Access, on this page, important studies carried out by members of other research groups and institutions, which contribute to the organization and analysis of information about the pandemic and its impacts:

Peripheries in the pandemic

This website , created by several researchers, linked to the Center for Studies in Conflict and Peace (CCP/NUPIR/USP) and also led by the Perseu Abramo Foundation's Perseu Abramo Reconnection project, includes several testimonies of people who lived through the pandemic in Brazilian peripheries . The central objective of the initiative is to create a memorial that portrays the difficulties of the daily struggle of these peripheral subjects. In addition to the testimonies, it is also possible to find on the website events and academic publications prepared by the project members, such as the latest publication: “ The margins of the state in the pandemic: peripheral experiences of human (in)security in Brazil ”.

Activism in the time of COVID

In several countries, COVID-19 has amplified health and socioeconomic inequalities, which encourage social mobilization. The article analyzes how the pandemic may have affected complex reactions against social inequalities. The article, authored by Peter Grant and Heather Smith can be accessed here .

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Research on police violence in the peripheries in the pandemic

The Security Observatories Network is “an initiative of academic institutions and civil society from Bahia, Ceará, Pernambuco, Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo dedicated to monitoring public security policies and crime in these states”. The Network carried out a survey on police operations in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro in March this year, and found a 23% reduction in the number of operations, compared to the same month in 2019. The decrease in police activities occurred mainly after the March 16th. See the report with the search results here

Net-activism, pandemic and Brazilian Amerindian peoples: struggle and resistance in digital ecologies

This article points out how Amerindian net-activism is articulated in digital media, taking into account ethnic diversity and social vulnerabilities, during the pandemic period. Part of the analysis of three Instagram profiles: @midiaindiaoficial, @apiboficial and @visibilidadeindigena. It appears that the publications of these profiles are marked by: I) mobilization and dissemination about care in a pandemic period, vaccination and updating of statistical data (vaccinated, dead and contaminated); II) raising awareness and denouncing violations of Amerindian rights; and III) dissemination of its achievements in the field of arts, studies, legislation, among others. The authors argue that native peoples started to inhabit these digital spaces, as ecology, both of struggle and resistance.

Fat women in the pandemic: fatphobia, (re)existences and fat activism

The article discusses the interrelationships between fatphobia, (re)existences and fat activism, regarding the experiences of fat women during the new coronavirus pandemic. The authors are based on their experiences as fat women, from an autoethnographic perspective, in dialogue with the theoretical-critical contribution that highlights the field of fat body studies, the decolonial movement, fat activism and decolonial feminism in dialogue with fat feminism. . The authors discuss how the pandemic of the new coronavirus highlighted fatphobia in Brazil, at the time it exacerbated it, as well as in what ways the activism of fat women has taken place in this process of confronting prejudice.

Children's digital activism in times of a pandemic

The main objective of this work is to present some of the actions of children considered digital influencers to promote awareness and face Covid-19. Data collection was carried out from a digital ethnography, analyzing social networks and news linked in the media of eleven children from different countries (Brazil, United States, Uganda and Sweden). The authors argue that the Internet has enabled minority groups, such as children, to become more visible, allowing this social group to engage in actions they consider relevant, obtaining greater visibility of their struggles through networks and accessing people who were previously disregarded in social networks. agendas of social movements.

Challenging the boundaries between unions and social movements in the midst of the pandemic: coalition campaigns in defense of the SUS in the city of São Paulo in 2020

The research evaluates the coalition strategies between health unions and social movements in the city of São Paulo. Both had already been using coalition campaigns even before the pandemic and, with the advent of the pandemic, sought to mobilize social commotion and were successful at the local level, despite important defeats at the municipal level. The analyzed campaigns have different degrees of “depth” and results, but among their main actions are: carrying out small protests and “lightning acts”; the combination of communication through social networks with the quest to attract the attention of press vehicles; the support of parliamentarians and other social movements in the neighborhoods; and appeals to the Public Ministry and the Municipal Court of Auditors

Indigenous movements, pandemic and social control: strategies for mobilization and coping with COVID-19 by indigenous peoples in Brazil

The study addresses how indigenous movements from different parts of the country denounced, throughout the pandemic, the omissions in differentiated health care for indigenous populations as an intentional and systematic genocide by the Brazilian State. The lack of resonance of their demands within state structures has led indigenous movements to implement alternative actions to face the epidemic. Taking as a focus of analysis the Plans to Combat COVID-19 of indigenous movements from different regions of the country, the present work sought to analyze the strategies for exercising social control in indigenous health that have been configuring mobilizations, articulations and important denunciations for both prevention and prevention. and treatment of Covid-19 and for the improvement of Indigenous Health care in the country.

