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18 - 19 November 2020
What are our lives worth to
a neoliberal government?
Capitalism, War and Biopolitics in the
Pandemic Era
LOCATION
VIRTUAL MEETING
CONVENORS
Dr Jean-François
Deluchey
LE STUDIUM / MARIE SKŁODOWSKA-
CURIE RESEARCH FELLOW
FROM Federal University Of Pará-BR
IN RESIDENCE AT Cultural and Discursive
Interactions (ICD) / University of Tours - FR
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Sophie Gabillet, General Secretary
Dr Aurélien Montagu, Scientific Relations Manager
Maurine Villiers, Events Projects Officer
LE STUDIUM Loire Valley Institute for Advanced Studies • Région Centre-Val de Loire • FR
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Era" is the 111th in a series started at the end of 2010 listed at the end of this
booklet.
We thank you for your participation and wish you an interesting and
intellectually stimulating conference. Also, we hope that scientific exchanges
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Yves-Michel GINOT
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INTRODUCTION
Que valent nos vies pour un gouvernement néolibéral ? Capitalisme, Guerre et
Biopolitique dans l’ère pandémique
Que valent nos vies pour un gouvernement néolibéral ? Comme nous l’a enseigné
Michel Foucault, le néolibéralisme est un « art de gouverner ». Fondé sur le « régime
de vérité » du marché, cette gouvernementalité nous incite à normaliser et moraliser
nos vies et nos actions pour les consacrer à l’accumulation d’un capital (économique,
social, culturel, symbolique). Le néolibéralisme nous a imposé une « raison du monde
» biopolitique qui, par les logiques d’un utilitarisme radical fondées sur la compétition,
la responsabilité individuelle, les inégalités économiques et l’empire universel de la
valeur, n’hésite pas à mettre en balance des vies humaines et des opportunités de
profit. Dans l’ordre néolibéral, la question de la valeur de la vie humaine se posait
déjà avant la pandémie du Covid-19 ; elle se pose aujourd’hui avec d’autant plus
d’acuité. Plus récemment, les gouvernements néolibéraux ont volontiers recouru à des
programmes politiques néo-conservateurs autoritaires qui promeuvent une politique
de destruction des Communs assortie d’une politique de mort (nécropolitique) eu
égard aux populations ou groupes sociaux jugés inutiles ou excédentaires dans le projet
néolibéral, normalisateur et moral. C’est pourquoi nous assistons aujourd’hui, dans
le champ politique, à des affrontements qui opposent radicalement les identités, les
nations, les religions, et les modes de vie. Ces affrontements mettent en scène une
véritable « guerre civile mondiale », dont la violence est ressentie partout et par tous, et
dans le cadre de laquelle les groupes hégémoniques proposent que soient neutralisées
ou éliminées les vies de ceux et celles qui constituent des obstacles pour la mise en
œuvre de leur projet politique. L’objectif de ce colloque scientifique est donc de mettre
en perspective des réflexions interdisciplinaires critiques sur le problème de la valeur
de l’être humain dans un ordre capitaliste néolibéral et bio-nécro-politique.
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What are our lives worth to a neoliberal government? Capitalism, War and Biopolitics
in the Pandemic Era.
As Michel Foucault taught us, neoliberalism is an "art of governing". Based on the
"regime of truth " of the market, this governmentality normalizes and moralizes
subjectivities under the horizon of capital accumulation (economic, social, cultural,
symbolic). Neoliberalism has shaped a biopolitical "way of the world" which, through
the logic of a radical utilitarianism based on competition, individual responsibility,
economic inequalities and the universal empire of value, downgrade the value of human
lives in favor of profit opportunities. In the neoliberal order, the value of human life has
always been a critical issue; with the COVID-19 pandemics, this issue is even more
relevant and needs to be addressed urgently. More recently, neoliberal governments
have deployed authoritarian neoconservative political agendas that promote a policy of
destruction of the Commons, that is also combined with a policy of death (necropolitics)
towards the populations or social groups considered as useless (or surplus) under
the neoliberal processes of normalization and moralization. This is the reason why
we are witnessing today, in the political field, clashes that radically oppose identities,
nationalities, religions, and ways of life. These clashes embody a somehow "global civil
war", where violence is felt everywhere and by everyone, and where hegemonic groups
intend to neutralize the lives of those who represent obstacles for the implementation
of their political agenda. The aim of this scientific colloquium is therefore to put into
perspective critical interdisciplinary reflections on the issue of the value of the human
being under a neoliberal and bio-necro-political capitalist order.
