GOVERNMENT NECROPOLITICS IN TIMES OF PANDEMIC

BOLSONARO’S DISCOURSE FLIRTING WITH DEATH

Authors

  • Luciano Novaes Vidon Professor de Linguística e Língua Portuguesa do Departamento de Línguas e Letras (DLL) e Professor Permanente do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Linguística (PPGEL), da Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo (UFES)
  • Aléxia Chaves Carlos Aluna do curso de Mestrado em Estudos Linguísticos, do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Linguística (PPGEL) da Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo (UFES)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.61470/cadis.v1i2.75517

Keywords:

Necropolitics, Pandemic, Political speech

Abstract

This article aligns with research on text and discourse from the perspective of the Bakhtin Circle (BAKHTIN, 2010; 2011; MEDVIÉDEV, 2012; VOLOCHÍNOV, 2013; 2017), with the aim of

understanding responsively and responsibly the production and circulation of concrete utterances on the Covid-19 pandemic by the Brazilian federal government. For the analysis of concrete enunciative materiality, from the perspective of Bakhtinian dialogism, the work used as corpus pronouncements of the president Jair Bolsonaro in the chronotope of the pandemic of the new coronavirus, seeking to identify the present ideological signs (VOLOCHÍNOV, 2017) or ideologems (MEDVIÉDEV, 2012) that reinforce the traces of necropolitics (MBEMBE, 2016). In conclusion, tried to show how the neoliberal economic ideology, on the one hand, with the anti-isolation, anti-preventive and anti-vaccine negationist ideologies, on the other hand, composed a necropolitical discourse and practice on the part of the Brazilian government, contributing, thus, to the health tragedy we are experiencing, especially in the years 2020 to 2022.

Author Biography

Luciano Novaes Vidon, Professor de Linguística e Língua Portuguesa do Departamento de Línguas e Letras (DLL) e Professor Permanente do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Linguística (PPGEL), da Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo (UFES)

Professor de Linguística e Língua Portuguesa do Departamento de Línguas e Letras (DLL) e Professor Permanente do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Linguística (PPGEL), da Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo (UFES). Coordenador do Grupo de Estudos Bakhtinianos (GEBAKH), da UFES.

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Published

2026-07-15

How to Cite

Vidon, L. N., & Carlos, A. C. (2026). GOVERNMENT NECROPOLITICS IN TIMES OF PANDEMIC: BOLSONARO’S DISCOURSE FLIRTING WITH DEATH. Cadernos Discursivos, 1(2), 71–89. https://doi.org/10.61470/cadis.v1i2.75517

Issue

Vol. 1 No. 2 (2023): Dossiê Ler os discursos sobre o evento pandêmico: discursividades culturais, políticas, sanitárias

Section

Artigos