“Vínculos familiares”

Impacto da gestão Bolsonaro-Damares nas políticas científicas

Abstract

This article examines how the theme of family was incorporated into the scientific policies of the Bolsonaro government, focusing on the research calls “Family and Public Policies in Brazil,” launched in 2021 and 2022 by the Ministry of Women, Family, and Human Rights (MMFDH) in partnership with CAPES. Through an ethnographic analysis of the calls and the speeches of political actors in the government about these initiatives, the study explores the use of the category “family bonds” in the formulation and implementation of these research policies. We argue that, on one hand, the implementation of a familist agenda as a scientific policy represented an attempt to “scientify” and translate the anti-gender agenda through the mobilization of the category “family bonds” into state policies. On the other hand, the analysis suggests that, although often interpreted as a “moral agenda,” the centrality of family in these policies played a significant role in deepening the neoliberalization strategies of the state during the Bolsonaro administration.