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oapen-20.500.12657-621752024-03-27T14:14:47Z 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 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. 2023-03-29T15:51:50Z 2023-03-29T15:51:50Z 2019 book ONIX_20230329_9781501745102_158 9781501745102 9781501761683 9781501745096 9781501745119 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/62175 eng application/pdf application/epub+zip Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9781501745102.pdf 9781501745119.epub http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501745096/hematologies Cornell University Press Cornell University Press 10.7298/h2js-2t17 10.7298/h2js-2t17 06a447d4-1d09-460f-8b1d-3b4b09d64407 0314e571-4102-4526-b014-3ed8f2d6750a 9781501745102 9781501761683 9781501745096 9781501745119 Cornell University Press 288 Ithaca [...] CARES National Endowment for the Humanities NEH open access
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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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