DEATH LANDSCAPES AND COVID-19 IN THE AMERICAS: NORMATIVE RESPONSES OF THE INTER-AMERICAN COMMISSION OF HUMAN RIGHTS TOWARDS VULNERABILITY-DEATH

• Autor(a) principal: Marconi, Claudia
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Outros Autores: Miranda, Rafael de Souza Nascimento, dos Santos, Isabela Agostinelli [UNESP]
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng; por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNESP
• Texto Completo: http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/0102-167194/118; http://hdl.handle.net/11449/247475
• topic: Death Landscapes; Inter-American Commission of Human Rights; International Basic Structure; Normative Response; Vulnerability-Death Binomial

The article engages with the death landscapes of the Americas’ two largest democracies – Brazil and the United States – during the Covid-19 crisis, offering a conceptual tool entitled vulnerability-death binomial to consider the extent to which a politics of tragedy is a turning point in the ways institutional politics addresses vulnerability and death, emphasizing the work of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR). When analyzing the normative responses of IACHR, no articulation was found between vulnerability and death but, instead, a bifurcation of each. Although it reveals that there is not a normative interplay between vulnerability and death, the bifurcation does not mean a choice between binary paths. While the two democracies have raised institutional challenges, the IACHR deepened certain senses of vulnerability and a normative movement towards death: issues historically absent from the international basic structure and capable of challenging the international justice theory