La necropolítica y el genocidio del pueblo yanomami en el escenario pandémico del COVID-19

Abstract

This work aims to problematize the impacts of illegal mining on Yanomami lands during the covid-19 pandemic. The proposed research aligns with a legal-social methodological approach and the type of research selected, as proposed by the classification of Gustin, Dias and Nicácio, is of a legal-exploratory nature, emphasizing the characteristics, perceptions and descriptions of fundamental rights conflicts in the current scenario, driven by the covid-19 pandemic. An analysis of the limitations and implications of the permanent state of exception to which some modern democracies are subjected to and their relationship with the concepts of necropolitics and necropower is thus developed. The work denounces a problem that appeared in newspapers around the world in January 2023, revealing the vulnerability faced by the Yanomami peoples in the Amazon and reveals the relationship between the state of emergency and illegal mining activities in the context of a pandemic, denouncing a scenario of genocide in traditional Brazilian communities.