Since 2013, several social actors of the Federal University of Santa Catarina community have formed a public sphere in order to deliberate and decide on the University Hospital’s affiliation to the Brazilian Hospital Services Company, a public company set up in accordance with a private law which has been created by the Brazilian federal government in order to set up a management body for public university hospitals. Underpinned by critical discourse analysis, our purpose is to analyze the embedded ideologies in (...) discursive practices within the UFSC/ebserh public sphere, especially those perpetrated by the federal government’s bureaucratic means as to mystify reality, and also promote and legitimize dominant interests and actions with regard to the UH/ufsc’s affiliation to the EBSERH. We organized this analysis in five main categories: staff shortage and the ideological use of the double standard policy, the ideology of neo-liberalism and managerialism, blame avoidance behavior and the ideological dispute between ideology and pragmatism, the policy of terror and the fallacy of choice and ideology of participationism. (shrink)

A Filosofia Política encontrou-se ultimamente com desafios normativos que exigem cada vez mais esforços para respondê-los, tais como: despolitização da esfera pública, cosmopolitismo, soberania, direitos humanos, tolerância etc. Este artigo pretende responder ao problema da despolitização da esfera pública levando em consideração um argumento social-ontológico para a pesquisa crítica no qual assume a posição de que o orçamento participativo enquanto instituição participativa pode auxiliar no processo de repolitização da esfera pública ao se constituir na sociedade democrática enquanto medium normativo com (...) pretensões de resolução das patologias sociais de uma comunidade social. (shrink)