Book ID: CBB609444998

Hematologies: The Political Life of Blood in India (2021)

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Jacob Copeman (Author)
Banerjee, Dwaipayan (Author)


Cornell University Press


Publication Date: 2021
Physical Details: 288
Language: English

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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Authors & Contributors
Bangham, Jenny
Antonio Reguera Teba
Linda Palfreeman
John Harriss
Ciliberti, Rosagemma
Arnold, David J.
Concepts
Blood
Blood transfusion
Medicine
Medicine and politics
Public health
Blood donors
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
21st century
20th century, early
17th century
Modern
Places
Spain
India
Great Britain
England
United States
Switzerland
Institutions
Australian Red Cross Society
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