Managing the Disaster of Covid-19
An Analysis of Public Policy in Odisha on India’s East Coast
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 14713271 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Soumendra Mohan Patnaik (0000-0001-6181-8429, University of Delhi, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Publication date | 2023-04-19 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Etnoantropološki problemi / Issues in Ethnology and Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0353-1589 • E-ISSN: 2334-8801 |
| Publisher | University of Belgrade - Faculty of Philosophy - Department of Ethnology and Anthropology (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.21301/eap.v18i1.5 |
| OpenAlex | W4366579062 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 4 |
This paper is a critical reflection on Covid-19 management strategies adopted in Odisha, a state on India’s east coast. The unprecedented scale and magnitude with which the pandemic affected the entire world was the cause of great uncertainty and collective anxiety. Managing it at the level of the entire nation state with great diversity of race, language, ethnicity, class, caste and culture has posed a great challenge for policy makers and administrators. Policy ethnographies have often relied on the Foucauldian idea of biopower and biopolitics to elucidate the governance practices in nation states with different rationalities. The present paper is an attempt to examine various policy measures adopted by the government of Odisha and how they have been affecting various institutions and everyday life. Using an ethnographical approach, the paper attempts to examine various policy initiatives and the way they get operationalized on the ground giving rise to a kind of governance practice indicative of affirmative biopolitics in the way power is exercised to direct human life and engage citizens for a secure future
Biopower · Caste · Corporate governance · Development economics · Economic growth · Economics · Government (linguistics) · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics) · Public policy · Racism · Sociology · Gender Studies · Law · Social and Economic Development in India · South Asian Studies and Conflicts
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |