D Banerjee
Biographic Data
| ID | 57793 |
|---|---|
| NAME | D Banerjee |
| GIVEN NAMES | D |
| FAMILY NAME | Banerjee |
| SIGNATURE | BANERJEE D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9786-796X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 37 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1964 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Dons réels et potentiels
Ce qui est donné peut être évalué par rapport à ce qui aurait pu être donné mais ne l'a pas été. Le thème central de cet essai est ce que nous appelons la relation de don fantôme, afin de montrer combien ces dons qui n'ont pas été, à la fois présent et non présent, viennent hanter et déstabiliser les dons effectifs. Nous explorons comment cette relation peut constituer la base de la critique sociale. Cet essai définit ainsi une sorte de « garder …
The Mystery of the Missing Pandemic
In the history of medicine, the 1918 influenza pandemic (otherwise known as the Spanish flu) occupies a curious place. For decades, historians have claimed that this event reshaped human history, but then somehow disappeared, leaving little historical trace. They have also claimed that this forgetting is particularly evident in the Global South, which experienced the worst devastation. If the Spanish flu has been forgotten, what would its memoria…
Provincializing bioethics
Since the 1980s, anthropologists have criticized a US-centric view of bioethics that presents individual autonomy as a universal principle without acknowledging its embeddedness in time and place. A recent turn in this critique points out how this view has gained dominance across the world, traveling alongside clinical trials and global health interventions. Here, centering a competing bioethical vision disrupts this division between the Global N…
From Internationalism to Nationalism
The steady rollout of Covid-19 vaccines comes attached with a series of difficult questions. Are vaccines a human right? Should patents be enforced in a way that puts people in the global South behind in a global queue? These questions are not new; the world struggled with these ethical dilemmas during the HIV-AIDS pandemic at the end of the twentieth century, when global South governments led by Nelson Mandela fought multinational pharmaceutical…
Discussant’s comment II
Argument: Reflections on Knowledge Exchanges' It is a pleasure to respond to Prof. Strathern's observations on the limits and possibilities knowledge-exchange.Her instructive lecture reminds us of two questions that are staked in any meaningful analysis of knowledge flows.The first: what counts as 'knowledge' and what are the processes through which we come to an agreement on its forms and practices?The second: on what terms can knowledge be exch…
Actual and potential gifts
What is given may be evaluated in relation to what might have been given but was not. The central thematic of this essay is what we term the shadow gift relation (as distinct from the more standard anthropological gift relation among exchange partner dyads) between the gift that is given and that which remains ungiven-with the latter, both present and not present, coming to haunt and unsettle the former. The potential of the gift is key for it is…
Hindutva's Blood
In this article we examine blood as a medium and metaphor for Hindutva’s political transactions. Specifically, we identify three ways in which blood operates in Hindutva thought and practice. First, it serves to create a spatial geographic whole – an original Hindu nation whose inhabitants share the same blood. Second, blood serves to mediate between the violent and non-violent aspects of Hindu nationalism, authorizing and reconciling present act…
Cancer and secrecy in contemporary India
Hematologies
In this ground-breaking account of the political economy and cultural meaning of blood in contemporary India, Jacob Copeman and Dwaipayan Banerjee examine how the giving and receiving of blood has shaped social and political life. Hematologies traces how the substance congeals political ideologies, biomedical rationalities, and activist practices. Using examples from anti-colonial appeals to blood sacrifice as a political philosophy to contempora…
Cancer and Conjugality in Contemporary Delhi
This article tracks the entanglement of cancer and patterns of conjugality in Delhi. Building on fieldwork with about 120 households in Delhi, it describes how the disease put pressure on already fraught marital biographies, revealing durable fissures in household relations. Often, these shifts in the distribution of conjugal vulnerability opened cracks that allowed long histories of domestic violence to seep through. In subtle ways, women could …
Ungiven
Drawing on field research principally from contexts of medical blood donation in North India, this article describes how gifts that are given often critique-by obviation-those that remain ungiven: the care not provided by the Indian state for Bhopal survivors, the family members unwilling to donate blood for their transfusion-requiring relative, and so on. In this way, giving can come to look like a form of criticism. The critiques that acts of g…
Doctoring traditions
The mahatma in the machine
Comment on Skaria, Ajay. 2016. Unconditional Equality: Gandhi's Religion of Resistance. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press
Markets and Molecules
The Indian pharmaceutical industry has historically manufactured low-cost drugs for the global poor. Activist mobilizations at the height of the HIV/AIDS epidemic revealed a vast cost gap between global brands and Indian generics, much to the embarrassment of Euro-American corporations that were in the habit of pricing drugs for only the wealthy or well insured. As new drug access controversies focus on anticancer therapies, they reveal new flows…
