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The Second Wave

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Lessons in resilience in the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic in India. Focusing on the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic in India between April and December 2021, Rustom Bharucha's timely essay reflects on four interconnected realities that haunted this ongoing crisis-death, grief, mourning, and extinction. How do we cope with multiple deaths and the dislocation of rituals when the act of mourning is either postponed or denied? What roles do political surveillance, censorship, the regulation of lockdowns, and the sheer indifference to the lives of people play in the containment of civil liberties? Through vivid examples of photography, theater, dance, visual arts, and the cultures of everyday life, this meditative essay illuminates both the horror of the pandemic as well as its unexpected intimacies and revelations of shared suffering. Against the destruction of nature and the disrespect for the nonhuman, The Second Wave offers lessons in resilience through its reflections [...]on the ethos of waiting and the need to re-envision breath as a vital resource of self-renewal and resistance.
Request Code : ZLIB.IO17755199
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Year:
2022
Publisher:
Chicago Distribution Center (CDC Presses)
Language:
English
ISBN 10:
1803091010
ISBN 13:
9781803091013
ISBN:
9781803091013, 1803091010

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