Abstract

BARROS, JOÃO PAULO PEREIRA et al. Psychology and covid-19 in Brazil: inequalities, precariousness of life and necropolitics. Rev. psicol. polít. [online]. 2023, vol.23, n.57, pp.315-330.  Epub June 07, 2024. ISSN 2175-1390.

The objective is to analyze psychosocial aspects involved in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic in Brazil, taking into account the political management of this phenomenon, with particular attention to actions and omissions of the federal executive branch, as an analyzer of the relationship between unequal precariousness of life and necropolitics in the country. Judith Butler ’s debates on precarious lives, black feminism readings on the intersection of oppressions and Achille Mbembe ’s work on current policies of mortification are combined with discussions of Social Psychology in its analysis of contemporary phenomena. This is a theoretical essay that, in addition, chooses journalistic news about the pandemic as materialities that illustrate the problematization of the intersectional precariousness of lives considered superfluous and the reproduction of ways of making/letting them die. It is argued that the disparities accentuated by the pandemic crisis and the psychosocial production of indifference towards the sacrificial scenario correlative to necroliberal rationality call upon Psychology to problematize/deconstruct ongoing forms of life.

Keywords : Covid-19; social psychology; necropolitics; vulnerability.

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