Resumen

SALES, André Luis Leite de Figueirêdo  y  ROCHA, Cristianne Maria Famer. Thinking on necropolitics through conduct disputes during the Covid-19 Pandemic. Estud. psicol. (Natal) [online]. 2024, vol.29, e242905.  Epub 10-Nov-2025. ISSN 1413-294X.  https://doi.org/10.69909/1678-4669.20240005.

The COVID-19 pandemic has popularized the concept of necropolitics in Brazil. Journalists and researchers have used the term to describe the rationality of the lethal recommendations made by Jair Messias Bolsonaro to citizens. The objective of this essay is to construct an analytical route, drawing on a crucial differentiation made by Michel Foucault between power relations and practices of domination. To do so, we mobilize Foucauldian notions of governmentality and counter-conduct. We also revisit the distinction between power and domination to underline how Brazilians not only resisted, individually and collectively, the lethal presidential orders, but also refused and reinvented them. Working with secondary data and bibliographic review, we argue that the actions of counter-conduct to necropolitics configure an art of engendering relations of force to govern oneself, and one's own, conveniently, with a view to increasing fields of possibilities, avoiding vital extinction.

Palabras llave : Conterconduct; Covid-19; Brazil; Necropolitics; Foucault.

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