Violencia, policía y estado en tiempos pandémicos. Un estudio en Río Negro

Abstract

This article presents some of the results reached by the "Río Negro" Node, composed of students and researchers from the National University of Río Negro, who formed the PISAC-COVID 19 "Security Forces, vulnerability and violence". It refers to the interaction between the police and the population in the cities of Cipolletti and San Carlos de Bariloche, throughout the year 2021. In the exceptional conditions brought about by the pandemic, we made an effort to understand the notion of statehood enunciated and questioned and that circulated in some vulnerable neighborhoods of those localities and, as a result of the police increase in the maintenance of order in public spaces, it was necessary to review the notions and perceptions of violence(s). To this end, fieldwork was carried out and some of the results are presented here.