Subaltern subjects and (necro)politics to combat COVID-19 in Brazil

Authors

  • Dyego de Oliveira Arruda Centro Federal de Educação Tecnológica Celso Suckow da Fonseca (CEFET/RJ)
  • Caroline Oliveira Santos Centro Federal de Educação Tecnológica Celso Suckow da Fonseca (CEFET/RJ)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.47456/argumentum.v14i3.34193

Abstract

Starting from the concept of necropolitics, this article aims to problematize the way in which public policies to combat COVID-19 in Brazil, throughout 2020, influenced the context of death of subjects historically subalternized in the country. The specific focus of the analyzes was the strategies to encourage social distancing, in addition to emergency aid, considered essential public policies to face COVID-19. In summary, it was noticed that such public policies were implemented in Brazil from an arrangement that caused confusion, information asymmetry and agglomerations of historically subalternizes subjects. Therefore, it was concluded that public policies to combat COVID-19 ended up, in practice, transmuting themselves into necropolitics that amplified the risks of death of subalternized bodies in Brazil, in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Author Biographies

Dyego de Oliveira Arruda, Centro Federal de Educação Tecnológica Celso Suckow da Fonseca (CEFET/RJ)

Economista. Doutor em Administração de Organizações pela USP. Professor de cursos de Graduação e do Mestrado em Relações Étnico-Raciais (PPRER) no Centro Federal de Educação Tecnológica Celso Suckow da Fonseca (CEFET, Valença, Brasil).

Caroline Oliveira Santos, Centro Federal de Educação Tecnológica Celso Suckow da Fonseca (CEFET/RJ)

Matemática. Mestra em Estatística pela Universidade Federal de Lavras. Professora do curso de graduação em Administração.  (CEFET/RJ, Valença, Brasil).

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Published

29-12-2022

How to Cite

Arruda, D. de O., & Santos, C. O. (2022). Subaltern subjects and (necro)politics to combat COVID-19 in Brazil. Argumentum, 14(3), 151–164. https://doi.org/10.47456/argumentum.v14i3.34193

Issue

Vol. 14 No. 3 (2022): Trabalho, emprego e renda: as condições de vida de trabalhadoras e trabalhadores em tempos de domínio tecnológico na produção

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Temas Livres

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