Necropolitics and Biopower in the Pandemic: Death, Social Control or Well-Being

Every crisis creates its own ways to experience life, and, in some cases, death. The crisis generated by COVID-19 allows us to see the worst of times and the best of times to live and die, but it has also opened up the possibility to imagine better times. The crisis is transforming our ways of envis...

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Autor: Sagot Rodríguez, Montserrat
Formato: capítulo de livro
Fecha de publicación:2022
País:Costa Rica
Recursos:Universidad de Costa Rica
Repositorio:Kérwá
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:kerwa.ucr.ac.cr:10669/87026
Acesso em linha:https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv2qnx5gh.14#metadata_info_tab_contents
https://hdl.handle.net/10669/87026
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palavra-chave:Necropolitics
Biopower
Pandemic
DEATH
SOCIAL CONTROL
Well-Being
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Resumo:Every crisis creates its own ways to experience life, and, in some cases, death. The crisis generated by COVID-19 allows us to see the worst of times and the best of times to live and die, but it has also opened up the possibility to imagine better times. The crisis is transforming our ways of envisioning the world and how we live in the it. This is why this is not a health crisis, as some have called it. The COVID-19 pandemic has the potential to become a civilizational crisis that could disrupt social relations, the organization of production, the role of states, the path of neoliberal globalization and even the place of humans in history and nature. This chapter will explore these deeper aspects of the crisis of contemporary capitalism, especially how the pandemic made contemporary necropolitics and biopower even more visible.