Description
Book SynopsisIn 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 temporal
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
1. Bloodscape of Difference
2. Sovereignty and Blood
3. Substantial Activisms
4. Hemo Economicus: From Blood Sacrifice to Blood Science?
5. The Broken World of Transfusion
6. Blood in the Time of the Civic
7. Hematic Futures
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