The Politics of Breathing Troubles in COVID-19: Pandemic Inequalities and the Right to Breathe across India and Germany

‘Breathing trouble’ refers both to a biopolitical process and a metaphor for the current global condition. This Position Piece draws inspiration from the ‘universal right to breathe’ frame suggested by Joseph-Achille Mbembe (2021a) to discuss pandemic inequalities in Kolkata (India) from a location...

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Main Author: Nasima Selim
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Edinburgh Library 2022-09-01
Series:Medicine Anthropology Theory
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Online Access:http://www.medanthrotheory.org/article/view/5750