Biopolitics and Covid-19: an effort to understand Brazil

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https://doi.org/10.5902/2179378643904

Keywords:

Biopolitics, Covid-19, Sovereignty, Neoliberalism

Abstract

Michel Foucault’s biopolitics notion is often used in the most various contexts, due its singular analytic potential utilization. This work aims to investigate the notion intelligibility to understand the political management of Covid-19 in Brazil. The consolidation of biopolitical strategies was related with social practices that constitutes a political sovereign body. Therefore, the way we choose to understand the Brazilian context was realized that critical use of biopolitics notion must consider a national political practice based in a peripheral neoliberalism and neocolonial logics.     

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Author Biography

Ítalo do Nascimento Oliveira Borba, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, RJ

PhD student of Philosophy at Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, RJ

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Published

2020-07-29

How to Cite

Borba, Ítalo do N. O. (2020). Biopolitics and Covid-19: an effort to understand Brazil. Voluntas: International Journal of Philosophy, 11, e48. https://doi.org/10.5902/2179378643904

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Vol. 11 (2020): Special Issue: Pandemic and Philosophy

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Special Ed.: Pandemic and Philosophy (continuous publication)

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