Brazil in the Time of Coronavirus

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ID5877977
AuthorsMaite Conde (0000-0001-8856-2689, University of Cambridge, corresponding author)
Year2020
Volume11
IssueEspecial
Pages239-249
Publication date2020-05-11
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueGeopolítica(s) Revista de estudios sobre espacio y poder (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2172-7155 • E-ISSN: 2172-3958
PublisherUniversidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.5209/geop.69349
OpenAlexW3025164313
LanguageEN
Citations received9
References cited1

This essay outlines and analyses the spread of the coronavirus in Brazil. In doing so it explores how the pandemic, whilst initially brought into the country by the wealthy elite, has predominantly affected the country's poor, revealing structural inequalities that encompass class, race and ethnic differences, in which the poor are not afforded the right to live. It additionally examines the response to COVID-19 by the country's far right president, Jair Messias Bolsonaro, looking at how his laissez faire reaction to the virus builds on a history of violence against the marginalized, especially to the country's indigenous peoples, that has not just excluded them from the nation state but at times actively and violently eradicated them

Coronavirus · Development economics · Economic growth · Economics · Elite · Ethnic group · Ethnology · Indigenous · Inequality · Pandemic · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Gender Studies · History · Law · Medicine · Social and Economic Solidarity

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