Genealogy and governmentality in documentary research from Michel Foucault

This article presents a discussion on research methodology, especially about the work with documents, from history with studies on biopolitics, governmentality and the Annales School, in Michel Foucault and in the New Cultural History. It approaches an acontecimental perspective and the practices of knowledge, power and subjectivation, in an analytical aspect of Social Psychology in interface with the work with archives. The article proposes a tactical problematization of discourses in the management of life and health, in the emergence of the neoliberal state and in the provenance of resistance to the practices of safety and business of life. Thus, it is concluded that research with documents is relevant for works in Social Psychology and in the area of health and singularity.