In addition to powerful reflections on the constitution of the popular education field in health in Brazil, reading José Ivo Pedrosa’s text triggered questions about collective life in the context of retreating social rights and a scenario of perverse political, economic and cultural globalization.
Santos1 highlights the vulnerabilizing character of the neo(ultra)liberal offensive led by transnational groups, analyzing inequalities between hemispheres, regions, and territories. From the biopolitics in the control of collective and individual bodies2, long strides are taken towards more radical expropriation, the necropolitics, a concept systematized by Mbembe3.
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