Governing the Crisis

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Dr Rahul Ranjan is writer and Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Environmental and Climate Justice at the Department of Human Geography, School of Geosciences, University of Edinburgh. He is the author of "The Political Life of Memory: Birsa Munda in Contemporary India", which was published by the Cambridge University Press in 2023, and edited a volume, "At the crossroads of Rights", published by Routledge Press, London, 2022. Between 2020-2023, he held an appointment as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow to work on the project: "Riverine Rights: The Currents and Consequences of Legal Innovations on The Rights of Rivers", funded by the Norwegian Research Council in Oslo, Norway.

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This book presents a multidimensional approach to understanding the effects of COVID-19 on the lifeworld of the marginalized communities in India.

The volume will greatly interest scholars and researchers in governance, medical anthropology, public policy, politics, sociology, and South Asian studies.

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Introduction Part I: Law, Biomedical Emergencies and Policy Response 1. Policing the Margins: Citizen-Police Interactions in India during Covid-19 2. India's Fumbled COVID-19 Vaccine Policy 3. The Task Before Rebuilding: COVID-19 Second Wave in Jharkhand, Impact and Responses Part II: Migration, Indigeneity, and Cultural Impact 4. Navigating Medical Neglect and Care: COVID-19 Management and Adivasi Societies 5. Intersections of Covid-19 within Nomadic Lives: Nation-State Machinations & Pastoralism within the Gujjar & Bakarwal Tribe of Jammu and Kashmir 6. Covid-19 and the Indigenous Migrants' Question in Urban India 7. Mobile Theatre of Assam: The COVID-19 Pandemic, Challenges, and Responses Part III: Frontline Workers, Caste Dynamics and Labour Force 8. The Last of Frontline Workers: Casteism and Precarity among Sanitation and Waste Workers during COVID-19 9. COVID and Other Crises: Brick Kiln Workers and the Dismal Work-Season of 2019-20 10. Community Resilience in the Western Himalayas: Lessons from the Pandemic