DA REVOLTA DA VACINA AO POVO SEM VACINA CONTRA A COVID-19: REFLEXÕES SOBRE PANDEMIA, RAÇA E EXCLUSÃO SOCIAL

Abstract

Brazilian cities were not built focusing on the working class. On the contrary, the guiding basis of the great metropolises was the Eurocentric look, having as organizational myths, cities like Paris and Washington. This article is inscribed in the critical analytical framework that brings to mind the invaluable legacy of the geographer Milton Santos, the criticism of the right to the city by Henri Lefebvre, David Harvey, and also considering the contributions of Vera Telles, Eveline Trevisan, and Adchille Mbembe, regarding the importance of the concept of Necropolitics that is salutary to the theme, also bringing some observations about the sociological current of the Chicago School, as a counterpoint to its ideology about what is city. Far from exhausting the theme, the article aims to contribute to black narratives regarding the rebound of the pandemic caused by COVID-19, revisiting the past and leading us to hope for the future, based on resistance and construction of aquilombing strategies, in the face of the numerous attacks on democracy and social rights, especially since the coup of 2016. It is necessary to think that social, territorial, historical, and economic exclusion are not watertight issues, much less separate from other debates, to the extent that the serious health issue initiated in 2020 holds numerous issues that led to the fight for the vaccine, in a historical turn that marks from the Vaccine Revolt, to the fight for dignity and respect for working and peripheral populations. Living in Brazilian cities, having black skin, as is the case of both authors in this article, requires more and more reflections on the present moment without, however, asking questions about the past.