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Description:This book explores the experiential and affective dimensions of structural transformation in South Asia through contemporary and historical accounts of life, ageing, illness, and death.The contributions to this book include analyses from various regions in South Asia, and topics discussed uncover how people's experiences of life, ageing, illness, and death are entangled with the technology of governance, biomedicine, neoliberal restructuring and other national/international policies. Structured in three parts - governance, technology, and citizenship; well-being and restructuring of the social; waiting, hesitation, and hope as attitudes in facing the precariousness and fundamental uncertainty of life - the book brings to light the ways in which people face and continue to engage with their own and others' lives cautiously, waveringly, but with a sense of hope.A novel contribution to the study of how people struggle or navigate their lives through the conditions of inequity and precariousness in South Asia, this book will be of interest to researchers studying anthropology, sociology, history, medical and development studies of South Asia, as well as to those interested in cultural and social theory.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Life, Illness, and Death in Contemporary South Asia: Living through the Age of Hope and Precariousness (Routledge New Horizons in South Asian Studies). To get started finding Life, Illness, and Death in Contemporary South Asia: Living through the Age of Hope and Precariousness (Routledge New Horizons in South Asian Studies), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: This book explores the experiential and affective dimensions of structural transformation in South Asia through contemporary and historical accounts of life, ageing, illness, and death.The contributions to this book include analyses from various regions in South Asia, and topics discussed uncover how people's experiences of life, ageing, illness, and death are entangled with the technology of governance, biomedicine, neoliberal restructuring and other national/international policies. Structured in three parts - governance, technology, and citizenship; well-being and restructuring of the social; waiting, hesitation, and hope as attitudes in facing the precariousness and fundamental uncertainty of life - the book brings to light the ways in which people face and continue to engage with their own and others' lives cautiously, waveringly, but with a sense of hope.A novel contribution to the study of how people struggle or navigate their lives through the conditions of inequity and precariousness in South Asia, this book will be of interest to researchers studying anthropology, sociology, history, medical and development studies of South Asia, as well as to those interested in cultural and social theory.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Life, Illness, and Death in Contemporary South Asia: Living through the Age of Hope and Precariousness (Routledge New Horizons in South Asian Studies). To get started finding Life, Illness, and Death in Contemporary South Asia: Living through the Age of Hope and Precariousness (Routledge New Horizons in South Asian Studies), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Life, Illness, and Death in Contemporary South Asia: Living through the Age of Hope and Precariousness (Routledge New Horizons in South Asian Studies)

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