Mobilization in Rio's favelas against the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic

The article is based on interviews, carried out since January 2021, to address the consequences of the coronavirus pandemic in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, analyzing, first, the precariousness of public policies in these places and the unfolding of this reality in the context of Covid-19. The study also intends to question the notion of favelas as spaces of absence to understand the richness and creativity of the knowledge that circulates there and that are manifested precisely in contexts of crises, such as the current pandemic.

Factors of social (de)mobilization in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic by the peripheral populations of Belo Horizonte-MG

The article analyzes the community initiatives that emerged during the pandemic to mitigate the impacts of the pandemic on communities. The authors problematize that these actions depend on the solidarity and empathy of the subjects, which is not always the case. Through a communicational look at the dynamics of (de)mobilization, the authors seek to understand them from three perspectives: contact conditions; conditions of collectivization and conditions of empathy, based on the observation of the 1st Meeting of Periferia Viva – Covid 19 Task Force, an articulating project carried out in Belo Horizonte.

Banking union action and mobilization repertoires in the COVID-19 pandemic

The study is based on an ethnographic field research with bank union leaders in the interior of Rio Grande do Sul to analyze the mobilization repertoires put into practice by bank unionism, during the first year of the pandemic, as well as the possibilities and challenges of action. union. The results showed that the union's confrontations were not restricted to the usual guidelines, such as guaranteeing wages and working conditions, with a shift in the mobilization repertoires to defend the health and life of workers. The author points out that, despite the unforeseen social distancing and consequent restrictions on union action, the mobilization process continued, predominantly through digital media. The article also notes that the COVID-19 pandemic has also made it possible to reinvent union action, focusing on the safety and protection of the lives of bank employees and their families.

Disputing food systems: responses of social movements to the Covid-19 pandemic

The article analyzes how rural activism in Brazil reacted to the Covid-19 pandemic. To this end, the actions of the main organizations that bring together family farmers and peasants in the country were mapped, in the first seven months of the pandemic, from March to September 2020: National Confederation of Rural Workers Agriculturists and Family Farmers (Contag), National Confederation of Workers and Workers in Family Agriculture in Brazil (Contraf-Brasil), Movement of Small Farmers (MPA) and Movement of Landless Rural Workers (MST).

Social solidarity movement to prevent the spread of COVID-19 pandemic in Indonesia

The article analyzes the way in which the COVID-19 pandemic stimulated solidarity actions in different communities. It addresses how people used new digital media to increase solidarity and spread ways to prevent the new corona virus. The article uses qualitative methodology to study social movements that contributed to this struggle. The results show that the pandemic served for people to learn how to use social media platforms, creating content, educating and raising resources.

Global alert: Policies, social and future movements in dispute during pandemic times

The book brings together articles that debate the reality of the pandemic in 28 countries from all continents, with the purpose of analyzing the multiple sociopolitical implications of the pandemic. The work offers a global look at the current crisis and the contemporary world, the way in which inequalities were worsened and the different forms of social control developed. In addition, it highlights solidarity initiatives, social movements and ways to renew critical thinking and possible world forms.

The social impacts of Covid-19 in Brazil: vulnerable populations and responses to the pandemic

The book proposes a reflection on the effects of the pandemic beyond the health dimension, also considering different social markers, such as race, gender, social class, sexuality, territories and economic dynamics. The volume brings together researchers and specialists, who present diversified contributions and who focus, with special attention, on vulnerable populations in Brazil in the face of the global emergency.

COVID-19's political challenges in Latin America

The book offers a collection of articles that analyze the political impact and responses of Latin American governments to the COVID-19 pandemic in eight countries. In general, the texts address how denialism and populism affected responses to the new coronavirus pandemic and assess the effectiveness of strategies adopted by different governments to deal with the health crisis.

Mutual support in times of crisis. Citizen solidarity during the COVID-19 pandemic

The Covid-19 pandemic has further exposed humanity's vulnerabilities, while accentuating pre-existing inequalities. However, it also highlighted its strengths, not just in terms of the vaccines created in record time (albeit terribly unevenly distributed), but also in terms of highlighting the importance of health systems. The SOLIVID initiative, made up of 34 research groups from Latin America and Europe, was created in April 2020 as a metadata system of international solidarity actions that emerged in the context of the pandemic. In this book, published in collaboration with the Autonomous University of Barcelona, ​​43 authors seek to study and disseminate these collective solidarity actions, providing elements of debate and resources for a panoramic analysis.

