The BNCC regulatory discourse for Indigenous School Education

neoliberal ethnophagy and biopolitics/necropolitics as synonyms

Abstract

Neoliberal national narratives, while assuming a discourse of recognition of the State's pluricultural character, invest in maintaining socioeconomic models that threaten the ethnic identity of indigenous peoples. This strategy of ethnophagous indigenism recognizes identities, but seeks to “devour” them from their bases, subtly annihilating, without using the direct violence of the past, the community character of these peoples. We seek to bring this ethnophagic dimension of neoliberal policies closer to biopolitics, as a form of population management in the dynamics of making live and letting die, that is, ways of adapting life to certain demands, creating a utility value for individuals. In the context of coloniality, biopolitics becomes necropolitics, so that certain groups are seen as savage, inferior and not useful. Considering that the National Common Curricular Base assumes the homogenizing discourse of the private initiative, where it is necessary to adapt subjects to new economic demands, we propose to analyze, in this article, the relationship between neoliberal ethnophagy and biopolitics/necropolitics with the BNCC and School Education Indigenous.