Much beyond weight: Biopolitics modulations in discourses about childhood obesity

Authors

  • Francisco Vieira da Silva Universidade Federal da Paraíba

Abstract

This text analyses speeches about childhood obesity in order to investigate the functioning of biopolitical strategies, which conceive childhood obesity as an evil that must be combated. For this, the corpus is composed of four discursive materialities about this problematic (an audiovisual campaign, a cartoon, a report and a post of a social network). From the methodological point of view, this is a descriptive-interpretative study, with a qualitative approach. Anchored in the Discourse Analysis, especially in the archegenealogical perspective of Michel Foucault, the analysis points out that the biopolitical strategies are embodied in discourses whose positioning diversity influences, to a greater or lesser degree, control mechanisms of the childhood bodies.

Keywords: Discourse, childhood obesity, biopolitic.

Author Biography

Francisco Vieira da Silva, Universidade Federal da Paraíba

Doutor  em Linguística pela Universidade Federal da Paraíba UFPB). Professor Adjunto da Universidade Federal Rural do Semi-Árido (UFERSA), Campus de Caráubas, Rio Grande do Norte e do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Letras (PPGL), da Universidade do Estado do Rio Grande do Norte (UERN), Campus Avançado Maria Eliza de Albuquerque Maia (CAMEAM), Pau dos Ferros

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Published

2018-10-26

How to Cite

Vieira da Silva, F. (2018). Much beyond weight: Biopolitics modulations in discourses about childhood obesity. Calidoscópio, 16(2), 237–248. Retrieved from https://revistas.unisinos.br/index.php/calidoscopio/article/view/cld.2018.162.06

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Vol. 16 No. 2 (2018): May/August

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