Thinking through complex webs of potency

MAT, Medicine Anthropology Theory Early Tibetan medical responses to the emerging coronavirus epidemic: Notes from a field visit to Dharamsala, India — Barbara Gerke The epidemic of COVID-19 caused by…

Worship and the virus in Hindu India

Approaching Religion The religious responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in Hindu India were manifold and, at times, publicly contested, which raises the question of which societal differences became visible and…

Neoliberalism and the Opportunodemic

Journal of Extreme Anthropology It would be far too unkind to suggest that academics and journalists have presented the COVID-19 pandemic in isolation from its broader economic context. However, it…

On the Spectacle of Walking

Journal of Extreme Anthropology Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, in the face of the 21-day nation-wide lockdown imposed in India since 22 March 2020, the migrant worker has become the focal…

The Long Walk

Journal of Extreme Anthropology 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…