The Occupied Clinic
Militarism and Care in Kashmir
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2020
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4780-0992-4 (ISBN)
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4780-0992-4 (ISBN)
Saiba Varma explores spaces of military and humanitarian care in Indian-controlled Kashmir—the world's most militarized place—to examine the psychic, ontological, and political entanglements between medicine and violence.
In The Occupied Clinic, Saiba Varma explores the psychological, ontological, and political entanglements between medicine and violence in Indian-controlled Kashmir—the world's most densely militarized place. Into a long history of occupations, insurgencies, suppressions, natural disasters, and a crisis of public health infrastructure come interventions in human distress, especially those of doctors and humanitarians, who struggle against an epidemic: more than sixty percent of the civilian population suffers from depression, anxiety, PTSD, or acute stress. Drawing on encounters between medical providers and patients in an array of settings, Varma reveals how colonization is embodied and how overlapping state practices of care and violence create disorienting worlds for doctors and patients alike. Varma shows how occupation creates worlds of disrupted meaning in which clinical life is connected to political disorder, subverting biomedical neutrality, ethics, and processes of care in profound ways. By highlighting the imbrications between humanitarianism and militarism and between care and violence, Varma theorizes care not as a redemptive practice, but as a fraught sphere of action that is never quite what it seems.
In The Occupied Clinic, Saiba Varma explores the psychological, ontological, and political entanglements between medicine and violence in Indian-controlled Kashmir—the world's most densely militarized place. Into a long history of occupations, insurgencies, suppressions, natural disasters, and a crisis of public health infrastructure come interventions in human distress, especially those of doctors and humanitarians, who struggle against an epidemic: more than sixty percent of the civilian population suffers from depression, anxiety, PTSD, or acute stress. Drawing on encounters between medical providers and patients in an array of settings, Varma reveals how colonization is embodied and how overlapping state practices of care and violence create disorienting worlds for doctors and patients alike. Varma shows how occupation creates worlds of disrupted meaning in which clinical life is connected to political disorder, subverting biomedical neutrality, ethics, and processes of care in profound ways. By highlighting the imbrications between humanitarianism and militarism and between care and violence, Varma theorizes care not as a redemptive practice, but as a fraught sphere of action that is never quite what it seems.
Saiba Varma is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, San Diego.
Map viii
Note on Transliteration ix
Acknowledgments xi
Letter to No One xv
Introduction. Care 1
1. Siege 32
2. A Disturbed Area 67
Interlude. The Disappeared 101
3. Shock 114
4. Debrief 144
5. Gratitude 167
Notes 201
Bibliography 253
Index 273
| Erscheinungsdatum | 11.09.2020 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 28 illustrations |
| Verlagsort | North Carolina |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 567 g |
| Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4780-0992-6 / 1478009926 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4780-0992-4 / 9781478009924 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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