@article{Roes Dalmolin_Machado Silveira_2016, title={An Abyss Guarded: Security and Sovereignty in Televisual Journalistic Discourse about Amazon Frontiers}, volume={5}, url={https://journals.eagora.org/revSOCIAL/article/view/368}, DOI={10.37467/gka-revsocial.v5.368}, abstractNote={<p>The Amazon region, when it’s part of the agenda of the Brazilian media, reflects an interesting contradiction: despite being the target of intense surveillance by national vehicles it remains covered by a large shadow region. This article seeks to reflect about the journalistic coverage of the international borders of the country and its object are the matters displayed on a TV show named Fantástico, on Globo Television of Brazil, which comment Amazon frontiers. The notions of discourse and discursive formations, developed by Michel Foucault (1971 2008b), give support to methodological appropriation of the empirical object. Another Foucault’s concept, the panoptic (Foucault, 2012), coupled with the comprehension of abyssal epistemological lines, according to Boaventura de Souza Santos (2007), help us to circumscribe theoretically the research problem. As a result, we verified that the analyzed television materials reproduce the border stigma which exists in the coverage of other vehicles, observed in previous studies, acting as alarm systems (Silveira, 2009, 2012), giving too much emphasis to aspects such as risks to national sovereignty, instead of the cultural and identity contexts border and the peculiarities of the Amazon context.</p>}, number={1}, journal={SOCIAL REVIEW. International Social Sciences Review / Revista Internacional de Ciencias Sociales}, author={Roes Dalmolin, Aline and Machado Silveira, Ada Cristina}, year={2016}, month={Mar.}, pages={29–41} }