Covid-19 and the potential consequences for social stability

The authors argue that the pandemic arrived at a time of social unrest and that, despite all the psychosocial problems it can cause later, there is a scenario that allows for an increase in the level of social conflict, especially given the way in which the pandemic was carried out. conducted in some places. Such a phenomenon was observed in cases such as the bubonic plague, which was “cooking” social unrest for a few years. The authors point out that, historically, pandemics and epidemics are related to the increase in racial prejudice and against poor people. Including, reflecting on the production of policies that discriminate and oppress this population.  

Popular health surveillance in traditional fishing communities and ecology of knowledge in the fight against COVID-19

Faced with the public health emergency of international importance caused by COVID-19, artisanal fisheries workers, in dialogue with Brazilian leaders and academics, created, in March 2020, an Observatory on the impacts of this pandemic on fishing communities. The article analyzes the experience of popular surveillance of the health of fishermen through daily bulletins produced at the Observatory.

Political-cultural movements and actions in Brazil in times of the Covid-19 pandemic

The article offers an analysis of the mobilizations carried out by the cultural sector to guarantee the subsistence of those people who survive in the cultural field during the pandemic. The cultural sector was one of the most affected, as, in addition to being the first to be closed, it was the last to reopen. Thus, workers in the area were unable to work for a considerable time. The authors show the importance of independent artists' movements by implementing actions and programs that address their craft. Despite being a sector that moves a lot of resources in the country, culture suffers from a cycle of disengagement of the State with culture.

Activism in the time of COVID-19

The article addresses the ways in which the pandemic may have affected the ways of reactions to social injustices. For the authors, social isolation, the pandemic context and social media interactions favor the spread of negative emotions. Such emotions are activated when a scenario of social injustice is observed, which motivates participation in protests, despite the risks posed by the pandemic. In addition, the authors discuss how separatism has been encouraged in some countries, due to the absence of effective national leadership.

Responses of feminist social movements to the COVID-19 pandemic: preliminary research notes in social psychology

The article analyzes the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on working class women, mostly black women. The article addresses the psychosocial responses developed by a group of women organized in a feminist social movement in the city of São Paulo (SP). The author points out the weight of work and emotional overload, but also care and solidarity relationships that point to resistance to the current hegemonic policy and to horizons of social transformation.

Street protests in times of COVID-19: adjusting tactics and marching 'as usual'

The article presents the forms of adaptation adopted by protests carried out “offline” during the pandemic. Such protests needed to adapt their tactics or use innovative tools from containment repertoires. The article offers examples of protests that have taken place since March 2020, divided into four categories: 1) tactics adjusted to the limitations of the pandemic; 2) tactics that are a consequence of limitations; 3) tactics related to opposition to the lockdown; 4) tactics that use pandemic frameworks.

Action of social movements and entities in the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil: Care for the elderly in Long Stay Institutions

The article aims to analyze the content of documents proposed by social movements and class entities to guide care in Long Stay Institutions for the Elderly (ILPI) during the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil. The study shows how social movements and entities performed well in supporting ILPIs in Brazil, through the dissemination of documents that contributed to guide care for institutionalized elderly people in a situation of vulnerability.

#Caremongering: A community-led social movement to address health and social needs during COVID-19

The main objective of the article is to examine the growth of #Caremongering in Canada. The movement began with the Covid-19 restrictions on social distancing, when Canadian communities created a social movement on Facebook with the aim of helping vulnerable individuals in their communities. The article analyzes the main ways in which the groups were used and the differences in uses, activities and number of members.

Disinformed social movements: A large-scale mapping of conspiracy narratives as online harms during the COVID-19 pandemic

The article addresses the emergence of social movements that spread anti-science and conspiracy narratives based on disinformation. It points out the damage that misinformation in public health causes by promoting doubts in people about vaccination. The authors understand conspiracy narratives as a combination of disinformation, misinformation and rumours, which are effective in making people believe in post-truth or in forming uninformed social movements.

An Indigenous self-determination social movement response to COVID-19

The study article analyzes the Covid-19 pandemic for the Māori in New Zealand. In this case, although from the beginning of the pandemic, the Maori had more cases of mortality than the non-Maori, over time this proportion reversed. In addition, the pandemic was also a moment that accelerated the self-determination movement of indigenous peoples in the country, the article addresses the forms of manifestation observed in the south island of New Zealand.

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