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dc.contributor.authorJagannathan, Srinath
dc.contributor.authorRai, Rajnish
dc.date.accessioned2021-10-17T12:31:02Z
dc.date.available2021-10-17T12:31:02Z
dc.date.issued2021-05-29
dc.identifier.citationJagannathan S, Rai R. The necropolitics of neoliberal state response to the Covid-19 pandemic in India. Organization. May 2021. doi:10.1177/13505084211020195en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1177%2F13505084211020195
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11718/24386
dc.description.abstractWe draw from the experience of the Covid-19 pandemic in India to outline that the neoliberal consolidation of the state is enabled by precariousness, violence, and inequality in overlapping planes of marginality. The pandemic showed the abysmal state of public health institutions in India as people experienced an erosion of dignity in both life and death. The harsh and sudden lockdown announced by the Indian state rendered workers jobless, hungry, exhausted, and on the borders of death. Instead of providing social security to workers, the state embarked on a neoliberal agenda of deregulation, weakening job security, and collective bargaining legislation. The state enacted a violent discourse of Hindu nationalism to blame Muslims for the spread of the pandemic in India to deflect attention from its abdication of responsibility in making healthcare and social security available to vulnerable segments of the Indian population. The neoliberal policy response of the state during the pandemic was embedded in the necropolitics of protecting the middle class and elite lives while directing structural violence against the working class and Muslims, making their lives disposable.en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherSAGE Publicationsen_US
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dc.subjectCovid-19en_US
dc.subjectHindu nationalismen_US
dc.subjectNecropoliticsen_US
dc.subjectNeoliberalismen_US
dc.subjectPrecariousnessen_US
dc.titleThe necropolitics of neoliberal state response to the Covid-19 pandemic in Indiaen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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