Biopolitics from Below : Crisis, Conjuncture, Rupture.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Samaddar, Ranabir.

Series:

CEU Press Perspectives Series

Language:

English

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (183 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Central European University Press, 2025.

Summary:

The current social turmoil enveloping the world has produced knee jerk reactions and a plethora of policy declarations. At the same time, the scenario is marked with response of those with low socioeconomic status to the worldwide chaos and precarious living conditions. In this context, how do we make sense of what is being described variously as a breakdown of democracy, its exhaustion, and the new challenges in the form of an alternative politics of life or a phenomenon that we may term as "biopolitics from below"? The theme of the book is crisis, conjuncture, and rupture. It relates to the question of correlation of social and political forces in the emergence of certain events, presents certain events as illustrations, and takes a historiographical-analytical route to argue why certain things happen in the way they happen. Usually, crisis is the explanatory factor. This book seeks to go deeper and find out why some crises and not all produce unexpected outcomes. Or, as this book puts it differently, the essential gradient of a crisis is the correlation of forces at a particular time - and thus the question of conjuncture. The book seeks to open up to new adventures in thought, imagining new openings, and creating exits from the situation we find ourselves in.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Notes 123

Spectral Worldmaking-a Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgements

Conjuncture, Crisis, and Biopolitics from Below

India in 1971: Crisis, Conjuncture, and the Entry of People in Biopolitics

Passive Revolution

The Link between Crisis and Conjuncture

The Theme of Conjuncture

The Theme of Crisis

The Gray World of Biopolitics from Below

Contingencies Shape Themes of Biopolitics

Gray Histories of Biopolitics from Below

Fractured Geography of the City and Biopolitics from Below

Logistical Labor, Migrant Workers, and the Physicality of Life

Strategic Dimension of Biopolitics from Below

The Argument So Far

Covid-19, Multiple Crises, and the Biopolitical Response

Practical Ethics: Solidarity, Care, Protection, and Responsibility

A New Kind of Public Power

Conclusion

Notes

Index.

Notes:

"Amsterdam University Press"

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ISBN:

1-003-71854-X

963-386-817-3

963-386-818-1

9781003718543

OCLC:

1504046865