Psychology and psychosocial aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil:

Inequalities, Precariousness of life and Necropolitics

Abstract

The objective is to analyze psychosocial aspects involved in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil, taking the political management of this phenomenon, with particular attention to actions and omissions of the federal executive, as an analyzer of the relationship between unequal precariousness of life and necropolitics in the country. The debates of Judith Butler on precarious lives are articulated, readings of the black feminine about the intersection of oppression and Achille Mbembe on policies of mortification today, with discussions of Social Psychology in its analysis of contemporary phenomena. Methodologically, journalistic news about the pandemic is taken as materialities that illustrate the problematization about the intersectional precariousness of lives considered superfluous and the reproduction of ways of making / letting them die. It is argued that the disparities accentuated by the pandemic crisis and the psychosocial production of indifference in the face of the sacrificial scenario correlated to necroliberal rationality call Psychology to problematize/ deconstruct current forms of life.