Pandêmica e biopolítica
| Autor | Nubia Cortes Márquez |
| Cargo | Doctora en antropología social. Profesora-investigadora del Centro de Estudios de Geografía Humana. El Colegio de Michoacán, México. ORCID Id: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0332-4583 E-mail: nubia.cortes@gmail.com |
| Páginas | 607-630 |
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DOI: 10.12957/rdc.2021. 54656
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PANDEMIC AND BIOPOLITICS
PANDÊMICA E BIOPOLÍTICA
Jorge Vélez Vega
Nubia Cortés Márquez
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Our city dies lost count of all the dead. Her
sons lie in the dirt unpitied, unlamented. Corpses
spread the pestilence, while youthful wives and grey-
haired mothers on the altar steps wail everywhere
and cry in supplication, seeking to relieve their
agonizing pain. Their solemn chants ring out they
daughter, send your support and strength, your
lovely countenance!
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Sophocles, Oedipus Rex
ABSTRACT
The circulation of the SARS-COV-2 virus has generated a whole range of economic, social, health and
securitarian effects on the planetary population, the consequences of which are not only reduced to
the containment of mass contagion, but have had an impact on the daily lives of humans. As a result
of the biopolitical strategies implemented by different States, the biological life of human beings is
currently governed by other means justified in order to maintain health or prevent death from
COVID-19 disease. The essay main goal is to analyze this event through concepts proposed and
developed by Michel Foucault concerning biopower and biopolitics. These concepts can criticize the
power over life exercised by both States and international organizations seeking to regulate the
effects of the virus and disease. Also, through the framework o f biopolitics, we can show the
characteristic event of the 21st century: the transition from epidemics and endemics to pandemics.
What this essay is trying to show is the extreme biologization of the lives o f humans who cannot
delinquete from that identity, on which it operates a whole series of biopolitical strategies to control
it.
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Doctora en antropología social. Profesora-inv estigadora d el Centro de Estudios de Geografía Humana. El
Colegio de Michoacán México. ORCID Id: https://orcid.org/0000 -0002-0332-4583 E-mail:
nubia.cortes@gmail.com
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From the translation by Ian Johnston, Malaspina University-College, Nan aimo, BC, BY-NC-SA, (August 2004).
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DOI: 10.12957/rdc.2021. 54656
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Key words: SARS-COV-2, biopolitics, Pandemic, security, circulation.
RESUMO
A circulação do vírus SARS-COV-2 gerou toda uma gama de efeitos econômicos, sociais, de saúde e
securitários na população planetária, cujas consequências não se reduzem apenas à contenção do
contágio em massa, mas impactam a vida diária dos humanos. Como resultado das estratégias
biopolíticas implementadas por diferentes Estados, a vida biológica do ser humano é atualmente
regida por outros meios justificados para m anter a saúde ou prevenir a morte por doença COVID-19.
O o bjetivo do ensaio é analisar esse evento por meio de conceitos propostos e desenvolvidos por
Michel Foucault sobre biopoder e biopolítica. Esses conceitos podem criticar o poder sobre a vida
exercido tanto por Estados quanto por organizações internacionais que buscam regular os efeitos do
vírus e da doença. Além disso, através do quadro da biopolítica, podemos mostrar o acontecimento
característico do século 21: a transição das epidemias e endemias para as pandemias. O que este
ensaio tenta mostrar é a extrema biologização da vida de humanos que não podem se delinear
daquela identidade, na qual opera toda uma série de estratégias biopolíticas para controlá-la.
Palavras-chave: SARS-COV-2, biopolítica, pandemia, segurança, circulação.
INTRODUCTION
By September 18th, 2020, The SARS-CoV-2 virus had infected 30,660,492 people, and caused
956, 969 deaths worldwide. The numbers for Mexico were 688,954 cases and 72,803
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deaths. In light
of this tragic situation, the objective of our study is to analyze this scourge using co ncepts developed
by Michel Foucault in relation to biopower and biopolitics. Our approach thus sets out from the final
chapter of his book The History of Sexuality. The Will to Knowledge,
th, 1976, in the course
Defending society, and January 11th, 1978, in a course called Security, territory, population. The
relevance of Foucauldian concepts emerges, above all, from the fundamental fact of biopower, which
invades the totality of life to administrate by controlling bodies at both the individual and population
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For more information, go to the official website of the gove rnment of Mexico:
https://www.gob.mx/salud/documentos/coronavirus-covid-19-comunicado -tecnico-diario-238449
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