TY  - SER
AU  - Pfrimer, Matheus Hoffmann 
AU  - Jr, Ricardo Barbosa,
TI  - Brazil’s war on COVID-19: : Crisis, not conflict—Doctors, not generals
PY  - 2020///
PB  - sage
N2  - This commentary first documents the ways in which President Jair Bolsonaro’s administration has evoked securitized discursive strategies that frame Brazil’s national response to COVID-19 as a matter of defense instead of public health. We then ask: What does it mean to talk about the virus and the ways to address it through war-framings? We argue that the Bolsonaro administration has framed the COVID-19 pandemic as an extra-territorial threat in an effort to create internal stability while failing to handle the matter effectively. Such politically motivated spatial framings inhibit an effective response in Brazil and pose a severe threat to public health. Once COVID-19 becomes securitized, the response is framed by the military bureaucracy rather than public health authorities, resulting in dangerous consequences
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1177/2043820620924880
ER  -