The Long 2020 Reflections of Epidemiological Times
This book looks at the current crises of life and livelihood following the global epidemiological crisis and various strategies to manage them as a long unfolding of past trends and future possibilities of epidemiological governance, restructuring of global economy, public health, systems of protect...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Singapore
Springer Nature Singapore
2024, 2024
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2024 |
| Series: | India Studies in Business and Economics
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction: Looking beyond the Immediate
- Part 1: Of Past and Futures of Studying Epidemics
- 2. ‘Longue Durée’, ‘Conjoncture’, ‘Event’: Notion of Plural Time in History (Subhas Ranjan Chakraborty)
- 3. Locating the Diseased Body (Paula Banerjee)
- 4. Structure, Agency, Temporality: Revisiting Historical Analyses to Study the Contemporary (Kaustubh Mani Sengupta)
- 5. The Island of the Day After: Digital Epidemiology, Artificial Intelligence and a Futuristic Governmentality (Iman Mitra)
- Part 2: Global and Local Response to 2020
- 6. Global Capitalism and Corona Pandemic – In Search for Radical Solution (Byasdeb Dasgupta)
- 7. The Long 2020/21 in India: Models of Pandemic Management and Logistics of Governance (Amit Prakash)
- Part 3: Refugees and Labouring Lives
- 8. Politics of Health in Post-Partition Calcutta: the Refugees, the Left movements and the Question of Life in the City (Priyankar Dey)
- 9. Guest Workers in Kerala: Is Welfarism Enough? (Jyothi Krishnan)
- 10. Long 2020 and the Informal Care Economy: Case studies of select Careworkers (Sabir Ahamed)
- Part 4: Literature and the Literary World
- 11. Epidemic and Bangla Literature: Tropes, Traces, Topographies (Samata Biswas)
- 12. Books — and the Time-Warp of Long-COVID (Ritu Menon)