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PROGRAMME
WEDNESDAY 18TH NOVEMBER 2020
09:00 Welcome and introduction to the conference
Sophie Gabillet: General Secretary, LE STUDIUM, Loire Valley Institute for Advanced Studies -
France
Dr Alain Bideau: Director, UFR Lettres et Langues, University of Tours - France
Prof. François-Olivier Touati: Dean, UFR Arts et Sciences Humaines, University of Tours -
France
Prof. Elisabeth Gavoille: Director, ICD Research Unit, University of Tours - France
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Prof. Christian Laval
Néolibéralisme: une nouvelle guerre civile mondiale ? (Neoliberalism: a new global civil war?)
16:30 Break
Moderator: Prof. Juliette Grange (Cultural and Discursive Interactions (ICD) / University
of Tours - FR)
Dr Alfredo Gomez-Muller
Valeur humaine et valeur marchande dans le débat sur le « bon gouvernement » des Incas,
au siècle des Lumières en France (Human value and market value in the debate on the "good
government" of the Incas in the Enlightenment in France)
Dr Pascale Gillot
L'effacement contemporain de la césure anthropologique : naturalisation de l'humain
et occultation du social dans l'ordre néo-libéral (The contemporary obliteration of the
anthropological caesura: naturalization of the human and occultation of the social in the
neoliberal order)
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Dr Haud Guéguen & Prof. Massimiliano Nicoli
Reconnaissance de la vie humaine en régime néolibéral (): Recognition of human life in a
neo-liberal regime)
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TABLE OF
CONTENTS
CONVENORS
Dr Jean-François Deluchey............................................................................................14
L’extermination des jeunes Noirs au Brésil : une manifestation cruelle du nécro-gou-
vernement néolibéral
SPEAKERS
Prof. Jorge Cagiao y Conde............................................................................................16
La gauche face à la mondialisation et à la question nationale
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Dr Pascale Gillot .............................................................................................................. 20
L'effacement contemporain de la césure anthropologique : naturalisation de l'humain
et occultation du social dans l'ordre néolibéral
Dr Haud Guéguen ........................................................................................................... 23
De la reconnaissance des vies humaines en régime néolibéral
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CONVENORS
Dr Jean-François Deluchey
LE STUDIUM Research Fellow
Institutions : Interactions Culturelles et Discursives (ICD),
Université de Tours, France / l’Université fédérale du Pará (UFPA),
Brésil
The objective of this conference is to reflect on the reasons for the extermination of the lives of poor
black youth in Brazil (particularly in the Amazon) and on the relationship we can observe between this
social phenomenon and the neo-liberal mode of governmentality, coloniality regimes, race and division
of labour
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Prof. Nathalie Anna Champroux
Université de Tours / laboratoire ICD (Interactions culturelles et
discursives) EA 6297
Nathalie Anna Champroux est Professeure en Études anglophones à l’Université de Tours et membre de
l’EA 6297 - Interactions culturelles et discursives (ICD). Ses recherches portent sur la politique monétaire
britannique. Après une thèse de doctorat sur les relations entre le Royaume-Uni et le Système monétaire
européen de 1979 à 1997, ses analyses se sont étendues à la position des gouvernements britanniques
vis-à-vis de la construction monnaie européenne depuis 1948. Plus généralement, elle s’intéresse à
la Stratégie financière à moyen terme du début des années 1980, à la politique de ciblage direct de
l’inflation suivie depuis 1992 et à la gestion monétaire des crises de 2008 et 2020, en perspective
comparative avec les situations États-Uniennes et européennes.
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SPEAKERS
Prof. Jorge Cagiao y Conde
nteractions Culturelles et Discursives (ICD) / Université de Tours
Jorge Cagiao y Conde est Maître de conférences HDR à l’Université de Tours, où il est responsable de
la double licence Droit-Langues. Il a fait ses études de droit en Espagne, puis un doctorat en études
hispaniques en France, à Tours, sur les discours fédéralistes dans l’Espagne du XIXe siècle. Son travail de
recherche porte sur le fédéralisme, le nationalisme et le droit à l’autodétermination des peuples, sujets
sur lesquels il a publié et dirigé plusieurs ouvrages ces dernières années.
The left parties and movements seem to have accepted the idea that globalization means in some
extent the end of the classical nation-state as the “natural” framework for democracy. My aim in this
talk is to show how national studies enlighten us about the left approach to the well-known trilemma
“globalization/Nation-state/democracy”.
