Pandemic, and normativity: The Covid-19 in the decrees of Guarapuava and Irati, Parana (2020-2021)

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5007/1807-1384.2025.e108210

Keywords:

Environmental history, Biological citizenship, Disaster, Parana

Abstract

This article analyzes the COVID-19 pandemic as a socio-environmental disaster, examining the normative production of the municipalities of Guarapuava and Irati, in Paraná, between 2020 and 2021. Anchored in the Environmental History of Disasters and articulating the frameworks of Biopolitics and Biological Citizenship, the study interprets decrees and laws as devices of social regulation that reveal tensions between the State, territory, and population. The multi-scalar analysis demonstrates the strong dependence of municipalities on state guidelines, frequently resulting in the mere replication of language, marked by ambiguities and inconsistencies. The article concludes that local responses, although operating as mechanisms of biopolitical containment, were limited by fragile structures and ambiguous discourses, highlighting the challenges of local governance in the face of a global disaster and straining the limits of biological citizenship in crisis contexts.

Author Biography

Jó Klanovicz, Universidade Estadual do Oeste do Paraná

Docente do Programa de Pós-Graduação em História, Docente do Departamento de História (UNICENTRO). Doutor em História (UFSC, 2007), com pós-doutorado (Centro de Ciências Agroveterinárias da UDESC, 2008).

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Published

2025-12-30

Issue

Section

Dossiê: Imprevisível como Norma: desastres, território e a política da vulnerabilidade. Organização: Dra. Eunice Sueli Nodari; Dr. Hernani Ciro Santana; Jó Klanovicz.