Resistance and pandemic through the Brazilian electronic journalistic lens

a discursive analysis

Abstract

This article presents a discursive investigation about possible emergencies of resistance practices enunciated in the discourse of Brazilian journalistic medias which circulated on the internet in April 2020. The constitutive enunciative sequences of corpus are, predominantly, of an imagery order and they were collected from electronic journalistic platforms. It was chosen for this historical excerpt because it corresponds to the beginning of the pandemic in Brazil, as well as restrictive measures of social isolation. Appealing Michel Foucault's archegenealogical discourse analysis methodology, it was sought to understand how public spaces were discursivized by these medias during the historical period extracted. Another objective was to know the conditions of possibility that allow or not the practice of resisting the pandemic discursive norm in public spaces enunciated in the journalistic medias. It was analyzed the discursive formations that pass through public spaces and that may enable condition of existence of resistance practices. It was concluded that the media discourse materializes the effects of a capillary functioning safety device, however it shows the political and economic discursive formations allowing resistance to pandemic norms by promoting the agglomeration of individuals.