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Dr Bárbara Lou
Le Studium / Interactions Culturelles et Discursives (ICD),
Université de Tours, France / l’Université fédérale du Pará (UFPA),
Brésil
Docteure en sciences politiques du IUPERJ/IESP de Rio de Janeiro (Brésil), elle est aujourd’hui
Professeure-assistante à l'Université fédérale du Pará - UFPA. Elle est également membre du groupe
international de recherche GENA (Groupe d’Études sur le Néolibéralisme et Alternatives) et post-
doctorante au laboratoire SOPHIAPOL (Université de Paris Nanterre). Ses recherches actuelles portent
sur la théorie politique contemporaine et sur la sociologie politique, en particulier sur les effets socio-
politiques du néolibéralisme, sur les modes de catégorisation sociale et de représentation politique et
sur la judiciarisation des processus politiques.
Law as a weapon of war or “Lawfare” can be defined as a strategic use to create effects similar
to those traditionally sought in conventional military actions, motivated by the desire to weaken or
destroy opponents. Judicial procedures make it possible to circumvent the political risk of "popular
sovereignty".
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Prof. Pierre Dardot
Laboratoire Sophiapol, Université de Paris Nanterre
36 boulevard Beaumarchais
75011 Paris
Coauteur avec Christian Laval des ouvrages suivants : Sauver Marx ? (La Découverte, 2007), La Nouvelle
Raison du monde (La Découverte (2009), Marx, prénom : Karl (Gallimard, 2012), Commun (La Décou-
verte, 2014), Ce cauchemar qui n’en finit pas (La Découverte, 2016), L’ombre d’Octobre (Lux, 2017),
Dominer (La Découverte, 2020).
The term "authoritarian liberalism" has nowadays been used to characterise neoliberalism itself.
Neoliberalism would thus only be distinguished from liberalism by its political authoritarianism. In
reality, it owes its originality to the combination of a strong state and a market constitutionalism.
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Prof. Silvia Federici
Silvia Federici (née en 1942 à Parme en Italie) est une universitaire américaine, enseignante et mili-
tante féministe radicale. Elle est professeure émérite et chercheuse à l'Université Hofstra à New York.
Elle est notamment l’auteure de Caliban et la sorcière (Entremonde, 2014), Le capitalisme patriarcal (la
Fabrique, 2019) et Par-delà les frontières du corps (éditions divergences, 2020).
Pour Silvia Federici, les différentes formes de la globalisation capitaliste néolibérale s'unissent dans
une attaque frontale contre les forces du travail reproductif et le pouvoir des femmes. Ce sont ces mêmes
forces qui s’expriment dans la violence pratiquée contre les femmes, dans le remembrement agraire et
la privatisation des terres paysannes, dans les actions de la Banque mondiale, dans la destruction des
forêts et de la vie communautaire, ainsi que dans la perte des droits et des garanties des travailleurs
dans les centres urbains. C’est de cette guerre du Capitalisme contre les femmes et le travail reproductif
dont Silvia Federici propose de débattre dans sa conférence
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Dr Pascale Gillot
Université de Tours, UFR Arts et Sciences humaines
Pascale Gillot, ancienne élève de l'Ecole normale supérieure, est agrégée et docteur en philosophie.
Elle est titulaire de l'Habilitation à diriger des recherches en philosophie depuis 2018, et Maître
de conférences en philosophie à l'Université de Tours depuis 2015. Ses recherches en philosophie
portent sur les différents modèles de l'esprit et de la subjectivité, de la période moderne à la période
contemporaine. Elle a notramment publié L'esprit. Figures classiques et contemporaines (Paris, CNRS
Editions, 2007), Althusser et la psychanalyse (Paris, PUF, “Philosophies”, 2009), Le concept, le sujet, la
science. Cavaillès, Canguilhem, Foucault (avec Pierre Cassou-Noguès, Paris, Vrin, 2009), Foucault/
Wittgenstein : subjectivité, politique, éthique (avec Daniele Lorenzini, Paris, CNRS Editions, 2016), et La
question du sujet. Descartes et Wittgenstein (Paris, CNRS Editions, 2020).
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Prof. Dr Alfredo Gomez-Muller
Interactions Culturelles et Discursives (ICD) / Université de Tours
In the 18th century the stories about the "good government" of the Incas are an important cultural
reference that will contribute to the renewal of political thought in Europe. Such stories give rise to
an implicit "controversy" in which the valorization or devalorization of the Inca model of distributive
justice is correlated with the understanding of the human as a value or as a non-value subordinated to
the market value.
