Bu e-kitob haqida
Through a creative and collaborative form of ethnographic writing, the book enters in conversation with the worlds of domestic helps, caregivers, cultural workers, students, sex workers and other precariously employed people. It examines the confining effects of the pandemic on the lived realities of many queer and trans individuals, the caste-oppressed and women across socio-economic backgrounds. The chapters in the volume piece together narratives of prejudice, hardship, self-expression and resistance from interviews, personal accounts, as well as poems and stories from activists, artists and other collaborators. The book pays particular attention to issues of power and asymmetrical relationships amidst COVID-19 and offers critiques to deepen the understanding of the uneven fault lines within which historically oppressed persons reside in South Asia.
Exploring themes of migration, disability and sexual politics, this book is an essential reading for scholars and researchers of gender and sexuality studies, cultural studies, South Asian studies, sociology and social anthropology.
Muallif haqida
Niharika Banerjea is Associate Professor in the School of Liberal Studies at Ambedkar University Delhi.
Paul Boyce is Reader in Anthropology at the University of Sussex.
Rohit K Dasgupta is a Senior Lecturer in Cultural Industries at the University of Glasgow and Commissioner for Social Integration and Equalities in the London Borough of Newham.
