What the State wants to say when it talks about the COVID-19: the doxic adhesion in presidential and ministerial narratives of answers to the pandemic scenario

Authors

  • Rafael Borim-de-Souza Programa de Pós-Graduação em Administração da Universidade Estadual de Londrina.
  • João Gabriel Dias dos Santos Programa de Pós-Graduação em Administração da Universidade Estadual de Londrina.
  • Camilla Atibaia Cestari Programa de Pós-Graduação em Administração da Universidade Estadual de Londrina.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4013/csu.2020.56.2.07

Abstract

This research was developed aiming: to analyze, in Brazil, through narratives from the Presidents of the Republic and Ministers of State, what the State wanted to say when it talks about answers to the pandemic scenario provoked by the COVID-19; and, to identify, in this conjuncture, a possible process of doxic adhesion to the answers presented by and in the name of the State. The Bourdieusian sociology was considered as theoretical support to the concepts of State, talking, saying and doxic adhesion. The realized research is applied, qualitative, descriptive, documental and of narratives. It was considered as documents 122 videos published in the channels “Planalto” and “TV BrasilGov”, both on YouTube, in which totalize 3165 minutes of duration. In the matters of the present research, the presidential and ministerial narratives: are analyzed and interrogated as real object; describe expressions and interactions; and, comprehend moral constructions. By consequence, it was recognized the President of the Republic and the Ministers of State as homo narrans, whom narratives were apprehended in a collective sense of argumentation and narration. Lastly, it was analyzed that the State wanted to say economy-jobs when it talks about economy-jobs and/or about health-lives; and, doxic adhesion to the dominant discourse which officializes the State’s answers to the pandemic was identified.


Keywords: State. Talking. Saying. COVID-19. Doxic Adhesion. Narratives. President. Ministers.
Pandemic.

Author Biographies

Rafael Borim-de-Souza, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Administração da Universidade Estadual de Londrina.

Doutor em Administração pelo Programa de Pós-Graduação em Administração da Universidade Federal do Paraná.

Docente permanente no Programa de Pós-Graduação em Administração da Universidade Estadual de Londrina.

João Gabriel Dias dos Santos, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Administração da Universidade Estadual de Londrina.

Mestrando no Programa de Pós-Graduação em Administração da Universidade Estadual de Londrina.

Camilla Atibaia Cestari, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Administração da Universidade Estadual de Londrina.

Mestranda no Programa de Pós-Graduação em Administração da Universidade Estadual de Londrina.

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Published

2020-11-05

Issue

Vol. 56 No. 2 (2020): Maio/Agosto

Section

Dossiê: Instituições, Políticas Públicas e Desenvolvimento em Tempos de Pandemia Global

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