Abstract

DUARTE, André de Macedo  and  CESAR, Maria Rita de Assis. Denial of Politics and Denialism as a Policy: pandemic and democracy. Educ. Real. [online]. 2020, vol.45, n.4, e109146.  Epub Jan 04, 2021. ISSN 2175-6236.  https://doi.org/10.1590/2175-6236.

The text is developed in three complementary stages: Firstly, we discuss the strategy of denying politics, which allowed President Bolsonaro to reject democratic values ​​without definitively breaking with democracy, employed both during the presidential campaign but also during the pandemic. Secondly, we analyze the strategy of denialism as a policy, important to the understanding of the way thru which Bolsonaro undertook his management of the pandemic. Thirdly, we argue that during the pandemic both strategies were combined, thus producing socio-political phenomena that erode democracy, such as the trivialization of deaths and the naturalization of the cleavage between valuable lives, less valuable lives, and disposable lives.

Keywords : Denialism; Denial of Politics; Pandemic; Death Banalization; Crisis of Democracy.

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