ABSTRACT:
The idea that internationalizing education is a task that higher education in Brazil can’t escape from mobilizes discussions carried out throughout this article. Based on the premise that Science Without Borders Program is configured as a power/knowledge device, we reflect on discursive regularities and power effects linked to a set of statements that have the internationalization of education as a reference. At first, we discussed the program as a discursive event and as a device of governmentality; afterwards, we analyzed some enunciative sequences taken from a more comprehensive database, composed of documents and interviews done to subjects who had educational experience with this program. The discussions are based on bibliographical research, documentary research and narrative interviews (BAUER & GASKEL, 2002BAUER, M. W; GASKEL, G. Pesquisa qualitativa com texto, imagem e som: um manual prático I. Tradução de Pedrinho A. Guareschi. - Petrópolis, RJ: Vozes, 2002.). In addition to the discursive analysis of this material, we use the archegenealogical method developed by Foucault (1999, 2008, 2014, 2015FOUCAULT, M. Ditos e escritos: Ética, estratégia, poder-saber. In: MOTTA, M. B. da (org.). Tradução de Vera Lúcia Avellar Ribeiro. Rio de Janeiro: Forense Universitária , v. 4, 2015a.), as well as Deleuze (2011), Veyne (2011) and Navarro (2004NAVARRO, P. L. O acontecimento discursivo e a construção de identidade na História. In: SARGENTINI, V.; BARBOSA, P. L. N. (org.). M. Foucault e os domínios da linguagem: discurso, poder, subjetividade. São Carlos: Claraluz, 2004., 2011, 2015).
Keywords:
Discourse; Event; Device; Governmentality; Science Without Borders Program