Unstable Peace

Braga, Camila de Macedo; Romaniuk, Scott N.

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“…On this, several authors engaging with different arenas of social sciences have stressed the need to include political and conflictual aspects in the analysis of resilience, moving away from more traditional ecological approaches (Barrios, 2016;Cretney, 2014;Olsson et al, 2015;Van Breda, 2018). This is particularly relevant in the case of resilience policies, which are often detached from important discussion around political economy, colonialism, and post-coloniality (Barrios, 2016), leading to practices and discourses that reinforce neoliberal policies by focusing on the individual level and self-sufficiency (Braga, 2020;MacKinnon and Derickson, 2012;Van Breda, 2018;Walker and Cooper, 2011). Speaking from the point of view of social work, Van Breda (2018: 7) observes that, "if the individual is responsible for her or his own well-being, the state is free to disregard adverse social systems and dynamics, such as poverty, racism, lack of access to resources and poor-quality education.…”

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Questioning Resilience: An Examination of the Effects of and Responses to the Covid-19 Pandemic in the Peripheries of Brazil

Maschietto

Tomesani

2023

Journal of Politics in Latin America

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In this article, we assess the effects of and responses to the Covid-19 pandemic in the Brazilian peripheries by relying on resilience theory and the experiences of peripheral actors during the first year of the pandemic. We consider these experiences to examine whether the initial responses to the crisis had the potential to bring about long-term positive change. We rely on thematic analysis of 80 interviews with leaders of grassroots organizations of different nature all over the country between October 2020 and January 2021. We argue that we cannot speak of resilience and system change unless we engage with the voices of those most affected by adversity. While in its first year the pandemic brought important traces of structural violence to the surface, providing an opportunity for structural change, peripheral views at that moment cast doubts about the extent to which those changes could lead to long-term structural changes.

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