The Case of Brazil
| Autor: | Vanessa Boanada Fuchs |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
| Zdroj: | The International Journal of Social Quality. 11:111-142 |
| ISSN: | 1757-0352 1757-0344 |
| DOI: | 10.3167/ijsq.2021.11010208 |
| Popis: | This article analyzes the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the lives of the Amazonian populations of Brazil. Following the social quality approach, it inquires into how COVID-19 intertwined with and reinforced underlying trends and inequalities in different life domains expressed in long-term societal complexities, urban–rural dynamics, and environmental transformations. The article finds that the pandemic, following coloniality of power patterns, has been instrumentalized as a necropolitical tool, and has disproportionately impacted certain peoples and territories based on ethnoracial bias. The collapse of the local health system in the State of Amazonas is a systemic burden, not serendipity. A dialogue is proposed between decolonial and social quality approaches to analyze, unveil, and denounce the interplay between the coloniality of power patterns in non-Western contexts. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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