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Covid‐19 in Brazil in an era of necropolitics: resistance in the face of disaster
The Covid‐19 pandemic has been a massive disaster in Brazil, causing more than 350,000 deaths as of April 2021. Moreover, President Jair Bolsonaro suggested that already marginalised groups should take what came to them, as if they were an expendable surplus in his necropolitical perspective. Howeve...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9300065/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34874081 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/disa.12528 |
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author | Muniz, Renata Cavalcanti Ferradas, Fiorella Macchiavello Gomez, Georgina M. Pegler, Lee J. |
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description | The Covid‐19 pandemic has been a massive disaster in Brazil, causing more than 350,000 deaths as of April 2021. Moreover, President Jair Bolsonaro suggested that already marginalised groups should take what came to them, as if they were an expendable surplus in his necropolitical perspective. However, civil society initiatives are emerging to tackle the impacts of this crisis. This paper adds to current literature on the forms and levels of resistance to disasters, using primary and secondary data pertaining to three key Brazilian groups: domestic workers; the urban poor in favelas; and indigenous Amazonians. The analysis indicates that their historical, political resistance has been a foundation upon which to develop disaster mitigation and their actions have built on and gone beyond previous modes of organising. More specifically, their responses have replaced a ‘present–absent’ federal government, entailed local, innovative adaptations, led to new public–private sector relations, and may offer the prospect of consolidation. |
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spelling | pubmed-93000652022-07-21 Covid‐19 in Brazil in an era of necropolitics: resistance in the face of disaster Muniz, Renata Cavalcanti Ferradas, Fiorella Macchiavello Gomez, Georgina M. Pegler, Lee J. Disasters Papers The Covid‐19 pandemic has been a massive disaster in Brazil, causing more than 350,000 deaths as of April 2021. Moreover, President Jair Bolsonaro suggested that already marginalised groups should take what came to them, as if they were an expendable surplus in his necropolitical perspective. However, civil society initiatives are emerging to tackle the impacts of this crisis. This paper adds to current literature on the forms and levels of resistance to disasters, using primary and secondary data pertaining to three key Brazilian groups: domestic workers; the urban poor in favelas; and indigenous Amazonians. The analysis indicates that their historical, political resistance has been a foundation upon which to develop disaster mitigation and their actions have built on and gone beyond previous modes of organising. More specifically, their responses have replaced a ‘present–absent’ federal government, entailed local, innovative adaptations, led to new public–private sector relations, and may offer the prospect of consolidation. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2021-12-07 2021-12 /pmc/articles/PMC9300065/ /pubmed/34874081 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/disa.12528 Text en © 2021 The Authors Disasters © 2021 Overseas Development Institute https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Papers Muniz, Renata Cavalcanti Ferradas, Fiorella Macchiavello Gomez, Georgina M. Pegler, Lee J. Covid‐19 in Brazil in an era of necropolitics: resistance in the face of disaster |
title | Covid‐19 in Brazil in an era of necropolitics: resistance in the face of disaster |
title_full | Covid‐19 in Brazil in an era of necropolitics: resistance in the face of disaster |
title_fullStr | Covid‐19 in Brazil in an era of necropolitics: resistance in the face of disaster |
title_full_unstemmed | Covid‐19 in Brazil in an era of necropolitics: resistance in the face of disaster |
title_short | Covid‐19 in Brazil in an era of necropolitics: resistance in the face of disaster |
title_sort | covid‐19 in brazil in an era of necropolitics: resistance in the face of disaster |
topic | Papers |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9300065/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34874081 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/disa.12528 |
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