The Necropolitics Debate in Pandemic Times

Debate mediated by the Board of Management of the XVI Plenary of CRP SP, Ione Xavier, on April 5, 2020, with the participation of psychologist Carolina Duarte, who is part of the Brazilian Association of Social Psychology (ABRAPSO), and psychologists Leandro Fonseca, professor of the Psychology course at the University of Sorocaba, and Marcio Farias, member of the Work and Social Action Studies Center (NUTAS – PUC-SP). The live debated the concept of necropolitics, coined in 2003 by Cameroonian philosopher Achille Mbembe, which discusses how governments decide who will live and who will die and how they will live and die. Access here .