Hematologies

In this ground-breaking account of the political economy and cultural meaning of blood in contemporary India, Jacob Copeman and Dwaipayan Banerjee examine how the giving and receiving of blood has shaped social and political life. Hematologies traces how the substance congeals political ideologies,...

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Main Authors: Copeman, Jacob, Banerjee, Dwaipayan
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Language:English
Published: Cornell University Press 2023
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description In this ground-breaking account of the political economy and cultural meaning of blood in contemporary India, Jacob Copeman and Dwaipayan Banerjee examine how the giving and receiving of blood has shaped social and political life. Hematologies traces how the substance congeals political ideologies, biomedical rationalities, and activist practices. Using examples from anti-colonial appeals to blood sacrifice as a political philosophy to contemporary portraits of political leaders drawn with blood, from the use of the substance by Bhopali children as a material of activism to biomedical anxieties and aporias about the excess and lack of donation, Hematologies broaches how political life in India has been shaped through the use of blood and through contestations about blood. As such, the authors offer new entryways into thinking about politics and economy through a "bloodscape of difference": different sovereignties; different proportionalities; and different temporalities. These entryways allow the authors to explore the relation between blood's utopic flows and political clottings as it moves through time and space, conjuring new kinds of social collectivities while reanimating older forms, and always in a reflexive relation to norms that guide its proper flow.
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-991212025-07-17T12:15:17Z Hematologies Copeman, Jacob Banerjee, Dwaipayan political substances, Hindu nationalism, Hindutva and blood, Medical anthropology blood, Blood donation in South Asia, Religious Nationalism thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MB Medicine: general issues::MBS Medical sociology thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MB Medicine: general issues::MBS Medical sociology In this ground-breaking account of the political economy and cultural meaning of blood in contemporary India, Jacob Copeman and Dwaipayan Banerjee examine how the giving and receiving of blood has shaped social and political life. Hematologies traces how the substance congeals political ideologies, biomedical rationalities, and activist practices. Using examples from anti-colonial appeals to blood sacrifice as a political philosophy to contemporary portraits of political leaders drawn with blood, from the use of the substance by Bhopali children as a material of activism to biomedical anxieties and aporias about the excess and lack of donation, Hematologies broaches how political life in India has been shaped through the use of blood and through contestations about blood. As such, the authors offer new entryways into thinking about politics and economy through a "bloodscape of difference": different sovereignties; different proportionalities; and different temporalities. These entryways allow the authors to explore the relation between blood's utopic flows and political clottings as it moves through time and space, conjuring new kinds of social collectivities while reanimating older forms, and always in a reflexive relation to norms that guide its proper flow. 2023-04-18T09:46:21Z 2023-04-18T09:46:21Z 2023-03-29T15:51:50Z 2019 book ONIX_20230329_9781501745102_158 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/62175 9781501745102 9781501761683 9781501745096 9781501745119 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/99121 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/62175/1/9781501745102.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/62175/1/9781501745102.pdf Cornell University Press Cornell University Press 10.7298/h2js-2t17 10.7298/h2js-2t17 05937e7b-c222-4680-9580-c09c5ce7a11e National Endowment for the Humanities 0314e571-4102-4526-b014-3ed8f2d6750a 9781501745102 9781501761683 9781501745096 9781501745119 Cornell University Press 288 Ithaca [...] CARES open access
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