Biopolitics and Healing in a Mass Milieu

Several of the key concepts of biopolitics have come under scrutiny since the outbreak of Covid-19 pandemic. This volume brings into discussion how biopolitics can be conceptualized critically within a milieu of mass healing, such as in India. P

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K. V. Cybil is Associate Professor with the Department of Humanities at IIT BHU, Varanasi. He has been associated with the Social Science Research Council, New York (2005), Indian Council for Social Science Research, New Delhi (2012), and the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi (2013), as part of research fellowships. He has contributed articles in journals including the Economic and Political Weekly, Deleuze and Guattari Studies, and The Sociological Review. His recent work is an edited book, Social Justice: Interdisciplinary Inquiries from India (Routledge, 2019). He has contributed articles on Desire, Body, and Capitalism: Dalit Literature and Becoming Political in a Postcolonial World, in Deleuze, Guattari and India: Exploring a Post-Colonial Multiplicity (Routledge, 2022), and Narayana Guru and the Formation of Political Society in Kerala, in The Routledge Handbook of Other Backward Classes in India (2022). His current work is a social-anthropological study of systems of thought based on technology in India.

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Introduction 1. Geropolitics: Pandemic and the Figure of the Elderly in the United States and India LAWRENCE COHEN 2. Human Relationality, Platformization of Economy, and Pandemic Transitions BRETT NEILSON 3. Covidian Dilemma: To Perpetuate or not to Perpetuate the Distress of the Poor SUSAN VISVANATHAN 4. Humanisation of Immunity and the Immunisation of Humans: State of the Problem SOUMYABRATA CHOUDHURY 5. 'Psychagogy' or Pedagogy?: Techniques and Ethos of Philosophical Therapeutics ROSHNI BABU 6. Body or/and Life?: Assemblages in the Age of Mass Healing K. V. CYBIL