It is with great satisfaction that the Faculty of Education at Unicamp announces to its community and society the launch of the book “Pedagogies of death and war as a legacy of the radical right to children and adolescents: discourses, aesthetics and politics”, authored by teacher at Faculty of Education/Unicamp, Prof. Dr. Heloísa A. Matos Lins.
This work is the result of post-doctoral research that sought to analyze the role reserved for children and youth in Brazil today and their uses as important political-cultural operators, more specifically, under the forces of the global radical right and the Christian and gun rights (as in the case of Bolsonarism). In this sense, it seeks to map the “new” social representations/conceptions engendered regarding children and adolescents (and their formative processes, their rights, in addition to their political instrumentalization by this machinery), which imposed a closer attention to the affections managed by this very singular culture of effervescence and to what this power project (un)viables in (de)democratizing and subjective terms. The study addresses the following question, while also recovering some historical roots of these matrices of thought and government: what country are we/becoming, how do we want to be and what paths do we build, based on civic and ethical choices such as voting, for example, but also beyond it? This means that we must begin to address this issue more seriously: what place is reserved for children and young people (strategically) in this type of belligerent society project, under the vaunted motto of neo-patriotism and the protection of children and young people at imminent risk? At what humanitarian and civilizing cost is this happening (and will happen), considering the human rights of children already guaranteed by law, and of other historically subalternized groups?
The Unicamp School of Education congratulates the professor for her excellent performance and dedication to the completion of such an assertive work for the current moment. The school also thanks everyone involved in the construction of this work. Likewise, it thanks its community that always stands up for the fight for justice, peace and the search for a way to change the world.
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