Covid-19 in India, Disease, Health and Culture

Can Wellness be Far Behind?

Anindita Chatterjee, Nilanjana Chatterjee

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English

Routledge
26 August 2024

Literary studies: general; Regional studies; Society & culture: general; Regional geography

Series: Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series

This book is a cultural exploration of health and wellness, with a focus on impacts of Covid-19 on the population of India.

The chapters in this book present original research, systematic reviews, theoretical and conceptual frameworks, encompassing multidisciplinary, inter- and intra-disciplinary fields of study, in the context of how culture and disease sufficiently unpack and inform each other. The book includes contributions from the social sciences and the humanities and analyses issues that range from smallpox to the history of vaccine, indigenous healing practices, the Macbeth paradigm, Zizekian encounters, mental asylum, and marginalised genders. Using the theme of intellectual interconnectedness in the times of self-isolation and social distancing, the book is a collaboration of critical thinkers who identify and visibilize the hidden global issues related to ‘disease’ and ‘health’ that have divided the world into narrow binaries – individual/society, poor/rich, proletariat/bourgeoisie, margin/centre, colonised/coloniser, servitude/liberty, powerless/powerful. By doing so, the book emphasises the potential of holistic wellness to improve human life and humanity across the globe.

A novel contribution on the cultural factors that played an important role in contemporary times of Covid-19, this book will be of interest to researchers in the fields of Cultural Studies, Health and Society and South Asian Studies.

Edited by: Anindita Chatterjee, Nilanjana Chatterjee
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 490g
ISBN: 9781032292700
ISBN 10: 1032292709
Series: Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series
Pages: 248
Publication Date: 26 August 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Anindita Chatterjee is Associate Professor and Head in the Department of English, Durgapur Government College, India. Her research interests centre on British Literature of the Romantic and the Victorian Period, Indian Writing in English, Films, Gender Studies and Popular Culture, and she has published on Socialist Ecofeminism. She has also co-edited Re-theorising the Indian Subcontinental Diaspora: Old and New Directions. Nilanjana Chatterjee is Assistant Professor of English, Durgapur Government College, India. She is the author of Reading Jhumpa Lahiri: Women, Domesticity and the Indian American Diaspora (Routledge, forthcoming). Some of her ongoing projects include work on Angami Kire’s formation of digital ethnic identity and on women and natural resource management in Naga folktales and stories. She has co-edited Re-theorising the Indian Subcontinental Diaspora: Old and New Directions.