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The Long 2020 Reflections of Epidemiological Times

Title
The Long 2020 [electronic resource] : Reflections of Epidemiological Times / edited by Subhas Ranjan Chakraborty, Paula Banerjee, Kaustubh Mani Sengupta.
ISBN
9789819948154
Edition
1st ed. 2024.
Publication
Singapore : Springer Nature Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2024.
Physical Description
1 online resource (X, 224 p.) 4 illus., 1 illus. in color.
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Summary
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 protection and care and the role of state in that, and precarities of the migrants and the refugees. It brings together scholars from different fields to think of our present in the time of COVID-19 pandemic in a longer temporal frame. The essays compiled in this book investigate issues mentioned above, covering a period from the colonial past to the postcolonial present with an aim towards encouraging scholarly debates on protection, care and justice. Although the experiences of last two years have inspired some very important academic and scholarly interventions, this book compiles original research to contextualise the present in a longue duree framework and arrive at a more complex understanding of it. It is a must-have resource for researchers of developmental studies especially in the above mentioned areas, as well as policy makers, think tanks and other non-governmental organizations interested in these areas.
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Format
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Language
English
Added to Catalog
April 10, 2024
Series
India Studies in Business and Economics,
India Studies in Business and Economics,
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).
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