Necropolitics in the Jungle

Covid-19 and the Marginalisation of Brazil's Forest Peoples

Dados Bibliográficos

ID5000737
AutoresGabriela Russo Lopes (0000-0002-0161-6339, CEDLA University of Amsterdam The Netherlands), Mairon G Bastos Lima (0000-0003-4235-8847, Chalmers University of Technology Sweden)
Ano2020
Volume39
FascículoS1
Páginas92-97
Data de publicação2020-12-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoBulletin of Latin American Research (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0261-3050 • E-ISSN: 1470-9856
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/blar.13177
OpenAlexW3116890529
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas17
Referências citadas6

COVID-19 has been particularly damaging to already vulnerable social groups, such as forest peoples. In Brazil, indigenous, Afro-Brazilian quilombolas and other racialised communities have suffered disproportionately under Bolsonaro's hands-off policy during the pandemic. We argue that, far from happenstance, this policy fits into a form of necropolitics towards forest peoples. Drawing from Achille Mbembe's seminal work, this article analyses how underlying (and sometimes overt) racism, cultural depredation, and government-supported deforestation constitute an assault now catalysed by the pandemic. Understanding forest peoples' disproportionate deaths in perspective is critical for addressing their growing vulnerability and the broader politics currently at play

Archaeology · Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19 · Deforestation (computer science · Development economics · Economics · Ethnology · Geography · Government (linguistics · Indigenous · Jungle · Pandemic · Perspective (graphical · Political science · Politics · Racism · Sociology · Vulnerability (computing · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Gender Studies · Law · Wildlife Conservation and Criminology Analyses · Ecology