THINKING ABOUT ANTHROPOLOGY IN THE FIELD OF PUBLIC POLICIES: reflections on the extinction of the National Council for Food and Nutritional Security

Abstract

This article proposes to discuss the scenarios of emergence and extinction of the National Food and Nutrition Security Council (CONSEA), reflecting on the political, economic and sociocultural contexts involved in these processes. Reflecting upon what the political and health contexts in which we live in Brazil today, especially with the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, say about the extinction of proven successful social and democratic policies and the institution of necropolitics, which create worlds of death for specific social groups. To do so, we carried out a bibliographical research, using secondary sources, articles and documents on the theme that were available in the following databases: CAPES Periódicos, Google Scholar, and SciELO. As a result, we identified a scenario of Brazil's return to the Hunger Map, which points to the institutionalization of Food and Nutrition Insecurity (FNS), due to the Brazilian State's interference in the face of this reality and the attacks that have been made on agencies that acted in the fight against hunger and social inequalities, as was the case of the CONSEA.