Global Fear
The coronavirus pandemic certainly opens a new class of global fear. It is not like that anxieties, panics and global ...
BRaS promotes Brazilian social sciences during the Covid-19 pandemic
The Brazilian Research Studies Center, in an effort to publicize the work done by researchers and research institutes, published in ...
Disability, Coronavirus and Life-and-Death Policies
The coronavirus pandemic, among explicit policies and ordinary practices, exposes life-and-death decisions that require thoughts about possible outcomes. The effects ...
Lives, economy, and emergency
In recent years in Social Sciences, particularly in anthropology, an ethnographic critique of the concept of life has been gaining ...
Deterritorialization without limits – Geographic reflections in times of pandemic (I)
Some mantras of planetary globalism dominant until now were: move, travel, accelerate, grow, expand, extract (resources), consume, privatize, do flexible ...
Temples in times of pandemics
In Matthew 18:20, Jesus said, “For where two or three gather in my name, there am I with them”. But ...
The vertical citizenship in Brazil: the case of Coronavirus
Partial isolation, or vertical isolation as it has been called, consists essentially in only removing from social relations the groups ...
The COVID-19 pandemic and women
Despite the many changes that have occurred, we all know how to point out and understand the established gender roles, ...
The Social Sciences and Collective Health in the face of the current epidemic of ignorance, irresponsibility, and bad faith
One of the oldest and most traditional social sciences fields is the analysis of health and disease processes and the ...
Beautiful Deaths, Good Deaths, Evil Deaths, and Covid-19
On one of my last visits to the apartment of my doctoral supervisor, the Africanist anthropologist Louis-Vincent Thomas, in the ...
