The Statute of the Child and Adolescent in speeches authoritarian

Authors

  • Flávia Cristina Silveira Lemos UFPA

Keywords:

democracy, Statute of the Child and Adolescent, authoritarian policy, populist leaders.

Abstract

It is with this article question the ownership of the Statute of the Child and Adolescent in power and know practices driven by populist policies and authoritarian soon after the promulgation of this code, at the inauguration of the Ministry of the Child. These speeches, is the then President of Brazil in the period, Fernando Collor de Mello. Through a historical and genealogical methodology of Michel Foucault and theoretical contributions of anthropologist Marilena Chauí, analyzes the speeches that built the children and young people as the goal-Brazilian synthesis of the New Republic. These actors idealized in the Statute of the Child and Adolescent symbol of the entry of Brazil in civilization and modernization, in an illustrated design of Law as a mechanism of progress and development of a nation. These practices they tried to delete, by means of games of be able, the struggles of movements socials in advantage from claim of rights of children and adolescents.

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Author Biography

  • Flávia Cristina Silveira Lemos, UFPA
    psicóloga; mestre em psicologia e sociedade; doutora em história; professora adjunta de psicologia social da UFPA

Published

2009-06-22

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How to Cite

The Statute of the Child and Adolescent in speeches authoritarian. Fractal: Journal of Psychology, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, v. 21, n. 1, p. 137–150, 2009. Disponível em: https://periodicos.uff.br/fractal/article/view/4733. Acesso em: 25 dec. 2025.