@article{ref1,
title="The "living dead" within "death-worlds": gender crisis and covid-19 in India",
journal="Gender, work and organization",
year="2020",
author="Chakraborty, Debadrita",
volume="ePub",
number="ePub",
pages="ePub-ePub",
abstract="The onset of the covid-19 pandemic and the ensuing lockdown have not only impacted  the political, structural, and economic systems in India but have also engendered  the growing rift between the poor and the rich, the upper and the lower classes, and  the rural and the urban sections of the population. Within the nation's marginalized  category, it is women who have suffered most forms of oppression. Having held a  subordinate position to their male counterparts within the gender hierarchy, Indian  women since the colonial times have had to bear systemic oppression at the hands of  the state, caste, class, gender, and religious hegemons. During the pandemic, for  women such forms of subordination were followed by socioeconomic uncertainties  resulting from the economic shutdown, loss of jobs, and labor oppressions. Gender  disparities resulting from class, caste and minority marginalization during the  pandemic crisis have further widened the socio-cultural, economic, and political  inequalities within the country. Taking cue from the gender crisis in India  catalyzed by the pandemic and the ensuing lockdown, in this study, I aim to explore  India's &quot;unequal&quot; transition to the post covid-19 world order, studying gender  inequality, violence and injustices from biopolitical and necropolitical lens. The  framework of biopolitics and necropolitics, formulated by Foucault and Mbembe  respectively have made significant contributions (following the pandemic outbreak)  toward understanding how the state and social mechanisms of power that ideally  should administer and foster life, guaranteeing health. and productivity of  populations is currently pushing them into precarious living situations and  conferring upon them the status of &quot;living-dead&quot;.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0968-6673",
doi="10.1111/gwao.12585",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/gwao.12585"
}