9789385606342
Women Unlimited 2021
Language: English
226 Pages
Price INR 450.0 Not Available
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A Pandemic and the Politics of Life unravels the specifi cs of the Indian experience of battling COVID-19, while adopting an international perspective, in order to analyse the why and how of this public health emergency; the neoliberal response by the state; the production of an unanticipated politics of life; and the dramatic desire for a new kind of public power.
Written during an intense time, this monograph focuses on three themes:
(i) the outbreak as an epidemiological crisis compounded by an economic crisis, a migrant crisis, and a political crisis;
(ii) the presence of the marching migrant as the fi gure of this crisis; and
(iii) the emergence of bio-politics from below as a reaction of the lower classes.
Th e author raises and answers some critical questions around the way issues of life and death are negotiated in a neoliberal order, and on what we mean by care, protection and solidarity in a post-COVID-19 world.