Urban Residential Road Traffic Noise and Hypertension
The Last Tribe
For two decades now, David MacDougall's films on children in India have explored one of anthropology's central concerns: how do we represent difference and different ways of inhabiting the world, w
PP63 The Role of Ethnicity Concerning the Prevalence and Severity of Obstructive Sleep Apnoea in Severely Obese Patients
Background The South Asian population is at increased risk of cardiovascular disease. South Asians residing in western countries also have increased risk of obesity and associated comborbidities compared to white European counterparts. We compared the prevalence and severity of obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) along with comorbidities in South Asians and white Europeans with severe obesity. Methods Data from consecutive patients attending a special…
Writing the disaster
In 2008, survivors of the 1984 Bhopal Gas Disaster in India undertook a 500-mile march to New Delhi, protesting a long history of governmental neglect of the survivors of the event. This is one episode of a 25-year-old organized international campaign that continues in the present. This article examines the ways in which three bodily substances – blood, hearts and ketones – were produced and circulated through the 2008 protests. Placed within a b…
ESR dating of tephra with dose recovery test for impurity centers in quartz
Introduction
The papers in this section demonstrate the rich possibilities in bringing frames of political normativity and its production of legible and illegible bodies into the domain of critique. Broadly, they ask: How might we think through the appearance and disappearance of bodies in normative frameworks of power-as an object of discipline, as a producer and product of desire, as the space of economic calculation and risk-taking? A technique many of the…
Evaluation and Analysis of Road Traffic Noise in Asansol
The objectives of the study were to monitor and assess the road traffic noise in its spatial-temporal aspect in an urban area. The paper discusses the observations, results and their interpretation based on the study. Noise recordings from site, collected from April 2006 to March 2006, were used for statistical analysis and generation of various noise indices. Noise maps were also created for impact analysis and formulation of Noise Risk Zones. M…
Evaluation and Analysis of Road Traffic Noise in Asansol
The objectives of the study were to monitor and assess the road traffic noise in its spatial-temporal aspect in an urban area. The paper discusses the observations, results and their interpretation based on the study. Noise recordings from site, collected from April 2006 to March 2006, were used for statistical analysis and generation of various noise indices. Noise maps were also created for impact analysis and formulation of Noise Risk Zones. M…
Photonic dating of prehistoric irrigation canals at Phoenix, Arizona, U.S.A
A number of archeological features, including in‐filled irrigation canals of uncertain prehistoric age, occur within the Holocene floodplain of the Salt River at Phoenix, Arizona. In the first attempt to date irrigation‐canal sediments using luminescence methods, we obtained age estimates of 1640 ± 190 yr B.P. (1σ) (multi‐aliquot or MA) and 1621 ± 95 yr B.P. (post‐IR single‐aliquot‐regenerative‐dose or SAR) for a single sample from the base of th…
Choice and Order
Indian Sex Life
Provincializing bioethics
Since the 1980s, anthropologists have criticized a US-centric view of bioethics that presents individual autonomy as a universal principle without acknowledging its embeddedness in time and place. A recent turn in this critique points out how this view has gained dominance across the world, traveling alongside clinical trials and global health interventions. Here, centering a competing bioethical vision disrupts this division between the Global N…
Cancer and Conjugality in Contemporary Delhi
This article tracks the entanglement of cancer and patterns of conjugality in Delhi. Building on fieldwork with about 120 households in Delhi, it describes how the disease put pressure on already fraught marital biographies, revealing durable fissures in household relations. Often, these shifts in the distribution of conjugal vulnerability opened cracks that allowed long histories of domestic violence to seep through. In subtle ways, women could …
Ungiven
Drawing on field research principally from contexts of medical blood donation in North India, this article describes how gifts that are given often critique-by obviation-those that remain ungiven: the care not provided by the Indian state for Bhopal survivors, the family members unwilling to donate blood for their transfusion-requiring relative, and so on. In this way, giving can come to look like a form of criticism. The critiques that acts of g…
Writing the disaster
In 2008, survivors of the 1984 Bhopal Gas Disaster in India undertook a 500-mile march to New Delhi, protesting a long history of governmental neglect of the survivors of the event. This is one episode of a 25-year-old organized international campaign that continues in the present. This article examines the ways in which three bodily substances – blood, hearts and ketones – were produced and circulated through the 2008 protests. Placed within a b…
Actual and potential gifts
