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Editorial N° 03/2020 The COVID-19 epoch: Interdisciplinary research towards a new just and sustainable ethic

2020; Associação Nacional de Pós-Graduação e Pesquisa em Ambiente e Sociedade (ANPPAS); Volume: 23; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1590/1809-4422asoceditorialvu2020l3ed

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Zenaida Lauda-Rodriguez, Beatriz Milz, Igor Matheus Santana-Chaves, Pedro Henrique Campello Torres, Pedro Roberto Jacobi,

Leadership, Behavior, and Decision-Making Studies

On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the CO-VID-19 pandemic.Despite potentially reaching everyone in the four corners of the planet, not everyone is affected in the same way (MAROKO; NASH; PAVILONIS, 2020; OUT-RIGHT, 2020;TORRES;LINKE, 2020).Studies already indicate an uneven distribution among the affected groups, with a focus on most vulnerable populations.The beginning of the pandemic has generated a series of tensions and conflicts in academic activities.Whether due to the difficulties imposed by forced distance learning that several institutions had to adhere to without any pedagogical preparation.Or by the challenges that researchers (men, women, or non-binaries), especially with children, have been experiencing due to the accumulation of daily activities, by the pressure to produce knowledge in a period of exception (MINELLO, 2020;CORBERA et al., 2020).Aware of this, the editorial board of Ambiente & Sociedade journal released on March 24 a message to the community informing the option of not interrupting the work during the period, but alerting for a decrease in the production pace, possible delays and the impossibility of corroborating with a particular current "academic normality".Academic productivity should not come first, the note said.But assistance to communities, students, relatives, and colleagues.Therefore, it is about seeking an academic culture of care, as proposed by Corbera et al. (2020).Towards a transformation that could transform academic practices related to just sustainability, solidary, and sorority ethics by the crisis end.But the illusions of a world "post-COVID" fairer, less consumerist, and supportive quickly vanished through the air.Exceptions, as a form of resistance, are spaces of hope, authentic "invented spaces of action" (MIRAFTAB, 2016), in which insurgent collective actions of reaction and mobilization operate in the vacuum of inoperative public action.As the expansion of the virus left the spheres of the upper and middle classes (in fact, it was the mobility capacity of these classes that facilitated the spread of the virus around the world) and in the face of the erratic posture of government leaders for containment and confrontation from the crisis generated by the arrival of the virus, several initiatives were spreading in several regions of Brazil so that the more fragile populations and with less capacity of response, could face the pandemic.Examples like the Landless Rural Workers Movement (MST) that has been providing food, medical care and other support to thousands of Brazilians across the country during the pandemic; the organization in the Paraisópolis favela, in São Paulo, under the leadership of the Paraisópolis Women's Association; initiatives such as the Mothers of the Favela, linked to CUFA (Central Única de Favelas) which consists of the delivery of R$ 120.00 Mother Vouchers in around 500 Brazilian favelas; welcoming the vulnerable population of transsexuals, transvestites and transgender people to Casa Nem, in Rio de Janeiro, during the pandemic; and collection of donations by diverse groups and collectives such as the Articulation of Indigenous Peoples in Brazil -APIB, the União de Núcleos de Educação Popular para Negras/os e Classe Trabalhadora -UNEafro, Base-Warmis-Convergence of Cultures Team that works with population migrant, among many other initiatives, account for the capacity for organization and cooperation, as well as the sense of solidarity and empathy among the groups most affected by the crisis.