In this thesis, I will analyze the intersections of the neoliberal order with citizenship and higher education, using as a case study the manifesto A Bridge to the Future, which materializes in public policies such as Constitutional Amendment 95/2016 – the Public Spending Cap. In a macro sense, the new market order is dispersed in the international system through economic globalization, where the guidelines of International Organizations such as UNESCO, World Bank, and OECD reproduce and legitimize their premises. On the local level, the market order transforms, creating a bottom-up neoliberalism and increasingly fractured citizenship – sublimating through the annihilation of the social and destabilization of access to rights. Thus, this thesis focuses on the deterioration of neoliberalism in the spaces and territories of the social and the political, seeking to reflect on: How the discourses present in the manifesto A Bridge to the Future affect and intersect with citizenship, higher education, and the university? For this purpose, I use the critical discourse analysis of Fairclough, which allows a linguistic and semiotic analysis of social processes and their interconnected practices with the globalized neoliberal order; I investigate, beyond a document, a political scenario – a network of discourses that symbolizes a period of deepening neoliberal policies marked by the loss and/or reduction of access to collective rights such as citizenship and higher education.