THE NEOLIBERAL STATE AND ITS RELATIONSHIP WITH ETHICAL-POLITICAL SUFFERING AMONG PROFESSORS AT A PUBLIC UNIVERSITY

Abstract

In the contemporary context, marked by the growing presence of digital technologies and the intensification of the flexibilization of labor relations, significant transformations are observed in the forms of hiring and working conditions, which do not break with the structural logic of the capital/labor relationship, but rather update it under new devices and discourses. As a consequence, different professional categories have been facing losses of historically acquired rights, including in the area of social security. This article is situated within this scenario, focusing on the ethical-political suffering produced by the precarious hiring policies of teachers within the neoliberal state, which uses the contributions of public employees as justification for negotiations between the Federal and Federal governments, based on the experience lived in a state public university. The context intensified from 2014 onwards, when the problem emerged more clearly, impacting the daily lives of higher education professors, A documentary analysis was chosen, using 2014 as a timeframe and continuing until 2017 in the legal-documentary survey. This approach was necessary given the complexity of the phenomenon and the urgency of understanding it critically, highlighting its contradictions and implications for the lives of workers, implications that persist to the present day. A hiring model is observed that appears to promote inclusion through a selection process, but which, in fact, subjects teachers to instability, burnout, and subsequent exclusion—a phenomenon characterized by Sawaia as "perverse inclusion."