A country stuck at the crossroads of history
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https://doi.org/10.29397/reciis.v19i4.5481Keywords:
Necropolitics, Denialism, Sanitary reform, Structural racism, Community associativismAbstract
This note examines Brazil in 2025 amid the collapse of a global system in crisis, marked by the rise of denialism, political violence, and persistent structural racism. The combination of neoliberalism, necropolitics, and penal populism deepens inequalities, blocks reforms, and fuels a “drive toward cruelty” expressed in massacres, mass incarceration, and the precarization of life. Despite this scenario, the text highlights the power of community practices, especially in “favelas”, as forms of care, resistance, and creation of egalitarian bonds with clinical and political strength. Local experiments supported by social movements, universities, and the sanitary reform point to ways of rebuilding rights, strengthening the Unified Health System, and shaping a democratic project centered on life. The leadership of women and of anti-racist collectives signals possibilities for territorial and social transformation in the face of contemporary catastrophes.
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