COVID-19 Assemblages

Niharika Banerjea is Associate Professor in the School of Liberal Studies at Ambedkar University Delhi.Paul Boyce is Reader in Anthropology at the University of Sussex.Rohit K Dasgupta is a Senior Lecturer in Cultural Industries at the University of Glasgow and Commissioner for Social Integration and Equalities in the London Borough of Newham.

• Notes on the ContributorsForeword by Jasbir K. PuarAcknowledgementsI: IntroductionNiharika Banerjea, Paul Boyce and Rohit K DasguptaII: Testaments, Memories, Epistemic Terrains 1 LoomingSanta Khurai2 Transnational Entanglements of Geopolitical, Pandemic and Intimate CitizenshipDhiren Borisa and Gavin Brown3 House maids, Urban Spacing and Negotiating the ‘Other’ During Covid Times Amrita Ghosh4 Reimaging the Migrant in the Time of the PandemicDarshana S. Mini and Anirban K. Baishya5 The Forbidden Word _ the life during COVID 19Moshfec Ara6 Fragmented Realities of the Pandemic: The Multiple Marginalities of Disabled People in IndiaNandini Ghosh7 Desi Woman and Higher Education in the UK: Affect and Effect of Covid-19 Rittika Dasgupta and Naseeba Umar8 Queer Patchworks: Liveability, Creative Work and Survival in the time of COVIDRohit K Dasgupta9 Untitled: I Am Still Becoming[Kya title bolon? Main tho abhi bhi badal rahan hoon]Tripta Chandola 10 Remembering COVID-19Paul Boyce and Raina Roy11 Metaphor of contagion: The impact of Covid-19 on the Hijras in BangladeshAdnan HossainIII: Un-belonging, Survival, Resistance 12 Stateless Beings Danny Coyle13 The Pandemic and Us – Thoughts on Queer Living and Building Social Connections Poushali, Madhurima, Koyel, Reshmi, Archee, Kolika, Debika14 Queer in Transit – (Un)settlement and Precarity in Times of COVID-19Debjyoti Ghosh15 From #dalitlivesmatters to #mysatyagraha: Nepali Transnational Youth Activism during the Covid-19 pandemicPremila van Ommen16 Pandemic Life of Sexual and Gender Minorities of Sri LankaThiyagaraja Waradas17 Virus that Does not Discriminate but a System that Does: Gender [X] Pakistan Hena Ali and Rubban Shakeel 18 A Home-in-Making: Risk, Longing and Responsibility in LockdownNiharika Banerjea and Sumita Beethi19 Of Epidemics and Queer Friendships from Manipur in India. Kumam Davidson20 UntitledQueer Rights Collective, NepalIndex

'COVID-19 Assemblages provides timely and critical insight on how the pandemic has produced incisive scholarship on gender, sexuality and health during a global crisis. Bringing together a broad range of interdisciplinary scholarship the book sheds important light on the struggle to find the means to represent intimacy, collaboration and empowerment during a time of enforced social distancing, alienation and isolation.'Joseph Alter, Professor of Anthropology, University of Pittsburgh.'COVID-19 Assemblages is one of the first anthologies that examines the pandemic ethnographically. Offering a remarkable set of quotidian and critical perspectives on the severely exacerbated modes of stratification and precarity that ordinary people have met with extraordinary grace, this book is a testament to unfolding possibilities of ethnographic critique and patchwork assemblages deployed through the prism of queer feminism.' Svati Shah, Associate Professor of Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies, University of Massachusetts Amherst.