Science and the Covid Epidemic in India
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4188530 |
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| Authors | Shiv Visvanathan, Chandrika Parmar |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 90 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 33-51 |
| Publication date | 2023-03-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0037-783X • E-ISSN: 1944-768X |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/sor.2023.0001 |
| OpenAlex | W4366780062 |
| Language | EN |
This essay explores the relationship between scientific knowledge and democracy in India, using COVID-19 as a case study. It shows how the state consolidates itself through technological fixes, ignoring deeper issues in civil society. The essay covers the impact of COVID-19 on migrants and the informal economy and suggests that civil society needs a biopolitics from below. It discusses the need to rework concepts like citizenship and vulnerability and cautions that the epidemic has to be seen as a prelude to the deeper demands of the Anthropocene
2019-20 coronavirus outbreak · Anthropocene · Biopower · Citizenship · Civil society · Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) · Democracy · Development economics · Economics · Environmental ethics · Outbreak · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) · Social science · Sociology · State (computer science) · Vulnerability (computing) · COVID-19 epidemiological studies · COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts · Global Security and Public Health · Law · Medicine · Virology
| Highly cited | No |
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