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 Reconexão Periferias project of the Perseu Abramo Foundation, includes several testimonies from people who lived the pandemic in Brazilian peripheries . The main objective of the initiative is to create a memorial that portrays the difficulties of […]
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. Image: Brasil de Fato
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 of police operations in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro in March this year, […]
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 […]
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, in an autoethnographic perspective, in dialogue with the theoretical-critical contribution that highlights the field of studies of the fat body, the movement […]
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 the social networks and news linked in the media of eleven children from different countries (Brazil, United States, […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 absences to understand the […]
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 […]
