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"This book is a collective journal of the COVID-19 pandemic. With first-hand accounts of the pandemic as it unfolded, it explores the social and the political through the lens of the outbreak. Featuring contributors located in India, USA, Brazil, UK, Germany, and Bulgaria, the book presents us with simultaneous, multiple histories of our time. The volume documents the beginning of social distancing and lockdown measures adopted by countries around the word and analyses how these bore upon prevailing social conditions in specific locations. It presents the authors' personal observations in a lucid conversational style as they reflect on themes such as the reorganization of political debates and issues, the experience of the marginalized, theodicy, government policy responses, and shifts into digital space under lockdown, all of these under an overarching narrative of the healthcare and economic crisis facing the world. A unique and engaging contribution, this book will be useful to students and researchers of sociology, public health, political economy, public policy, and comparative politics. It will also appeal to general readers interested in pandemic literature"--

Introduction: Theme, method, terms, and structure -- Part 1: Top-down -- Experiments in slums, 1999-2006 -- From 'informal sector' to 'financial inclusion', 2004-2014 -- "Financial inclusion' initiatives, 2014-2017 -- Part 2: On the ground -- Domestic workers and the performance hierarchy -- Domestic workers and technology -- Conclusion: Slippages.

"Digital India and The Poor examines how the poor are evoked in contemporary Indian political discourse. It studies the ways in which the disadvantaged are accounted for in the increasingly digitized political economy, commercial and public policy, media, and academic research. This book: Interrogates the category of the poor in India and how they have come to be classified in economic and policy documents over the past few decades; Explores the influential digital education technology 'experiments' conducted in Indian slums from the late 1990s, now popularly known as the 'hole-in-the-wall experiments'; Discusses financial inclusion initiatives, predominantly as they converged between 2014 and 2017, such as the Jan Dhan Yojana, the Aadhaar Project, and the banknote demonetisation; Presents a close study of the bearing of technology on domestic employment in India. The book will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of South Asian studies, politics, political science and sociology, technology studies, linguistics and development studies"--

Part I: Philosophical methods and capitalist processes: means, definitions, intentions. 1. The evasiveness of corporate capitalism ; 2. The political state ; 3. The capitalist corporation ; 4. The contradictions of capitalism ; 5. Intentional systems -- Part II: Reasons, causes and practices in contemporary corporate capitalism. 6. Classical sociology and managerialism ; 7. Management discourses ; 8. The macro issues behind executive pay ; 9. Corporatism and the corporate capitalist state ; 10. Corporate capitalist states and international relations -- Part III: The disabled political will and anti-political philosophy. 11. The mechanics of disablement ; 12. The anti-political self-defeat of Mannheim ; 13. Popper's anti-political philosophical tendencies ; 14. Hayek and the mature anti-political philosophy ; 15. Nozick's anti-political philosophy ; 16. Fukuyama's anti-political philosophy ; 17. The need for rational utopian thinking

A new kind of "international terrorism" -- "International terrorism" as a media event -- Terrorism as war/War against terrorism -- "War against international terrorism" in abstractions -- "War against international terrorism" as military action -- Happenings and unthinkingness

Presents a critique of social constructionist identity politics, which is distinguished from identity-based political positions. This book examines the institutionalization of social constructionist identity politics in literary studies, considering the role of self-announcements in critical writing, theory textbooks, and notions of canonicity

Abstract This paper presents some conceptual observations on how the condition of poverty is brought to public attention and discussed, i.e. on mediations of poverty. It is proposed that such mediation is largely monopolised by those who are not-poor, though attempts to describe the not-poor as a category call for circumspection. As such, mediations are based on preconceptions which are seldom examined carefully. These preconceptions are dubbed phenomenal bases here, and three are outlined in general terms: poverty as experience, visible poverty, and poverty in abstract. A final section considers 'fear of poverty' as a pervasive idea, and speculates on the possibility of approaching political economy accordingly.