What is given may be evaluated in relation to what might have been given but was not. The central thematic of this essay is what we term the shadow gift relation (as distinct from the more standard anthropological gift relation among exchange partner dyads) between the gift that is given and that which remains ungiven-with the latter, both present and not present, coming to haunt and unsettle the former. The potential of the gift is key for it is…
Hindutva's Blood
In this article we examine blood as a medium and metaphor for Hindutva’s political transactions. Specifically, we identify three ways in which blood operates in Hindutva thought and practice. First, it serves to create a spatial geographic whole – an original Hindu nation whose inhabitants share the same blood. Second, blood serves to mediate between the violent and non-violent aspects of Hindu nationalism, authorizing and reconciling present act…
Markets and Molecules
The Indian pharmaceutical industry has historically manufactured low-cost drugs for the global poor. Activist mobilizations at the height of the HIV/AIDS epidemic revealed a vast cost gap between global brands and Indian generics, much to the embarrassment of Euro-American corporations that were in the habit of pricing drugs for only the wealthy or well insured. As new drug access controversies focus on anticancer therapies, they reveal new flows…
Choice and Order
From Internationalism to Nationalism
The steady rollout of Covid-19 vaccines comes attached with a series of difficult questions. Are vaccines a human right? Should patents be enforced in a way that puts people in the global South behind in a global queue? These questions are not new; the world struggled with these ethical dilemmas during the HIV-AIDS pandemic at the end of the twentieth century, when global South governments led by Nelson Mandela fought multinational pharmaceutical…
Doctoring traditions
Introduction
The papers in this section demonstrate the rich possibilities in bringing frames of political normativity and its production of legible and illegible bodies into the domain of critique. Broadly, they ask: How might we think through the appearance and disappearance of bodies in normative frameworks of power-as an object of discipline, as a producer and product of desire, as the space of economic calculation and risk-taking? A technique many of the…
Choice and Order
Photonic dating of prehistoric irrigation canals at Phoenix, Arizona, U.S.A
A number of archeological features, including in‐filled irrigation canals of uncertain prehistoric age, occur within the Holocene floodplain of the Salt River at Phoenix, Arizona. In the first attempt to date irrigation‐canal sediments using luminescence methods, we obtained age estimates of 1640 ± 190 yr B.P. (1σ) (multi‐aliquot or MA) and 1621 ± 95 yr B.P. (post‐IR single‐aliquot‐regenerative‐dose or SAR) for a single sample from the base of th…
Evaluation and Analysis of Road Traffic Noise in Asansol
The objectives of the study were to monitor and assess the road traffic noise in its spatial-temporal aspect in an urban area. The paper discusses the observations, results and their interpretation based on the study. Noise recordings from site, collected from April 2006 to March 2006, were used for statistical analysis and generation of various noise indices. Noise maps were also created for impact analysis and formulation of Noise Risk Zones. M…
Evaluation and Analysis of Road Traffic Noise in Asansol
The objectives of the study were to monitor and assess the road traffic noise in its spatial-temporal aspect in an urban area. The paper discusses the observations, results and their interpretation based on the study. Noise recordings from site, collected from April 2006 to March 2006, were used for statistical analysis and generation of various noise indices. Noise maps were also created for impact analysis and formulation of Noise Risk Zones. M…
ESR dating of tephra with dose recovery test for impurity centers in quartz
Introduction
The papers in this section demonstrate the rich possibilities in bringing frames of political normativity and its production of legible and illegible bodies into the domain of critique. Broadly, they ask: How might we think through the appearance and disappearance of bodies in normative frameworks of power-as an object of discipline, as a producer and product of desire, as the space of economic calculation and risk-taking? A technique many of the…
PP63 The Role of Ethnicity Concerning the Prevalence and Severity of Obstructive Sleep Apnoea in Severely Obese Patients
Background The South Asian population is at increased risk of cardiovascular disease. South Asians residing in western countries also have increased risk of obesity and associated comborbidities compared to white European counterparts. We compared the prevalence and severity of obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) along with comorbidities in South Asians and white Europeans with severe obesity. Methods Data from consecutive patients attending a special…
Writing the disaster
In 2008, survivors of the 1984 Bhopal Gas Disaster in India undertook a 500-mile march to New Delhi, protesting a long history of governmental neglect of the survivors of the event. This is one episode of a 25-year-old organized international campaign that continues in the present. This article examines the ways in which three bodily substances – blood, hearts and ketones – were produced and circulated through the 2008 protests. Placed within a b…
Urban Residential Road Traffic Noise and Hypertension
The Last Tribe
