O ornitorrinco no espelho: administração política e cotidiano

Abstract

The work presented was developed in the Political Administration field, that defines as the object of study the management of social relations for the achievement of decente living conditions for the entire population. In that context, the comprehension of the management of social relations that unfold in the everyday life was searched. The purpose is to understand the non-deterministic bond between the Brazilian Social Formation, represented by the platypus, and the forms of life that transform its reflection in the mirror. Therefore, the popular culture’s arts of making must promote an anthropological turn in the public policies. The poietic pragmatism was used as a philosophical framework that guides the knowledge building, once it defends the practical interaction between the subjects among themselves and with the world, putting the sensitive action in the spotlight. The everyday life was studied based on Certeau’s propositions (1994) on the ways of making of the common people, paying attention to their creative and anti-disciplinary nature. Similarly, the concept of carnivalization elaborated by Bakhtin (2010), as an everyday, festive and revolutionary movement that it is, emerged as an indispensable element for the analysis completeness. That analysis was made in the face of a fictional literary work, A Dog’s Will by Ariano Suassuna. The literature is presented as an legitimate source of research given its specificities, in accordance with the stated by Cândido (2004) and Barthes (2007). The reached conclusion is that the everyday practices, as tactics, got an important political aspect, as they aim to assert the possibilities of the oppressed in the face of the oppressors, and as such they are initiatives of emancipatory character that must be carefully observed throughout the entire public policy cycle. Other practices of the everyday life collaborate to restore a deteriorated sociability, taking forward values escape the ordinary individualistic prescription, and in a similar way they must be considered as important inputs for the State’s thinking and acting.