Contagion, containment, communalism Contested citizenships in the times of COVID

Borisa, Dhiren and Brown, Gavin (2022) Contagion, containment, communalism Contested citizenships in the times of COVID. In: COVID-19 Assemblages: Queer and Feminist Ethnographies from South Asia. Taylor and Francis, London, pp. 17-24. ISBN 9781003262251

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Abstract

The landscapes of our desires situated in structures that violate us are multi-sited and deep-rooted. In one of his public addresses, the Prime Minister demanded the country to bang plates to shoo away the virus, and people happily complied in the national interest. The patriarchal casteist nation is irked when it sees women taking over streets and claiming their rights, worse, when they are Muslim women conveniently framed within the global Islamophobic narrative as the repressed that need saving. The State suggests that they might be influenced, misguided by external forces, erasing at that moment any agency from these women. The sit-in at the Jafrabad metro station coincided with Trump’s visit to India, making the situation worse. The state machinery was deployed to disrupt the political mobilizations. While Trump racialized COVID-19 in his press briefings and tweets, naming it ‘Chinese’, in India, the virus had a religion.

Item Type: Book Section
Subjects: Social Sciences and humanities > Social Sciences > Social Sciences (General)
JGU School/Centre: Jindal Global Law School
Depositing User: Amees Mohammad
Date Deposited: 01 May 2023 07:41
Last Modified: 01 May 2023 08:10
Official URL: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.432...
URI: https://pure.jgu.edu.in/id/eprint/5896

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