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Biopolitics and Healing in a Mass Milieu
About this book
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. Contributors to this volume discuss crucial themes like geropolitics and pandemic reflections on the question of old age, borders and logistics in a world emerging from the pandemic, immunization of humans and humanization of immunity, thus defining the Indian contexts of the biopolitical problematic. Extending its analysis into a retrospective vision of thought traditions and socio-political underpinnings that shaped modernity and post-coloniality in India, it also explores the medico-therapeutical discourse embedded in philosophy of medicine and philosophical modernity tracing its interstitial positioning as therapeutic-assemblages in a milieu of mass healing.
This book will be useful for scholars and researchers of biopolitics, philosophy, political philosophy, sociology, science and technology studies, medical sociology, health and well-being, and cultural studies.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Half-Title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- Foreword by Vaibhav Saria
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Geropolitics: Pandemic and the Figure of the Elderly in the United States and India
- 2 Human Relationality, Platformization of Economy, and Pandemic Transitions
- 3 Covidian Dilemma: To Perpetuate or Not to Perpetuate the Distress of the Poor
- 4 Humanisation of Immunity and the Immunisation of Humans: State of the Problem
- 5 ‘Psychagogy’ or Pedagogy?: Techniques and Ethos of Philosophical Therapeutics
- 6 Body or/and Life?: Assemblages in the Age of Mass Healing
- Index