Volume 11 - Volume 11
From Patterns to Freefall: Exposing the Vulnerability of Human Predicament in the Times of the Pandemic
Abstract
COVID-19 demands a paradigm shift in modes of human interaction and challenges hegemonic
social structures to adapt and evolve themselves to the altered reality of human existence. Across the
world, these shifts have been triggered by the new social order threatening to erase existing social
systems. My paper attempts to look at the lives of the precariats, caught up within neoliberal
structures, assuming these structures to be hegemonic normative systems, and the manner in which
they refuse to change, thereby putting the precariats into a more exploitative crisis situation,
dehumanizing them, demonizing them, thereby risking their erasure from the socio-political and legal
systems that rule the world. I have used the context of India to substantiate my argument. My paper is
divided into the following sections: a reading into the concept of precarity and contextualizing it in
the neoliberal framework, analysing the pandemic against precarity using examples from Indian
society.
Paper Details
PaperID: 2646
Author's Name: Dr. Swapna Gopinath
Volume: Volume 11
Issues: Volume 11
Keywords: Precarity, Vulnerability, Epidemic, India, Othering.
Year: 2021
Month: December
Pages: 5889-5896