ABSTRACT
The main purpose of this article is to discuss the resignification of place and non-place in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazilian urban spaces. The guiding question is: how to think about the resignification of places and non-places during the pandemic of the new coronavirus in Brazil? The hypothesis leads to the conception that the anthropological place and the non-place are established by a relationship of otherness. The analytical epistemic approach and the deductive reasoning method are predominantly used, and the research is procedurally bibliographic. The article is divided into two sections, the first deals more densely with place and non-place in a period of restricted occupations and sociability, while the second deals with the analysis of non-place and spatial restrictions in Brazilian cities due to the pandemic. The concepts of place and non-place underpinned formulations for analysis, as the conclusion pointed to the resignification of these spaces in the historical moment of the pandemic in Brazil, where fear and conflicts of power generated discouragement and dispersion in relation to measures of social distance to control the pandemic in Brazilian cities and that the relationship of alterity in the occupation of places and non-places during a pandemic awakens our care for the Other.
Keywords:
Alterity; Human rights; Non-Place; Place; Pandemic