The strange fear of inclusion

Abstract

This article has for its objective the analysis of the discourses on “inclusion”, which always point towards a determinate degree of selectivity and emphasize difference through prejudice. The contradiction of these discourses, within the Foucaultian perspective, begins to be evidenced through the archeology of the institutional structures composing the different forms of organizations of societies in their contradictions and different social practices. In exchange, the sentiment of segregation instigates a perfectioning of defenses, creating other structures parallel to the State, that could turn out to be more violent that the stated offences. The trends of the discourses on inclusion are rooted in extremely varied peripheries of social problems that have always been denominated anomalies and which propose to conjugate the distribution of normalization and which sustain “disciplinary power” implicit in society, always directed to reducing or neutralizing existing conflicts. It is found that the discourse on inclusion supports itself on other systems and mechanisms of exclusion, supporting a conjunction of institutional strategies while, at the same time, being reinforced and conducted by deeper social practices. Inclusion aligns itself in historical defenses that traverse general orientations, joined not only inn regulations, which are independent of individual compromises with possible change, for its resistances are found in the very structures of society that have always been discriminating, hence segregative. Contradictorily, it is this very society that produces discourses on inclusion, as a moralized and resolved social practice. These discourses cannot be understood separately from these practices, in their different correlations of forces and contradictions.