ABSTRACT:
This article aims to identify and describe strategies to legitimize scientific policies towards the internationalization of a public university in São Paulo countryside, from 2009 to 2016. The reference corpus is comprised of the analysis of official discourses on the subject (local and translocal), local calls for research funding, and for courses and seminars focused on innovation and research internationalization. The results of the analysis of this material show that in internationalization strategies during such focused period also had the role of management and reproduction of institutional power and, consequently, the hierarchy reproduction of actors and discourses within the institution. The importance attributed to rankings, especially the international ones, was maintained in the formulation and legitimation of local stimulus or induction policies for innovation, research and international cooperation. And as far as hierarchies in the institutional field are concerned, criteria and norms peculiar to the international rankings, taken as impartial and objective, explain the historically marginal position of the human sciences, particularly of language studies, in the processes of definition and implementation of local internationalization policies, including language policies.
Keywords:
Internationalization; Public university; Political and social legitimacy; Institutional power