A política de saneamento básico no Brasil e a relação com lógicas de biopolítica para o controle da população

Abstract

The present dissertation entitled “The Basic Sanitation Politic in Brazil and its relation to Biopolitics logic for population control” results from an exploratory study, with the perspective from a qualitative approach about the thematic, using the methodology of bibliographic research, and the documentary analysis, with the aim of problematizing the relation between Basic Sanitation Politic and Biopolitics logic in the foucauldian sense. Therefore, initially it is presented the study through a brief approach about politics, social and public politics, then the sanitation conception through sanitary practices and the correlate concepts. In relation to the Basic Sanitation Politic in Brazil they are shown aspects about its trajectory, the determinants nuances of the ‘regulatory mark’ elaboration and the institutional instruments for the implementation of this public politics. After that, they are related some concepts from the foucauldian perspective bounded to the analytic of power for the development of the biopolitic thematic. Finally, it is analyzed the Basic Sanitation Politic scope through its interfaces being established the linking with the subjectivation ways of the present system; the management of the population through this politics as an element of governmental intervention where the government rationality conditions the access dissimilarities to the service; and the Basic Sanitation Politic as a biopolitic element to intervene in a conditioning field in the vital processes related to the level of the population health. The study considered to contribute to a debate and demonstrated that the Basic Sanitation Politic is an strategy of biopolitic intervention according a rationality for the men conduct and its relations.