Covid-19 pandemic: a geopolitical analysis

Abstract

From a critical re-elaboration of the Gramsci’s
analytical categories of war of position and
war of movement, in an inter-scale perspective,
the different power structures and how they
position themselves in the face of the global
health crisis in search of hegemony are analyzed.
Such perspectives point to the covid-19 pandemic
as a geopolitical issue and highlight how
the strategies of supra-state bodies (WTO,
WHO, ILO), States and sectoral economic
groups materialize as territorial determinations
developed over a fragmented civil society,
particularly in the most vulnerable strata
(indigenous peoples, peasants and black
communities). These territorial determinations
express a set of power relations for the realization
of the form of value.