{"product_id":"hematologies-9781501761683","title":"Hematologies","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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. \u003ci\u003eHematologies\u003c\/i\u003e traces how the substance congeals political ideologies, biomedical rationalities, and activist practices.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUsing 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, \u003ci\u003eHematologies\u003c\/i\u003e 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e 1. Bloodscape of Difference\u003cbr\u003e 2. Sovereignty and Blood\u003cbr\u003e 3. Substantial Activisms\u003cbr\u003e 4. Hemo Economicus: From Blood Sacrifice to Blood Science?\u003cbr\u003e 5. The Broken World of Transfusion\u003cbr\u003e 6. Blood in the Time of the Civic\u003cbr\u003e 7. Hematic Futures\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e References\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48867346579799,"sku":"9781501761683","price":20.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781501761683.jpg?v=1722282905","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/hematologies-9781501761683","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}