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Of the (im)mobility regime in India: the post-COVID medicalisation of mobilities
Contemporary South Asia ( IF 1.093 ) Pub Date : 2021-02-17 , DOI: 10.1080/09584935.2021.1886251
Neha Gupta 1 , Avishek Ray 1
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ABSTRACT

In this paper, we examine how the Indian welfare-capitalist state, in responding to the pandemic in diverse ways, has appealed to the ‘guilt conscience’ and played on the vexed positionality of the mobile elite, who following the pandemic, have to give up their freedom of mobility. We argue that the very condition of political legibility of the mobile subject is predicated upon the ethico-moral ideal of the ‘good citizen’, who, in the statist imagination, ought to not only feel guilty but also compromise their civil liberties in questions of mobility. Under this quasi-medical dispensation, all mobilities become transgressive acts, while the implementation of the prevailing immobility regime depends more on the good citizen’s ethico-moral imperative than any discourses of legality or pathology.



中文翻译:

印度的(不动)机动性制度:COVID 后的机动性医疗化

摘要

在本文中,我们研究了印度福利资本主义国家如何以多种方式应对大流行病,如何诉诸“内疚良知”并利用流动精英的恼怒地位,他们在大流行之后不得不给予提高他们的行动自由。我们认为,流动主体的政治易读性的条件是建立在“好公民”的伦理道德理想之上的,在国家主义者的想象中,他们不仅应该感到内疚,而且应该在以下问题上妥协他们的公民自由流动性。在这种准医疗制度下,所有的流动都变成了违法行为,而盛行的固定制度的实施更多地取决于好公民的伦理道德要求,而不是任何合法性或病态的话语。

更新日期:2021-02-17
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