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Necropolitical Governance and State-Corporate Harms: COVID-19 and the U.S. Pork Packing Industry

Authors: Ivy Ken and Kenneth Sebastian León

First Published April 23, 2021



Abstract

The coronavirus pandemic has magnified the interdependence of the state and corporations in the pork packing industry. In 2020, when over 67,000 meatpacking and processing workers were infected with the virus, the state allowed and encouraged this industry to coerce a racialized workforce to risk their health and lives to slaughter pigs. While it would seem reasonable to call for more regulation to protect labor in this industry, we find by analyzing the state’s actions in 2020 that its interests are too far aligned with corporations’ interests to expect one to police the other. Our analysis underlines the state as a symbiotic partner of corporations, and places workers’ illnesses and deaths in a necropolitical framework that demands attention to the state’s tacit approval of inhumane working conditions, use of law to keep packing plants open, and attempts to limit the liability of corporations for any deaths or illnesses they have caused.


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A mediados de marzo de 2020, prácticamente todos los países del continente se declararon en emergencia sanitaria, cerraron sus fronteras y adoptaron una serie de medidas excepcionales para provocar la inmovilidad forzada que promete contender al virus. Fue entonces cuando más de 30 investigadorxs de las Américas, interesados analítica y políticamente en la cuestión migratoria, nos juntamos virtualmente y nos empezamos a preguntar por la situación particular de millones de migrantes mujeres, hombres, niños, niñas y adolescentes, del continente o provenientes de otras latitudes, todos sujetos en movimiento.

E-mail: covid19inmovilidad@gmail.com

 

Idea original: Soledad Álvarez Velasco, University of Illinois Chicago

Coordinación general: Soledad Álvarez Velasco, University of Illinois Chicago y Ulla D. Berg, Rutgers University

Investigación, sistematización y desarrollo de contenidos: Soledad Álvarez Velasco, University of Illinois Chicago;  Ulla D. Berg, Rutgers University; Lucía Pérez-Martínez, FLACSO-Ecuador; Mónica Salmon, New School for Social Research; Sebastián León,  Rutgers University.

Coordinación Mapeo Polifónico: Iréri Ceja Cárdenas: Museo Nacional/ Universidad Federal de Rio de Janeiro

Asesoría del proyecto : Nicholas De Genova, Universidad of Houston.

Equipo de traducción Español-Inglés: 

Ryan Pinchot, Soledad Álvarez Velasco, Mónica Salmón, Ulla Berg, Luin Goldring, Tanya Basok, Ingrid Carlson, Gabrielle Cabrera, Ryan Pinchot.

Equipo de traducción Español-Portugués: Iréri Ceja, Gustavo Dias, Gislene Santos, Elisa Colares, Handerson Joseph, Caio Fernandes, María Villarreal.

Seminario (In) Movilidad, coordinación,
Amarela Varela, Universidad Autonoma de la Ciudad de México; Mariana Zaragosa, Universidad de Deusto; Soledad Álvarez Velasco, Universidad de Illinois Chicago

Diseño y desarrollo de página web: ACHU! Studio; Francisco Hurtado Caicedo, Observatorio Social del Ecuador.

Fotografía : David Gustafsson y Cynthia Briones.

Video: David Gustafsson.

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