06569nam 22004333 450 991084249820332120240314080233.0981-9948-15-0(MiAaPQ)EBC31209027(Au-PeEL)EBL31209027(EXLCZ)993086444860004120240314d2024 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe Long 2020 Reflections of Epidemiological Times1st ed.Singapore :Springer,2024.©2024.1 online resource (226 pages)India Studies in Business and Economics Series981-9948-14-2 Intro -- Acknowledgement -- Contents -- Editors and Contributors -- 1 Introduction: The Long 2020: Reflections of Epidemiological Times from India -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Year 2020: The Setting -- 1.3 Environment, Ecology, and the Question of Human Agency -- 1.4 Epidemics, State Action, and Ethics of Care: Past, Present, and the Future in India -- 1.5 Chapters in the Volume -- References -- Part I Of Past and Futures of Studying Epidemics -- 2 'Longue Durée', 'Conjoncture', 'Event': Notion of Plural Time in History -- 2.1 Braudel and Longue Durée -- 2.2 Variations of Long-Term Perspectives -- 2.3 Historians and Plurality of Time -- 2.4 Microhistory vis-à-vis Longue Durée -- 2.5 Plotting the Event: Looking Back at Plague in Europe -- 2.5.1 'Bacteriological Unification' -- 2.6 Disease Travels West from Europe -- 2.7 A Peep into Microhistory -- 2.8 Variation in Space: Black Death in West Asia -- 2.9 In Lieu of a Conclusion -- References -- 3 Locating the Diseased Body -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 How Diseases Were Embodied -- 3.3 HIV and Locating Patient Zero -- 3.4 Flu and Blame Game -- 3.5 A Full Circle: Covid-19 and the Diseased Body -- 3.6 Conclusion -- References -- 4 Structure, Agency, Temporality: Revisiting Historical Analyses to Study the Contemporary -- 4.1 Structure and Agency in Historical Analyses -- 4.2 Time and Temporal Scale -- 4.3 From Big History to Small Voices -- 4.4 Conclusion -- References -- 5 The Island of the Day After: Digital Epidemiology, Artificial Intelligence and a Biopolitics of Future -- 5.1 The "War" Against COVID-19 -- 5.2 Epidemics and Modern Governmentality -- 5.3 Digital Epidemiology -- 5.4 Socialisation of Risk -- 5.5 Agamben's Anxiety -- 5.6 A Biopolitics of Future -- 5.7 The Real Conflict -- References -- Part II Global and Local Response to 2020.6 Global Capitalism and Corona Pandemic-In Search for Radical Solution -- 6.1 Class-Focused Marxist Theory and Global Capitalism -- 6.2 Corona Pandemic and Rising Inequality -- 6.3 Global Capitalism, Corona and Profit Mongering -- 6.4 In Search of Radical Solutions -- References -- 7 The Long 2020/21 in India: Models of Pandemic Management and Logistics of Governance -- 7.1 Conceptualising Governmentality During the Pandemic -- 7.2 Three Models of Pandemic Management: (En)forcement of a New Normal and Normalisation of Violence -- 7.3 Shift from Governmentality of Legibility to the Isolation Model -- 7.4 Bare Life and Erasure of Rights -- 7.5 The Story of Vaccination: Reluctant Emergence of Models of Surveillance and Governmentality of Legibility -- 7.6 Withering of Healthcare -- 7.7 In Lieu of Conclusion -- References -- Part III Refugees and Labouring Lives -- 8 Politics of Health in Post-partition Calcutta: The Refugees, the Left Movements and the Question of Life in the City -- 8.1 A Background: Right to Health, 'Social' Medicine and the Politics of Life -- 8.2 Public Health and the Responsibility of Protection -- 8.3 Refugees and Migrants as Subjects of Risk -- 8.4 Health Care and the Squatters Colonies in Calcutta: Materialities of Life -- 8.5 Health, Care and the Collective Action of the Refugees -- 8.6 Health Care, Solidarity and the Production of the Colony Space -- 8.7 Left Parties, the Refugees and the Politics of Health -- 8.8 Conclusion -- References -- 9 Guest Workers in Kerala: Is Welfarism Enough? -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 A Brief History of In-Migration -- 9.3 Where Do Migrant Workers Come From? -- 9.4 Vulnerability of the Migrant Population -- 9.5 Measures to Protect Rights of the Migrant Workers -- 9.5.1 The Inter State Migrant Workmen (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Service) Act, 1979.9.5.2 Contract Labour (Regulation and Abolition) Act, 1970 -- 9.5.3 Addressing the Rights of Migrant Workers in the Construction Sector -- 9.5.4 Ensuring Fair Wages-The Minimum Wages Act, 1948 -- 9.5.5 Transition in Labour Legislations -- 9.5.6 The Need for Effective Implementation of Legislations in Kerala -- 9.6 The Welfare Approach -- 9.6.1 Kerala Migrant Welfare Scheme Act 2010 -- 9.6.2 The Awaz Health Insurance Scheme -- 9.6.3 Housing Rights for the Migrant Workers -- 9.7 Welfare Versus Rights -- 9.8 Glimpses into the Work and Life of Migrant Workers in Kerala -- 9.9 Welfare During the Lockdown -- 9.10 Involvement in Labour Unions -- 9.11 Absence of Inspections -- 9.12 Experience of Social Discrimination -- 9.13 Life After the Lockdown: Migrants, Labour and Capital -- References -- 10 Long 2020 and the Informal Care Economy: Case Studies of Select Careworkers -- 10.1 ASHA Workers and the Pandemic -- 10.1.1 Ayahs and the Pandemic -- 10.2 Observations -- 10.2.1 The Burden of Double Work -- 10.2.2 Friends Turning Foes/Strangers During Pandemic -- 10.2.3 Dearth of Protective Gears -- 10.2.4 Dearth of Any Training -- 10.3 In Lieu of Conclusion -- References -- Part IV Literature and the Literary World -- 11 Coronavirus and Other Epidemics in Bengal: A Reckoning Through Literature -- 11.1 Introduction -- 11.2 Early Tracts of Corona-Kal -- 11.3 Everyday Epidemics in Bengali Fiction -- 11.4 Tarasankar and The Epoch of Epidemics -- References -- 12 Books-And the Time-Warp of Long-COVID -- References -- References.India Studies in Business and Economics Series362.19624144Chakraborty Subhas Ranjan1732985Banerjee Paula1732986Sengupta Kaustubh Mani1732987MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910842498203321The Long 20204147947UNINA