Abstract

SANDOVAL-DIAZ, José  and  DIAZ, Diego Palacios. New normal and the false health/economy dilemma during the Covid-19 pandemic in Latin America. Rev. psicol. polít. [online]. 2021, vol.21, n.51, pp. 570-589. ISSN 2175-1390.

Covid-19 has intensified the health and economic crisis in Latin America, strongly affecting a safe return to the Nation-State. This governmental will, regulated by coping devices in the face of "pandemic exceptionality", has been accompanied by the discursive set-up of a "new normal". Being aware of this problem and starting from the theoretical-methodological principles of the critical discourse analysis, we seek to examine the construction of this "new normal" in the speeches of the Brazil, Chile, and Ecuador presidents in the current pandemic context. The main findings conceive the new normal not only as a device that has translated old governmental practices under the State of emergency legitimacy, but also as a continuous process of Latin American vulnerability and colonization. Finally, this device is problematized both by the installation of the false dilemma between health and economy, and by its semiotic ability to align itself with the hegemonic discursive order of regional neoliberalism.

Keywords : Covid-19; Speeches; Governmentality; New Normal; Pandemic.

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