legitimados pela ação humana. Caberá demostrar como o Direito surge como um dispositivo legitimador do poder normatizador. O conflito existente entre o que pode ser considerado vida humana ou mera vida são debatidos ao longo do presente trabalho, que destaca a importância da compreensão do ser para a determinação do que pode ou não ser considerado como ser humano. E, além disso, pretende-se compreender como esses conceitos passam a fazer parte da sociedade e diretamente influenciando as decisões judiciais no país. / The current model of society that interferes directly in the law, leads to reflections about how the power is drawn in relation to human life. For this analysis we sought to develop an approach based on the concepts of biopolitics and biopower in brazilian legal reality. The Direct Action of Unconstitutionality nº. 3510, which put in question the use of human embryonic stem cell research, was chosen to demonstrate how the powers are exercised and legitimized by human action. It will be demonstrate how law arises as a legitimating device of normalizing power. The conflict between what can be considered human life or mere life are discussed throughout this work, which highlights the importance of understanding the being to determine what may or may not be considered as a human being. And furthermore, how these concepts become part of society and directly influencing judicial decisions in the country.

Au Japon, les années 1960 ouvrent une période de contestation politique et artistique. Dans un contexte de déclin des studios traditionnels, les films mettant l’accent sur des faits divers violents se développent en parallèle du Pinku Eiga, genre érotique. Des cinéastes comme Kôji Wakamatsu et Masao Adachi émergent, et avec eux des films où se mêlent nudité et velléités révolutionnaires, témoignant tant d’une interrogation proprement érotique des corps que d’une remise en question virulente de la société contemporaine. Le crime, la déviation deviennent autant de canaux de contestation, tandis que l’érotisme déploie un contre-récit des relations humaines. En écho à ce questionnement, les films de la fûkeiron, la « théorie du paysage », interrogent le devenir des individus confrontés aux paysages du monde moderne. Aux corps surreprésentés du pink font face des corps absents, évacués du visible comme de l’Histoire officielle. Criminels, révolutionnaires ou nymphomanes, autant de vies dénudées qui échappent aux catégories traditionnelles et dont les cinéastes donnent à voir le processus d’émancipation, jusqu’à l’autodestruction parfois. Cet assujettissement visuel et narratif du corps à une organisation qui le dépasse interroge la possibilité d’une énonciation radicalement nouvelle. Dans l’intervalle qui sépare les corps figurants des corps capables d’énonciation, les vies dénudées des vies qualifiées prise dans des logiques utilitaristes, se dessine une dialectique qui interroge la chair comme puissance fondamentale de l’image, seule à même de faire se fissurer les paysages trop lisses de la modernité. / In Japan, the 1960s open an era of political and artistic protests. The decline of traditional film studios is followed by the development of violent genre movies and pinku eiga (erotic films). New filmmakers like Kôji Wakamatsu and Masao Adachi emerge, shooting films in which nudity echoes a constant thirst for revolution, both questioning the erotic nature of bodies and criticizing the contemporary society. Crime and deviation become a new way of protesting, while eroticism allows for a counter-narrative of human relationships. Echoing this interrogation, films of the fûkeiron, the “landscape theory”, address the question of the future of individuals confronted with the landscapes of the modern world. Overexposed bodies from pink cinema are now confronted with bodies that are absent, expelled from both the visible world and the official history. Criminals, revolutionaries, nymphomaniacs, all those bare lives elude the traditional classification and show a new way toward emancipation, sometimes leading to their self-destruction. This visual and narrative subjugation of the body under an organization that exceeds him questions the possibility of a radically new narrative. In the interval that separates figuration bodies from bodies capable of their own narrative, bare lives from qualified lives that are the byproduct of a rationalized system, a dialectic emerges that question flesh as a fundamental potential of images, a potential that might be the only one capable of breaking apart the way too smooth landscapes of modernity.

