Michel Foucault and Ethical Subjectivity in Social Mobilizations for Health in Colombia

Abstract

The recognition of ethical subjectivities of reflexive indocility is possible from the dialogue with Michel Foucault in the context of social mobilizations for health in Colombia, it allows us to understand that the event is the production of the subject by the modes of government over life, subjects historically located in the health system who suffer the effects of regulatory discourses and the crises that produce critical and reflective experimentation of themselves as a strategic element to not be governed within the negative limits of the disease. On the contrary, it consolidates the governance of life through the constitution of an ethical subjectivity, an emancipatory bet that proposes access to the truth of oneself that challenges the effects of regimes as a liberating practice that nourishes critical resistance and self-care as a front in social struggles for health. In the present problematization it is coherent to evoke Foucauldian theory on governmentality to analyze the techniques of control over the life and body of patients and communities in contrast with the critical and reflective production in the constitution of the ethical subjectivity of patients as an axis of the current social mobilizations for health in Colombia.