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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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Autores principales: Muniz, Renata Cavalcanti, Ferradas, Fiorella Macchiavello, Gomez, Georgina M., Pegler, Lee J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2021
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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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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.
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34874081
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/disa.12528
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