Abstract
This paper characterizes two moments in the history of Institutional Analysis (IA) in Brazil, focusing on the city of Rio de Janeiro: the early 21st century, when IA could be considered a “paradigm without a past”; and the last six years, when it “calls a spade by any other name”, weaving a network between IA and other discourses and practices, such as those linked to non-legal conceptions of human rights, to racial and/or gender struggles, decolonial-anticolonial movements, etc, which revive the paradigm. At the same time, this approach seeks to characterize the different generations of Brazilian institutionalists, mainly based on experiences in public universities. The text strives to diagnose the present, and this first experimentation, certainly partial, seeks to build an ethical-political genealogy of IA in Brazil, in articulation with the paths of psychology as knowledge and profession.
Keywords:
Institutional Analysis; Diagnosis of the Present; Psychology; Ethics; Politics