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Prof. Juliette Grange
Interactions Culturelles et Discursives (ICD) / Université de Tours
Juliette Grange est agrégée de philosophie, Docteur d’État et Professeur à l’Université de Tours
(philosophie moderne et contemporaine), et chercheur à l’ICD. Elle est spécialiste de la pensée française
du XIXe siècle et a consacré sa thèse à Auguste Comte sous la direction de M. Serres. Elle s’intéresse à
l’articulation entre sciences, techniques et politique, au mouvement de sécularisation et à l’apparition
des sciences humaines. Elle a publié un essai sur l'idée républicaine : L'Idée de république, Agora Pocket,
2008 (réédité en 2018 avec des adjonctions), d’autres sur l’écologie politique Pour une philosophie de
l’écologie Agora Pocket, 2012 et sur le néoconservatisme Les Néoconservateurs Agora Pocket 2017.
We will try to define a special variety of neoliberalism, used by the contemporary neoconservatist
regimes. Are the relationship between an authoritarian state, the social role of religion, and the
application of market values to institutions their main features ?
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Dr Haud Guéguen
Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers
2, rue Conté
75003 Paris, France
Haud Guéguen est maître de conférences au Cnam, membre du laboratoire CRTD et membre associée du laboratoire
Sophiapol. Ses recherches portent sur les théories contemporaines de la reconnaissance, l’histoire politique des
concepts de possible et d’utopie ainsi que sur la subjectivation néolibérale telle qu’elle se joue en particulier dans le
champ du travail.
Starting from Butler’s theories on “grievability” and then focusing on neoliberal techniques of
quantifying the economic value of life – from Hardin and Hayek’s theories to calculating human life
value in the pandemic –, our intervention aims to investigate the normative frameworks of neoliberal
recognition of human lives.
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Prof. Anselm Jappe
Accademia di Belle Arti di Sassari (Italie)
Anselm Jappe est l’auteur de Guy Debord (Denoel 2001, La Découverte 2020), Les Aventures de la
marchandise. Pour une critique de la valeur (Denoel 2003, La Découverte 2017), L’Avant-garde
inacceptable. Réflexions sur Guy Debord (Lignes, 2004), Crédit à mort (Lignes 2011), La Société
autophage (La Découverte, 2017), Béton. Arme de construction massive du capitalisme (L’Echappée,
2020). Il enseigne actuellement l’esthétique à l’école d’art de Sassari (Italie). Il a contribué à l’élaboration
de la « critique de la valeur » à travers les revues allemandes Krisis et Exit ! et la revue française Jaggernaut.
In recent years, many criticisms have been levelled at capitalism again. But what is meant by
"capitalism"? Very often, it is identified with what is only one of its historical forms, the most recent:
neo-liberalism, dominated by finance.
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Prof. Christian Laval
Université Paris Nanterre
Christian Laval est professeur émérite de sociologie à l’Université Paris Nanterre et membre du
laboratoire Sophiapol. Il co-anime le Groupe d’études sur le néolibéralisme et les alternatives. Il est
l’auteur de plusieurs ouvrages, souvent co-écrits avec Pierre Dardot, dont le dernier en date s’intitule
Dominer, Enquête sur la souveraineté de l’État en Occident (La Découverte,2020) .
The enemies of doctrinal neoliberalism are collectivism and egalitarianism. To fight them it needs a
strong state. Today, this strategic dimension is returning to the forefront in a reactionary and nationalist
form that captures popular anger and turns it against leftist forces, intellectuals, migrants and minorities.
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Prof. Achille Mbembe
Professeur d’histoire et de science politique, Université du Witwatersrand, Johannesburg (Afrique du Sud). Dernier
ouvrage paru: Brutalisme (Editions La Découverte, 2020). Laurent du Prix Ernst Bloch 2018. Membre de l’académie
américaine des sciences et des lettres.
The world we have already entered will be dominated by gigantic computing devices. It is the
expression of a regime of existence in which automated systems collect and process countless data
relating to each of our acts, desires and behaviours. Following the reflections made in the last book,
Brutalism, we will look at these logics of calculation in order to measure their role in the "weighing of
lives" at the heart of the neoliberal government.
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Dr Massimiliano Nicoli
Sophiapol – Université Paris Nanterre
Massimiliano Nicoli est docteur en philosophie, chercheur rattaché au laboratoire Sophiapol, Université
Paris Nanterre et chargé de cours à ESPOL, European School of Political and Social Sciences, Lille et au
NCEP, Nouveau Collège d’Études Politiques, Nanterre. Ses recherches portent surtout sur l’analyse des
transformations de la subjectivité politique dans les sociétés néolibérales et sur l’économie politique
de la « valorisation de soi ».
Starting from Butler’s theories on “grievability” and then focusing on neoliberal techniques of
quantifying the economic value of life – from Hardin and Hayek’s theories to calculating human life
value in the pandemic –, our intervention aims to investigate the normative frameworks of neoliberal
recognition of human lives.
