Biopolitics and Healing in a Mass Milieu
K. V. Cybil, "Biopolitics and Healing in a Mass Milieu"
English | ISBN: 1032200405 | 2023 | 122 pages | EPUB, PDF | 610 KB + 10 MB
English | ISBN: 1032200405 | 2023 | 122 pages | EPUB, PDF | 610 KB + 10 MB
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.
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