The Dis-Ease of Body-Politics: “Coronavirus” as a Racial Pandemic in Contemporary India
<p class="first" id="d416445e73">The biomedical crisis of COVID-19 in India has amplified several other crises, namely; social, cultural, communal, religious, geographical, economic, political, racial and gender. It is important to note that these cr...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Pluto Journals
2020-05-01
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| Series: | International Journal of Critical Diversity Studies |
| Online Access: | https://www.scienceopen.com/hosted-document?doi=10.13169/intecritdivestud.3.1.0069 |
| Summary: | <p class="first" id="d416445e73">The biomedical crisis of COVID-19 in India has amplified several other crises, namely;
social, cultural, communal, religious, geographical, economic, political, racial and
gender. It is important to note that these crises are not new - they were already
socio-culturally embedded and functional in the pre-COVID-19 era. With the inception
of COVID-19, these crises have been further aggravated through the re-configuration
and re-systematisation of various forms of social, cultural, political, economic,
racial, geographical, religious and economic violence. With respect to these arguments,
this commentary focuses on how the outbreak of COVID-19 has led to an alarming rise
in racial hatred against the residents of Northeast India in the contemporary era.
Through socio-historically analysing the problematic rise of racial hatred, the commentary
also identifies the various ways through which the pandemic of COVID-19 is not only
functioning as a disease, but also as a “disease” of body-politics and racism.
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| ISSN: | 2516-550X 2516-5518 |