Open AccessThe Long Walk
Author(s) -
Pramod K. Nayar
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of extreme anthropology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2535-3241
DOI - 10.5617/jea.7856
Subject(s) - social distance , covid-19 , isolation (microbiology) , the imaginary , quarantine , pandemic , distancing , social isolation , state (computer science) , sociology , political science , psychology , computer science , virology , medicine , psychoanalysis , disease , pathology , algorithm , outbreak , infectious disease (medical specialty) , microbiology and biotechnology , psychotherapist , biology
The Covid-19 pandemic has made a commonplace of the carceral imaginary. Isolation, social distancing, quarantine have become watchwords. Physician instructions, epidemiologist advice, state orders jostle alongside memes and jokes about being under ‘lockdown’, barricaded-in and homebound across the world. An immobility regime dominates now with cancelled airline, bus and train services. Yet, the same regime has generated an extreme mobility in nations like India, particularly in cities like New Delhi....