ABSTRACT

We aim to produce a counter account regarding a discursive crisis in media outlets that, since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic in Brazil, already pointed to the intersection of inequalities with a profound impact on vulnerable and marginalised groups. We draw upon the Sociologies of Absences and Emergences and intersectionality to challenge the truth regime associated with hegemonic accounts by “accounting for” news to contrast hegemonic discourse with a hidden side of socio-political reality. Methodologically, we retrieved 235 news – from March 11th to April 16th, 2020 – from seven Brazilian media vehicles to reveal, through thematic analysis, a discursive crisis with four opposing quadrants. We argue that alternative media had a critical role in highlighting the impacts of what we understand as necropolitical policies by (i) exposing the suffering of those doomed to non-existence in the hegemonic discourse; (ii) amplifying voices undertaken by vulnerable and marginalised people and activities of social groups aiming to resist. Exploring the discursive crisis allowed us to amplify the (re)emergence attempts that fought necropolitics with implications for rethinking the role of accounting in unequal contexts. In conclusion, our counter account revealed how historical inequalities and the growth of neoliberal conservatism sustained a flagrant loss of rights during the pandemic as a gendered and racialised crisis in Brazil. We contribute to the existing literature by connecting accounting’s potential of communicating/constructing realities and the need for alternative accounts based on the Sociologies of Absences and Emergences.

摘要

我们的目标是对媒体的话语危机进行反述，自从巴西 Covid-19 大流行开始以来，媒体已经指出不平等的交叉点对弱势和边缘化群体产生了深远影响。我们利用缺席和出现的社会学以及交叉性，通过“解释”新闻来挑战与霸权账户相关的真相制度，将霸权话语与社会政治现实的隐藏面进行对比。从方法上讲，我们从 2020 年 3 月 11 日到 4 月 16 日从七家巴西媒体工具中检索了 235 条新闻，通过主题分析揭示了具有四个对立象限的话语危机。我们认为，替代媒体在强调我们所理解的死灵政治政策的影响方面发挥着关键作用，方法是：(i) 揭露那些注定在霸权话语中不存在的人的苦难；(ii) 扩大弱势和边缘化人群的声音以及旨在抵抗的社会团体的活动。探索话语危机使我们能够扩大（重新）出现的与死灵政治作斗争的尝试，并对重新思考会计在不平等环境中的作用产生影响。总之，我们的反账户揭示了历史上的不平等和新自由主义保守主义的发展如何在大流行期间导致巴西的性别和种族化危机公然丧失权利。