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Non-governmental organizations as power’s devices: from welfare to social control

ABSTRACT

From a Political Psychology perspective and the Foucault’s analytical referential, the study aims to build reflections about non-governmental organizations focused on youth public as power devices. Therefore - from literature reviews and reports of situations experienced by the researcher in this kind of institution - locates strategies of power identified with the discipline and biopolitics, organized from technologies and relationships that control individuals and populations, having their actions and positions justified on the welfare government logic.

Keywords:
power; non-governmental organization; device; control; discipline

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