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Prof. Pele Antonio
Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, (Law School)
Antonio Pele is an Associate Professor at the Law School of the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio
de Janeiro. He has also taught at the Carlos III University of Madrid. Visiting Scholar, The University of
Chicago, Pozen Family Center for Human Rights. Ph.d in Law/Human Rights, Carlos III University of
Madrid. BA, "Sciences-Po", Bordeaux.
His research is mainly concerned with Critical Theory, Ethics and Human Dignity. He is the co-editor of
the journal Direito, Estado e Sociedade
Website: https://www.antoniopele.com
Je vais examiner les initiatives médicales/sanitaires que les réseaux populaires des favelas ont prises
pour répondre à la pandémie actuelle. Je vais expliquer que la santé devient éminemment politique et
étroitement liée à la justice sociale au Brésil. Enfin, je présenterais comment les efforts populaires visent
à fournir des aliments gratuits et à promouvoir la production des agriculteurs locaux dans les favelas
pendant la pandémie.
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Dr Pierre Sauvêtre
Université Paris Nanterre
Our presentation will try to characterize neoliberalism as competitive brutalism, in the sense
that what governmental rationality concretely consists of is the imposition by the state, and ultimately
through state violence, of a national and global order, of economic competition. While sharing many
aspects of Foucault's analysis, in particular the idea that neo-liberalism differs from liberalism in that
it subjects the market to the norm of competition, we will depart from the definition of neo-liberal
governmentality as a power consisting in the conduct of freedom, because neo-liberalism consists rather
in imposing an order of 'freedom' by consciously using state coercion to do so. Neoliberal violence is not
the product of a social process, nor of a violence legitimately exercised to protect the population, but is
the result of the violent action produced by the state to build social order. This is what we call "brutalism".
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Prof. Simon Springer
University of Newcastle
Simon Springer is Professor of Human Geography, Head of Discipline for Geography and Environmental
Studies, and Director of the Centre for Urban and Regional Studies at the University of Newcastle,
Australia. His research agenda explores the social and political exclusions of neoliberalism, where he
emphasizes the geographies of violence and power. He cultivates a cutting edge theoretical approach
to his scholarship through a radical revival of anarchist philosophy. Simon’s books include Translating
Resistance (PM Press), The Anarchist Roots of Geography (University of Minnesota Press), The Discourse
of Neoliberalism (Rowman & Littlefield), Violent Neoliberalism (Palgrave Macmillan), and Cambodia’s
Neoliberal Order (Routledge). His edited books include The Handbook of Neoliberalism (Routledge),
The Handbook of Contemporary Cambodia (Routledge), the Anarchism, Geography and the Spirit of
Revolt trilogy (Rowman & Littlefield) and the Anarchist Political Ecology Trilogy (Rowman & Littlefield).
He serves as an Editor of both ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies and the
Transforming Capitalism book series published by Rowman & Littlefield.
Mutual Aid and the Neoliberal Pandemic: Caring for Community during COVID
and the Continuing Crisis of Capitalism
Neoliberalism is synonymous with crisis. With each successive natural or human made disaster we see
the reach of neoliberalism extended even further. These moments of vulnerability are exploited as
opportunities to push through unpopular changes when people are too bewildered and beleaguered
to fight back. The recent COVID-19 pandemic is exemplary of this ongoing logic, insofar as it has
been the rationale for many sectors, most notably higher education, to “rationalize” and “optimize”
their operations more and more along market lines. The idea of education for the sake of knowledge
production and personal growth no longer holds true. Governments are putting pressure on the sector
to create “job ready graduates”, which means pandering to a consumerist ethos and speculating on
industry demands. Mass job cuts follow such restructuring and communities, already devastated by a
crisis, face new hardships that work against the shared interest of recovery. But there is an alternative
to this callous trajectory and it is to be found in mutual aid and community based forms of reciprocity.
Mutual aid is the fundamental basis of all human societies, an understanding that, in sharp relief to
neoliberalism, is also exemplified with striking clarity during times of crises. People necessarily come
together and help each other out in these moments. So as neoliberalism rushes in to capitalize
on catastrophe, its failings are simultaneously exposed by the ingenuity and resourcefulness of
communities who, in spite of the challenges, almost always find a way to rebuild their lives through
practices of caring for community.
Le néolibéralisme est synonyme de crise. Les moments de vulnérabilité sont exploités comme
des occasions de faire passer des changements impopulaires, comme l'illustre la récente pandémie
COVID-19. Mais une alternative à cette trajectoire peut être trouvée dans l'aide mutuelle et les formes
de réciprocité basées sur la communauté, qui se sont développées en masse en réponse à la pandémie.
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