Crossed pandemics: Racism, police violence, and Covid-19 in Brazil and the United States

IF 3.2 1区社会学 Q1 INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

Review of International Studies Pub Date : 2023-07-13 DOI:10.1017/S0260210523000219

Marta Fernández, Pedro Paulo dos Santos Silva

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Abstract The article aims to answer the following question: how is it possible that in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic, as a series of daily activities were suspended in the name of preserving life, police violence has not only continued but worsened in the United States and in Brazil? We argue that racism structures social relations both in the United States and in Brazil, functioning as an essential activity of states that remain involved in the production of different types of physical and symbolic death even amidst the Covid-19 pandemic. Contrary to mainstream International Relations, which narrates its central categories – such as the state – as neutral and non-racialised, we will draw attention to the racial origin of the state and its institutions, such as the police. This article aims to look at these two contexts, Brazil and the United States, in a crossed way. This analysis is only possible because, despite the heterogeneity of the two scenarios, we understand that racism is constitutive of global order and of the institutions that sustain its unfair and unequal character. Video Abstract

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交叉流行病：巴西和美国的种族主义、警察暴力和新冠肺炎

摘要本文旨在回答以下问题：在新冠肺炎大流行的背景下，由于以保护生命的名义暂停了一系列日常活动，美国和巴西的警察暴力不仅持续而且恶化，这怎么可能呢？我们认为，种族主义构成了美国和巴西的社会关系，是即使在新冠肺炎大流行期间仍参与产生不同类型身体和象征性死亡的国家的一项基本活动。主流国际关系将其核心类别（如国家）描述为中立和非种族化，与此相反，我们将提请注意国家及其机构（如警察）的种族起源。本文旨在以交叉的方式看待巴西和美国这两个背景。这一分析之所以可能，是因为尽管这两种情况各不相同，但我们明白种族主义是全球秩序和维持其不公平和不平等特征的制度的组成部分。视频摘要

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