{"product_id":"the-second-wave-reflections-on-the-pandemic-through-photography-performance-and-public-culture-9781803090757","title":"The Second Wave – Reflections on the Pandemic","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLessons in resilience in the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic in India.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Focusing on the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic in India between April and December 2021, Rustom Bharucha’s timely essay reflects on four interconnected realities that haunted this ongoing crisis—death, grief, mourning, and extinction. How do we cope with multiple deaths and the dislocation of rituals when the act of mourning is either postponed or denied? What roles do political surveillance, censorship, the regulation of lockdowns, and the sheer indifference to the lives of people play in the containment of civil liberties? Through vivid examples of photography, theater, dance, visual arts, and the cultures of everyday life, this meditative essay illuminates both the horror of the pandemic as well as its unexpected intimacies and revelations of shared suffering. Against the destruction of nature and the disrespect for the nonhuman, \u003ci\u003eThe Second Wave\u003c\/i\u003e offers lessons in resilience through its reflections on the ethos of waiting and the need to re-envision breath as a vital resource of self-renewal and resistance.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"An extraordinarily thoughtful meditation on the depiction of illness, death and displacement, the expression of loss and grief, and the possible positive potential of the pandemic experience for the future.\" * Roughghosts *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Second Wave\u003c\/i\u003e is an unsettling read, deeply personal yet universal, horrifying yet infusing hope in the many acts of self-renewal and resistance during the pandemic. It is a book that merits multiple readings.\" * Biblio *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Second Wave\u003c\/i\u003e is an intellectual tour de force of contemplation on the depredations and consequences of the pandemic in India.\" * The Statesman *\u003cbr\u003e\"Bharucha has certainly provided us the answer to the question ‘How to write about a tragedy?’ What is certain is that the manner in which Bharucha presents the pandemic before us and the fractures within our societies that he exposes, will change the lens the reader looks at the world through. The book would stay with the reader, urging her to keep coming back to it, a phenomenon rare with nonfiction.\" * Contributions to Indian Sociology *\u003cbr\u003e\"Rustom Bharucha brings a poet's attentiveness and a lapidarist’s precision to his analysis of an unforeseen time and India's response to the Covid-induced pandemic.\" -- Jerry Pinto, author of The Education of Yuri\u003cbr\u003e\"Cultural critic and dramaturg Rustom Bharucha’s masterful book takes readers on a trip into the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic in India, with a particular focus on the harrowing days between April and October 2021. . . . Though it might be difficult to imagine finding hope in this scenario, Bharucha does just that—not by denying realities but by identifying in art an unexpected appreciation of what humans are capable of surviving.\" * Choice *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e1. Photography in the Pandemic\u003cbr\u003ePreamble\u003cbr\u003eHospital\u003cbr\u003eCrematoria\u003cbr\u003eGanga \u003cbr\u003eCensoring the pandemic\u003cbr\u003eOwnership\u003cbr\u003eThe Long March\u003cbr\u003eProblematizing duration\u003cbr\u003eRepresenting Jamlo \u003cbr\u003eEthics of crying\u003cbr\u003eIn the eyes of the law\u003cbr\u003e2. No time to Mourn\u003cbr\u003eSymptoms of grief\u003cbr\u003eThe Case of Ram Pukar Pandit\u003cbr\u003eLiving with the dead\u003cbr\u003ePerforming mourning: life and art\u003cbr\u003e“Artistic” mourning practices\u003cbr\u003ea.Artifice\u003cbr\u003eb.Objects\u003cbr\u003ec.Documentary\u003cbr\u003ed.Spectacle\u003cbr\u003e“Rudali”: mourning as survival\u003cbr\u003e“Walk”: mourning as resistance\u003cbr\u003eMourning: performed or real?\u003cbr\u003e3. Endings\/Beginnings\u003cbr\u003eExit\u003cbr\u003eOn the Cusp of Multiple Times\u003cbr\u003eGenocide\u003cbr\u003eExtinction\u003cbr\u003eHiroshima museumized: aporias of peace\u003cbr\u003eThe ethos of waiting\u003cbr\u003eReclaiming the vitality of the body\u003cbr\u003eStillness in movement\u003cbr\u003ea.Prana\u003cbr\u003eb.Oxygen \u003cbr\u003eBreath, breathlessness, and combat breathing\u003cbr\u003ePostscript\u003cbr\u003eNotes","brand":"Seagull Books London Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49412912316759,"sku":"9781803090757","price":18.04,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781803090757.jpg?v=1730518520","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-second-wave-reflections-on-the-pandemic-through-photography-performance-and-public-culture-9781803090757","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}