“EL BARRIO NUNCA SE QUEDA CALLADO”1 CONTROL SOCIAL, PRÁCTICAS DISCRIMINATORIAS Y PROCESOS DE DEMANDA EN CONTEXTO DE PANDEMIA POR COVID-19

Abstract

: As a result of the coronavirus pandemic, in march 2020 the
Argentinian National Government issued a Necessity and Urgency Decree
(DNU) on international agencies’ recommendations like the World Health
Organization (WHO). This decree applied certain measures between
March and November from that year, such as social isolation, suspicious
and confirmed cases identification, transit restrictions and limited use
of public transportation. From the ethnographic work made through
online encounters with residents of a Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires
vulnerable neighborhood, we set out to analyze the application of diverse
social control devices established by state agencies, and its intrinsic meanings,
strategies and demands caused in the citizenship. We will also document,
investigate and analyze the speeches reproduced in society, the media
and public demonstrations of state agencies, supporting a particular
social construction of the coronavirus disease, and its expression across
discriminatory and stigmatizing practices.