Writing the disaster
Substance activism after Bhopal
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7213869 |
|---|---|
| Authors | D Banerjee (0000-0001-9786-796X, New York University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 230-242 |
| Publication date | 2013-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Contemporary South Asia (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0958-4935 • E-ISSN: 1469-364X |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/09584935.2013.826623 |
| OpenAlex | W2011541994 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 13 |
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 broader history of substance-politics in the region, this article suggests that these protests produced an imagination of bodily substances that surfaced messy contradictions that became difficult for the Indian State to disregard. This article also shows how these protests distanced themselves from the cynicism attached to similar modes of corporeal activism in the contemporary Indian landscape. In sum, this article traces the production of an activist corporeal counter-discourse that, for at least a time, contaminated the procedures through which the Indian State disregards the health of its marginal citizens
Criminology · Cynicism · Environmentalism · Journalism · Media studies · Neglect · Political activism · Political science · Politics · Psychiatry · Sociology · State (computer science · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Geographies of human-animal interactions · History · Law · Psychology · South Asian Studies and Conflicts
| Unique citing works | 7 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.58 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2026 (13) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |