Pandemic techno-politics in the Global South

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ID12839447
AuthorsRodrigo José Firmino (0000-0002-0831-6603, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná, corresponding author), R Evangelista (0000-0001-5446-5792, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná)
Year2023
Volume28
Issue4
Pages453-467
Publication date2023-06-09
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueInformation Polity (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1875-8754 • E-ISSN: 1570-1255
PublisherIOS Press (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.3233/ip-211514
OpenAlexW4380079981
LanguageEN
References cited10

Brazil has been standing out as one of the worst places on Earth to be during a global health crisis, especially for those whose struggle for basic humanitarian rights is already routine. How do the political environment and historical inequalities in countries like Brazil affect the ways in which public policy and technologies are framed as responses for the pandemic crisis? In this paper we aim to present the sequence of actions and omissions in the fight against sars-cov2 in Brazil, concentrating on measures based on the use of digital technologies and the sociotechnical arrangements unfolding in materialities that give shape to such measures. We will also discuss possible repercussions of the widespread adoption of surveillance technologies as a quick fix to the effects of the pandemic. Our focus is to explain how the materiality of the virus and its political as well as territorial effects are combined with digital technologies as responses (or lack of them) in the fields of healthcare, education, communication and labour in the context of the Global South

Context (archaeology · Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19 · Economics · Emerging technologies · Geography · Management · Materiality (auditing · Pandemic · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Sociology · Sociotechnical system · COVID-19 Digital Contact Tracing · Global Security and Public Health · Law

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