The art to govern the data in times of Covid-19

Authors

  • Barbara Moraes Federal University of Rio de Janeiro

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2316-9133.v29isuplp124-134

Keywords:

Technique and politics, Practices of knowledge, Sciences of government, Anthropology of the State, Anthropology of politics

Abstract

The numbers that have been daily narrating the spread of Covid-19 in Brazil suggest some thoughts on the politics and techniques involved at the same time on governmental and scientific practices. This essay seeks to extend the issues pointed out in my master’s work on the state’s practices of knowledge to a moment when statistics have become part of our daily life through the publication of data regarding the pandemic crisis. How do the relations between Science and State stand when personalities from the world of politics produce their own narratives about public health issues? What can these data tell us about the ways of seeing and producing knowledge from the sciences of government?

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Published

2020-07-25

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Vol. 29 No. supl (2020)

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Articles and Essays

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Moraes, B. (2020). The art to govern the data in times of Covid-19. Cadernos De Campo (São Paulo, 1991), 29(supl), 124-134. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2316-9133.v29isuplp124-134

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