Biopolitics and (in)security in Foucault: elements for a diagnosis of the management of the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7213/1980-5934.34.061.DS08

Keywords:

Foucault. Biopolitics. Mechanisms of security. Pandemics. Brazilian government.

Abstract

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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Author Biographies

Daniel Verginelli Galantin, PUC-PR/UFPR

Pesquisador de Pós-doutorado PNPD/CAPES no Programa de Pós-Graduação em Filosofia da PUC-PR e professor colaborador do Departamento de Filosofia da UFPR.

Thiago Fortes Ribas, UFRJ

Professor do Departamento de Fundamentos da Educação da UFRJ

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Published

2022-04-20

How to Cite

Galantin, D. V., & Ribas, T. F. (2022). Biopolitics and (in)security in Foucault: elements for a diagnosis of the management of the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil . Revista De Filosofia Aurora, 34(61). https://doi.org/10.7213/1980-5934.34.061.DS08