O discurso hegemônico e idealista na troca do termo favela por comunidade

Abstract

• This work has as general objective to understand the power relations in the change of the word "slum" to "community", as a specific objective, to find and / or to consider its meaning. The methods that conduct the research are from literature review. The theoretical foundations that underlie this study take into consideration a critical analytical study of discourse based on Van Dijk (2012), the theorists who guide the socio-historical-cultural study on the favela and senzala Silva (2019) and Nascimento e Nascimento (2012); the concept of postmodernity guided by the critic Terry Eagleton (1983) and philosopher Agnes Heller (1989); and the perspective of society by Durkheim (apud. ALMEIDA. 2018). The research question that guides this work is this: How was this word softened in the language and what fact / historical factor does it refer to? The resulting direction of the research denotes that the word refers to the "social slave" and the factor of non-integration of the period of abolition of slavery.