Resumen de Biopolitics and (in)security in Foucault: elements for a diagnosis of the management of the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil

Daniel Verginelli Galantin, Thiago Fortes Ribas

• Faced with the criticism of the biopolitical control exercised in the COVID-19 pandemic, we defend the importance of a re-examination oftheFoucauldianreflections so that the critical diagnoses of the present is accompanied by a careful analysis of the fields of force and knowledge in which such controls occur. Bearing in mind the correlation between security mechanisms and the management of insecurities, we argue that in the management of the pandemic by the Brazilianexecutive government, the excesses of power took place more due to the lack of imposing restrictive health measures and obstacles to the control of contagion than through restrictive actions of classical individual freedoms.