Pandemic sociability?
What an urban anthropology can say about the crisis triggered by COVID-19
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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2316-9133.v29isuplp53-64Keywords:
Urban Anthropology, Sociability, Body, Pandemic, COVID-19, São Paulo CityAbstract
In the global context of the sanitary crisis, the city of São Paulo, the epicenter of the pandemic in Brazil, was also faced with the need to retain the bodies in movement, enunciating urgent restrictive measures in a general framework called quarantine. Paradoxically, apparently playful and playful perceptions of dealing with the pandemic could be observed in the intricacies of city sociability, calling our attention to the uses of some concepts and notions dear to Urban Anthropology. This text discusses, based on ethnographic examples, how this conjuncture of suffering unfolded in more labile managements in a popular symptomology, without disregarding the analytical potential of the notion of sociability when dealing with the politicization of bodies willing to operate from the scenario that shaped locally the pandemic: on the one hand, political and scientific strategies guiding public actions in the administration of the city and, on the other, the presence of dissonant anti-intellectualist and / or scientific discourse resonated by the higher spheres of power.
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