In 1990, Chile made a successful transition from the authoritarian dictatorship that had ruled the country since 1973 to a democratically elected government. The authoritarian regime was characterized by massive and systemic practices of human rights abuses, and it left an official toll of 5,000 deaths, about 2000 of which constitute “detained and disappeared people”, and an additional 27,000 people who have been officially recognized as victims of torture. These figures do not take into account the unknown numbers of Chilean exiles, or those who were internally displaced or who lost their jobs due to their suspected political affiliations. The human cost of the military regime has continued to be one of the most enduring issues confronting the post-authoritarian Chilean nation. This thesis builds on the work of critical researchers who locate the Chilean authoritarian regime in the transnational politics of the Cold War and their effect in implementing neo-liberalism in Chile. This literature demonstrates that terror was a constitutive, rather than an incidental, element of neo-liberal governmentality: governmentality that inscribed itself on Chilean bodies through terror practices and that remains unscathed through the transition to democracy. With that premise in mind I explore, through a historical analysis of major conjunctures in the history of human rights debates in Chile, how the post-authoritarian nation accounts for the human rights legacies of authoritarianism while obscuring the continuity of authoritarian governmentality. I propose that human rights constitute a biopolitical governmental regime that in a manner comparable to the authoritarian terror captures human life within the realm of state power. As a regime, human rights submit experiences of terror to specific power-knowledge technologies that render terror intelligible, manageable and governable. Rather than promoting essential values of truth and justice, the human rights regime produces specific discourses of truth and justice as well as specific discourses of subjectivity and nation. In concrete terms, this thesis explores how the post-authoritarian nation and it subjects use the human rights regime to discursively construct a national truth in order to promote and protect specific governmental arrangements.

In 1990, Chile made a successful transition from the authoritarian dictatorship that had ruled the country since 1973 to a democratically elected government. The authoritarian regime was characterized by massive and systemic practices of human rights abuses, and it left an official toll of 5,000 deaths, about 2000 of which constitute “detained and disappeared people”, and an additional 27,000 people who have been officially recognized as victims of torture. These figures do not take into account the unknown numbers of Chilean exiles, or those who were internally displaced or who lost their jobs due to their suspected political affiliations. The human cost of the military regime has continued to be one of the most enduring issues confronting the post-authoritarian Chilean nation. This thesis builds on the work of critical researchers who locate the Chilean authoritarian regime in the transnational politics of the Cold War and their effect in implementing neo-liberalism in Chile. This literature demonstrates that terror was a constitutive, rather than an incidental, element of neo-liberal governmentality: governmentality that inscribed itself on Chilean bodies through terror practices and that remains unscathed through the transition to democracy. With that premise in mind I explore, through a historical analysis of major conjunctures in the history of human rights debates in Chile, how the post-authoritarian nation accounts for the human rights legacies of authoritarianism while obscuring the continuity of authoritarian governmentality. I propose that human rights constitute a biopolitical governmental regime that in a manner comparable to the authoritarian terror captures human life within the realm of state power. As a regime, human rights submit experiences of terror to specific power-knowledge technologies that render terror intelligible, manageable and governable. Rather than promoting essential values of truth and justice, the human rights regime produces specific discourses of truth and justice as well as specific discourses of subjectivity and nation. In concrete terms, this thesis explores how the post-authoritarian nation and it subjects use the human rights regime to discursively construct a national truth in order to promote and protect specific governmental arrangements.

This dissertation proposes a theoretical examination of the Latin American thriller through the framework of post-dictatorial Chile, with a concluding look at the post civil war Central American context. I define the thriller as a loose narrative structure reminiscent of the basic detective story, but that fuses the conventional investigation formula with more sensational elements such as political violence, institutional corruption and State terrorism. Unlike the classic form, in which crime traditionally occurs in the past, the thriller form engages violence as an event ongoing in the present or always lurking on the narrative horizon. The Chilean post-dictatorial and Central American postwar histories contain these precise thriller elements. Throughout the Chilean military dictatorship (1973-1990), the Central American civil wars (1960s-1990s) and the triumph of global capitalism, political violence emerges in diversified and oftentimes subtle ways, demanding new interpretational paradigms for explaining its manifestation in contemporary society. In Chile, however, despite a history ripe with the narrative elements of the thriller, a consistent thriller novelistic tradition remains underdeveloped. My research reveals that contemporary Chilean ? and by extension, Latin American ? fiction continues to be analyzed under the aegis of melancholy and the tragic legacy of dictatorship or revolutionary insurgency. Therefore, a theoretical examination of the post-dictatorial/postwar thriller answers the need to not only move beyond previously established literary and political paradigms toward a more nuanced engagement with the present, but to envision a form of thinking beyond national tragedy and trauma. This dissertation analyzes samples of the post-dictatorial detective narrative and testimonial account, which constitute the mirroring narrative components of the thriller. The detective texts and testimonial writings analyzed in this project demonstrate how the particular use of the detective story and testimonial account mirror one another at every fundamental level, articulating what I am theorizing as the thriller structure. Using the theoretical approximations of John Beverley, Brett Levinson, Alberto Moreiras, Jon Beasley-Murray, Michel Foucault, Giorgio Agamben, Carl Schmitt and Carlo Galli, this project makes an original inquiry into why the thriller emerges as the most apt narrative framework for exploring the forms of violence in present-day Latin America.