Programa Bolsa Família: uma nova modalidade de biopolítica

the purpose of this article is to show how the family allowance program (programa bolsa família - pbf) refers to a form of biopolitics such as evoked by foucault. besides illustrating how the pbf is inscribed in a normalizing perspective, the article seeks to show how the social services and the education "for a lifetime" play an important role in terms of building up subjectivity processes and subjective opinions and feelings whose aim is to guide and control the poor and marginalized populations' behavior.