Gore Capitalism and Necropolitics in Brazil's Malgovernance of the Covid-19 Pandemic
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4501398 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mairon G Bastos Lima (0000-0003-4235-8847), Katerina Hatzikidi (0000-0003-2211-0262), Karen Da Costa (0000-0001-5256-1203) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 52 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 89-101 |
| Publication date | 2025-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Latin American Perspectives (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0094-582X • E-ISSN: 1552-678X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0094582x241311804 |
| OpenAlex | W4406216840 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 29 |
The COVID-19 pandemic caused massive human suffering just as much as it heightened pre-existing socio-economic and political issues. Brazil, where over 700,000 people perished, offers one of the starkest cases as Black and Indigenous lives were particularly neglected through a hands-off approach. While commonly characterized as mismanagement, we argue that the Bolsonaro administration's strategy instead represents a case of malgovernance-where deliberate (in)action rather than technical inaptitude accounts for the policies adopted. We draw from detailed account-taking of the government's actions (and calculated inactions) throughout 2020 to 2022 to offer an elaborate analysis of Brazil's case through the lens of necropolitics and gore capitalism. We expose how a libertarian self-reliance ethic, with racist undertones, joined together with boundless capital accumulation to create a social Darwinist approach to the handling of COVID-19 in Brazil. The malgovernance of the pandemic thus reveals deeper issues that in time may become manifest in newer, grimmer forms
2019-20 coronavirus outbreak · Biopower · Capitalism · Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) · Economic growth · Economics · Outbreak · Pandemic · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) · Sociology · Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance · Employment and Welfare Studies · Internal Medicine · Law · Medicine · Virology · Wildlife Conservation and Criminology Analyses
Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Covid-19–Related Infections, Hospitalizations, and Deaths
Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance
Ethnic and racial disparities in Covid-19-related deaths
Governing Covid-19 without government in Brazil
The intensification of neoliberalism and the commodification of human need – a social work perspective
The Policy Context of Biofuels
International Nonregimes
Mismanagement of Covid-19
Ecocide in the Amazon
Trump’s (mis)management of the Covid-19 pandemic in the US
Meta‐governance
A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things
Talking about Poverty
The Worst Is Not over Yet
Frames of war
Necropolitics in the Jungle
Quo vadis, Brazil? Environmental Malgovernance under Bolsonaro and the Ambiguous Role of the Sustainable Development Goals
Necropolitics
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |