Long-standing effects of covid-19 pandemic o vulnerable families in Brazil: reflexions about inequalities, public polices and everyday.

• Grant number: 24/13592-8
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: September 01, 2024
• End date: August 31, 2025
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Anthropology - Urban Anthropology
• Principal Investigator: Taniele Cristina Rui
• Grantee: Nathaly Cristine Euzebio Silva
• Host Institution: Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas (IFCH). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil
• Associated research grant: 22/03051-4 - Long-standing effects of COVID-19 pandemic on vulnerable families in Brazil: reflexions about inequalities, public policies and everyday, AP.PNGP.PI

Abstract

The proposed research aims to understand the lasting effects of the covid-19 pandemic on the lives of vulnerable urban families living in five Brazilian cities, in four states of the federation: Campinas (SP), Sao Paulo (SP), Rio de Janeiro (RJ), Altamira (PA), Belém (PA) and Ariquemes (RO). The project will resume the research "Implementation of COVID-19 related policies for household inequalities across five countries", coordinated by Profs. Drs. Clara Han and Veena Das, both from the Department of Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University (USA). The research that underpins the propositions presented here began in August 2020 and documented the daily lives of families in vulnerable situations until February 2022 - especially in relation to socioeconomic status, health, housing and access to public services. The present investigation will use the same research methodology and will keep the same team monitoring the same households, with the expectation of expanding the number investigated. However, we are proposing to resume this monitoring and broaden the scope of the investigation temporally, seeking to understand the lasting dimensions of the pandemic in the lives of vulnerable families, especially in terms of its effects on daily life. The aim is to produce analyses on the problems that emerged during the COVID-19 pandemic that will extend to the post-pandemic situation and how low-income populations have been dealing with these problems. Therefore, the aim is to understand, from an ethnographic and procedural point of view, how the new policies and legal arrangements, as well as the new social dynamics imposed by the pandemic - and possibly also by the post-pandemic, have affected and will affect the lives of families in situations of poverty, who deal day-to-day with precarious allocations in the labor market, scarce infrastructure networks (water, electricity, basic sanitation), with cases of illness and disability aggravated by poverty, and also with various situations of violence, from state actors and criminals. We seek to understand how these transformations, when interacting with already existing social inequalities, modulate the daily lives of poor families in Brazil. This approach will allow us to deepen and qualify themes related to recovery and resilience in the context of the post-pandemic and to analyze their capillarity in concrete lives.