Biopolítica e as organizações: um estudo sobre a noção de biopolítica em Michel Foucault e uma reflexão sobre os mecanismos de poder na "população organizacional"

Abstract

This research aims to analyze the notion of bio-politics developed by the French philosopher Michel Foucault. Specifically, it focuses on the axis security "population" government. Starting from this analysis of the bio-politics, this dissertation proposes some possible relationships between mechanisms of "bio-power" and what we designate as "organizational population". Thus, the goal of this research is not only to present Foucault´s development of the "model of bio-political power" notion but also propose some reflections about power relations in a significant contemporary type of population: the population of business organizations. This works starts with a global vision of mechanisms of power from Michel Foucault´s perspective, trying to identify its major differences in relation to traditional models generally used to analyze such construct. The research makes, then, a detailed analysis of bio-politics, including aspects about security mechanisms and their relation to space, to management of random phenomena and normalization; about the matter of population and also about governamentality. In this regard, it departs from Christian pastoral power, considering the raison détat, until the German and the American neo-liberalisms. At the end, this work tries to investigate if companies - and, more specifically, the population of these organizations - are a possible and proper field for the manifestation of bio-power