Pandemic and Crisis of Democracy: Biopolitics, Neoliberalism, and Necropolitics in Bolsonaro's Brazil

ISBN-13: 9781032281612 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 200 str.

Opis

In this incisive book, André Duarte examines the health crisis resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic and the contemporary crisis of democracy.

Spis treści

Introduction  1. The image of hell: understanding Brazil’s pandemic hell under Bolsonaro  2. Biopolitics, neoliberalism, necropolitics and the crisis of democracy  3. Brazil’s pathway to hell  4. Bolsonaro’s power apparatus  5. Rethinking democracy

O autorze

André Duarte is a full professor in the Philosophy Department at the Federal University of Paraná, Brazil. His research interests include contemporary philosophy and political theory, specializing in the works of Hannah Arendt, Michel Foucault and Judith Butler, among others.