Biopolítica, Liberdade e Judicialização da Prevenção da COVID-19 em Manaus: Uma Etnografia Multissituada em Tempos Perturbadores

Brazil was the first country to register cases of Covid-19 in Latin America and, with the rapid advance of community transmission, many people continue to be exposed to risks that are not only biological, but social and institutional, which gain relative specificity among the markers of inequalities in the country. Thus, this article aimed to analyze three State policies, in the context of Amazonas, aimed at preventing the infection of the new coronavirus, based on a multi-site ethnography on social networks, messaging applications and news portals between the months from March to September 2020. The categories biopolitics, freedom and judicialization were used to support reflections on control relations. The analyzes included “Operation Stay at home”, “Disk Aglomeracao - Disk 129” and the “Law on the mandatory use of masks”, and it was possible to identify specific forms of resistance, whether in the foreground or background.