Abstract

NATERAS-GONZALEZ, Martha Elisa. Violence and Sanitary Contingence Due to COVID-19 as an Apology of the Permanent State of Emergency in Mexico. Opin. jurid. [online]. 2020, vol.19, n.spe40, pp.513-532.  Epub Sep 22, 2021. ISSN 1692-2530.  https://doi.org/10.22395/ojum.v19n40a24.

Historically, when a crisis appears and permeates the 'normal' state of things, it generates an inevitable reflection and questions the changes generated by that trance, mostly whether or not those adjustments are authoritarian. These emergent processes generate uncertainties, thus emerging a myriad of reading among society (even contradictory ones) of the sense of the social, economic and political orders as a result of the conjuncture. For that reason, the main objective of this article is to examine the existing relation between violence in Mexico, the sanitary contingence of the COVID-19 and the establishment of emergency rules for explaining how the hegemonic power of the Mexican State works over the individuals. Attending this goal, this work performed a theoretical analysis through the concepts of state of emergency, biopolitics and biopower to explain, from a critical perspective, the use of the institutional discourse that justifies the state of emergency through the historical and conjunctural violence generated by the OVID-19 confining. The main finding of this text is that biopolitics, as a discursive mechanism inscribed within the judicial framework, formalizes the functions and actions of the Mexican armed forces for keeping the security and order amidst the violence and the pandemic; and, through biopower, it justifies is police function as an effective method for facing them. Nonetheless, the indiscriminate use of these emergency rules might vanish the line between the legal and the illegal.

Keywords : security; state of emergency; sanitary contingence; biopolitics; biopower.

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