The Long Walk

The Long Walk

Pramod K. Nayar

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 memes and jokes about being under ‘lockdown’, barricaded-in and homebound across the world. An immobility regime dominates now with cancelled airline, bus and train services. Yet, the same regime has generated an extreme mobility in nations like India, particularly in cities like New Delhi....

2020

10.5617/jea.7856

Epidemiology and Health

Korean Society of Epidemiology

Ethnology. Social and cultural anthropology