Pandemic Fissures - COVID-19, Dehumanisation, and the Obsolescence of Freedom in India

This book analyses India's response to COVID-19, using an intersectional framework that highlights the roles of the central government, regional governments, and community organisations, both formal and informal. The volume brings forward the immense potential embedded within collective communitarian formations by exploring themes such as disaster capitalism, municipal socialism, civic capitalism, apocalypse or disaster communism, and Marxist humanism in relation to the management strategies exhibited by the Indian government towards the COVID-19 pandemic. It underscores the necessity for imagining a scenario where egalitarian and socially just policies replace the dominance of capitalism.
Part of the Academics, Politics and Society in the Post-COVID World series, the book will be an essential read for scholars and researchers of sociology, political studies, cultural studies, social anthropology, South Asia studies, pandemic studies, and postcolonial studies.

List of contents

Acknowledgements x List of Abbreviations xi Introduction 1 1 India and the Unequal Pandemic 27 2 The Monstrosity of Disasters under Capitalism 67 3 Pandemics of Capitalism and Everyday Disasters 115 4 Benefits and Pitfalls of Local Governance during Apocalyptic Times 161 5 Radical Possibilities of the Apocalyptic Times 206 6 Morbidities of Disaster Civility 258 Conclusion 311 Index 345

About the author

Suddhabrata Deb Roy is a PhD Candidate at the University of Otago, New Zealand.

Product details

• Authors: Roy Suddhabrata Deb
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 26.12.2025
• EAN: 9781032825670
• ISBN: 978-1-032-82567-0
• No. of pages: 358
• Series: Academics, Politics and Society in the Post-Covid World
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); History, Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, Cultural Studies, Economics, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, Politics & government, Humanities, Regional Studies, Politics and government, Regional / International studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Urban communities, Indian sub-continent, Covid;pandemic;capitalism;morbidities, Urban communities / city life