The body and the police. Incorporation and subjectification in education through a look of the film "Tropa Elite"

Authors

  • Eduardo Galak CONICET/UNLP-CIMeCS - GEEC (Grupo de Estudios en Educación Corporal)

Keywords:

Policía – Cuerpo – educación – subjetivación política – “Tropa de élite”

Abstract

This article is about the film "Tropa de élite" (2007) -"Golden Bear" (“Goldener Bär”) at the Berlin Film Festival (Berlinale)-, working mainly the concepts "body" and "police", and secondarily "education", "politics" and "political". The main idea is to think the police in a double sense: colloquial and academic.

Through the characters of Nascimento and André Matias, this papper shows the lives of two police officers with different life-stories. This allows us to think critically, thanks to the theory of “political subjectivity”, and to analize the disciplination of the bodies, embodied and reproduced through education. This movie makes an explicit reference to "Discipline and Punish" of Michel Foucault, worked in André’s college classes. This book synthesized in many of its paragraphs the discussion presented here.

Author Biography

Eduardo Galak, CONICET/UNLP-CIMeCS - GEEC (Grupo de Estudios en Educación Corporal)

Profesor en Educación Física da Universidad Nacional de La Plata(UNLP)Argentina. Magíster en Educación Corporal y Doctorando en Ciencias Sociales en la Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación da Universidad Nacional de La Plata(UNLP). Becario de la Comisión Nacional de

 

Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET).

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Published

2010-12-23

How to Cite

Galak, E. (2010). The body and the police. Incorporation and subjectification in education through a look of the film "Tropa Elite". Educar Em Revista, 26(38), p. 253–268. Retrieved from https://revistas.ufpr.br/educar/article/view/15650

Issue

Vol. 26 No. 38 (2010)

Section

Demanda Contínua

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