“Take care”: The managerial domination of Eduardo Leite’s government in face of the pandemic in RS

• Autor(a) principal: Soler, Pedro Schlee
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Outros Autores: Leite, Elaine da Silveira
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por; eng
• Título da fonte: Estudos de Sociologia
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.fclar.unesp.br/estudos/article/view/17519
• topic: Governo do RS; Covid-19; Dominação gestionária; Neoliberalismo; Capital simbólico; RS government; Pandemic; Covid-19; Managerial domination; Neoliberalism; Symbolic capital; Gobierno de RS; Pandemia; Covid-19; Dominación empresarial; Neoliberalismo; Capital simbólico

This paper aims to reflect on the performance of the State of Rio Grande do Sul (RS) during COVID-19 pandemic. As a methodological and analytical particularity, it pursued to understand the reproduction of neoliberal logic by the government of RS, by analyzing the livestreams, carried out by the Governor Eduardo Leite. As it was a period of health crisis, the State was at the forefront of a conjuncture of political-economic tension – critical moments (cf. BOLTANSKI; THÉVENOT, 1999) –, thus revealing moral grammars (BOLTANSKI; THEVÉNOT, 1999) that guided the governor’s management during the pandemic, pointing to the incorporation of principles that sought to emphasize efficiency (no budget waste for health), the focus on maintaining economic activities (flags policy), which characterize mechanisms of “managerial domination” (BOLTANSKI, 2013), marked by the attempt to depoliticize the pandemic and shaped by individualizing and business values.