For two decades now, David MacDougall's films on children in India have explored one of anthropology's central concerns: how do we represent difference and different ways of inhabiting the world, w
Doctoring traditions
The mahatma in the machine
Comment on Skaria, Ajay. 2016. Unconditional Equality: Gandhi's Religion of Resistance. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press
Markets and Molecules
The Indian pharmaceutical industry has historically manufactured low-cost drugs for the global poor. Activist mobilizations at the height of the HIV/AIDS epidemic revealed a vast cost gap between global brands and Indian generics, much to the embarrassment of Euro-American corporations that were in the habit of pricing drugs for only the wealthy or well insured. As new drug access controversies focus on anticancer therapies, they reveal new flows…
Ungiven
Drawing on field research principally from contexts of medical blood donation in North India, this article describes how gifts that are given often critique-by obviation-those that remain ungiven: the care not provided by the Indian state for Bhopal survivors, the family members unwilling to donate blood for their transfusion-requiring relative, and so on. In this way, giving can come to look like a form of criticism. The critiques that acts of g…
Cancer and secrecy in contemporary India
Hematologies
In this ground-breaking account of the political economy and cultural meaning of blood in contemporary India, Jacob Copeman and Dwaipayan Banerjee examine how the giving and receiving of blood has shaped social and political life. Hematologies traces how the substance congeals political ideologies, biomedical rationalities, and activist practices. Using examples from anti-colonial appeals to blood sacrifice as a political philosophy to contempora…
Cancer and Conjugality in Contemporary Delhi
This article tracks the entanglement of cancer and patterns of conjugality in Delhi. Building on fieldwork with about 120 households in Delhi, it describes how the disease put pressure on already fraught marital biographies, revealing durable fissures in household relations. Often, these shifts in the distribution of conjugal vulnerability opened cracks that allowed long histories of domestic violence to seep through. In subtle ways, women could …
Hindutva's Blood
In this article we examine blood as a medium and metaphor for Hindutva’s political transactions. Specifically, we identify three ways in which blood operates in Hindutva thought and practice. First, it serves to create a spatial geographic whole – an original Hindu nation whose inhabitants share the same blood. Second, blood serves to mediate between the violent and non-violent aspects of Hindu nationalism, authorizing and reconciling present act…
From Internationalism to Nationalism
The steady rollout of Covid-19 vaccines comes attached with a series of difficult questions. Are vaccines a human right? Should patents be enforced in a way that puts people in the global South behind in a global queue? These questions are not new; the world struggled with these ethical dilemmas during the HIV-AIDS pandemic at the end of the twentieth century, when global South governments led by Nelson Mandela fought multinational pharmaceutical…
Discussant’s comment II
Argument: Reflections on Knowledge Exchanges' It is a pleasure to respond to Prof. Strathern's observations on the limits and possibilities knowledge-exchange.Her instructive lecture reminds us of two questions that are staked in any meaningful analysis of knowledge flows.The first: what counts as 'knowledge' and what are the processes through which we come to an agreement on its forms and practices?The second: on what terms can knowledge be exch…
Actual and potential gifts
What is given may be evaluated in relation to what might have been given but was not. The central thematic of this essay is what we term the shadow gift relation (as distinct from the more standard anthropological gift relation among exchange partner dyads) between the gift that is given and that which remains ungiven-with the latter, both present and not present, coming to haunt and unsettle the former. The potential of the gift is key for it is…
Provincializing bioethics
Since the 1980s, anthropologists have criticized a US-centric view of bioethics that presents individual autonomy as a universal principle without acknowledging its embeddedness in time and place. A recent turn in this critique points out how this view has gained dominance across the world, traveling alongside clinical trials and global health interventions. Here, centering a competing bioethical vision disrupts this division between the Global N…
The Mystery of the Missing Pandemic
In the history of medicine, the 1918 influenza pandemic (otherwise known as the Spanish flu) occupies a curious place. For decades, historians have claimed that this event reshaped human history, but then somehow disappeared, leaving little historical trace. They have also claimed that this forgetting is particularly evident in the Global South, which experienced the worst devastation. If the Spanish flu has been forgotten, what would its memoria…
Indian Sex Life
Dons réels et potentiels
Ce qui est donné peut être évalué par rapport à ce qui aurait pu être donné mais ne l'a pas été. Le thème central de cet essai est ce que nous appelons la relation de don fantôme, afin de montrer combien ces dons qui n'ont pas été, à la fois présent et non présent, viennent hanter et déstabiliser les dons effectifs. Nous explorons comment cette relation peut constituer la base de la critique sociale. Cet essai définit ainsi une sorte de « garder …
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