Viral Loads: Anthropologies of Urgency in the Time of COVID-19
Lenore Manderson, Nancy J. Burke, Ayo Wahlberg, 9781800080256, 9781800080249, 9781800080232, 9781800080263, 9781800080270, 978-1800080256, 978-1800080249, 978-1800080232, 978-1800080263, 978-1800080270
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List of contributors
Acknowledgements
1 Introduction
Part I The power of the state
2 Care in the time of COVID-19
3 Militarising the pandemic
4 Rights, responsibilities andrevelations
Part II Exclusion and blame
5 The 2020 Los Angeles uprisings
6 The biopolitics of COVID-19 in the UK
7 The shroud stealers
8 Unprecedented times? Romanian Roma and discrimination during the COVID-19 pandemic
9 Turkey’s Diyanet and political Islam during the pandemic
10 Citizen vector
Part III Unequal burdens
11 Pandemic policy responses and embodied realities among‘waste-pickers’ in India
12 The amplification effect
13 Vulnerabilities within and beyond the pandemic
14 ‘You are putting my health at risk’
15 Scarcity and resilience in the slums of Dhaka city, Bangladesh
Part IV The reach of care
16 Making do
17 Carescapes unsettled
18 Care within or out of reach
19 Pandemic times in a WhatsApp-ed nation
20 Purity’s dangers
Part V Lessons for a future
21 Fracturing the pandemic
22 Living together in precarious times
23 COVID-19 in Italy
Index