Biopolitics and (in)security in Foucault: elements for a diagnosis of the management of the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil
Faced with the criticism of the biopolitical control exercised in the COVID-19 pandemic, we defend the importance of a re-examination of the foucauldian reflections so that the critical diagnoses of the present is accompanied by a careful analysis of the fields of force and knowledges in which such...
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| author | Daniel Verginelli Galantin Thiago Fortes Ribas |
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| description | Faced with the criticism of the biopolitical control exercised in the COVID-19 pandemic, we defend the importance of a re-examination of the foucauldian reflections so that the critical diagnoses of the present is accompanied by a careful analysis of the fields of force and knowledges in which such controls occur. Bearing in mind the correlation between security mechanisms and the management of insecurities, we argue that in the management of the pandemic by the brazilian executive government, the excesses of power took place more due to the lack of imposing restrictive health measures and obstacles to the control of contagion than through restrictive actions of classical individual freedoms. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-1146ea206eaf44448e54fe08891707212024-02-02T20:07:23ZengEditora Universitária Champagnat - PUCPRESSRevista de Filosofia0104-44431980-59342022-04-01346110.7213/1980-5934.34.061.DS0811349Biopolitics and (in)security in Foucault: elements for a diagnosis of the management of the COVID-19 pandemic in BrazilDaniel Verginelli Galantin0https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3833-7955Thiago Fortes Ribas1https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4883-8737PUC-PR/UFPRUFRJFaced with the criticism of the biopolitical control exercised in the COVID-19 pandemic, we defend the importance of a re-examination of the foucauldian reflections so that the critical diagnoses of the present is accompanied by a careful analysis of the fields of force and knowledges in which such controls occur. Bearing in mind the correlation between security mechanisms and the management of insecurities, we argue that in the management of the pandemic by the brazilian executive government, the excesses of power took place more due to the lack of imposing restrictive health measures and obstacles to the control of contagion than through restrictive actions of classical individual freedoms.https://periodicos.pucpr.br/aurora/article/view/28956foucault. biopolitics. mechanisms of security. pandemics. brazilian government. |
| spellingShingle | Daniel Verginelli Galantin Thiago Fortes Ribas Biopolitics and (in)security in Foucault: elements for a diagnosis of the management of the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil Revista de Filosofia foucault. biopolitics. mechanisms of security. pandemics. brazilian government. |
| title | Biopolitics and (in)security in Foucault: elements for a diagnosis of the management of the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil |
| title_full | Biopolitics and (in)security in Foucault: elements for a diagnosis of the management of the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil |
| title_fullStr | Biopolitics and (in)security in Foucault: elements for a diagnosis of the management of the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil |
| title_full_unstemmed | Biopolitics and (in)security in Foucault: elements for a diagnosis of the management of the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil |
| title_short | Biopolitics and (in)security in Foucault: elements for a diagnosis of the management of the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil |
| title_sort | biopolitics and in security in foucault elements for a diagnosis of the management of the covid 19 pandemic in brazil |
| topic | foucault. biopolitics. mechanisms of security. pandemics. brazilian government. |
| url | https://periodicos.pucpr.br/aurora/article/view/28956 |
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