The Testing Database as Pandemic Technology: Reflections on the COVID-19 Response in India

This article examines the COVID-19 response in India, viewing it as deeply enmeshed in the dynamics of the ‘database’ as an emerging technology of governmentality. Databases aim to translate entire populations into units of information abstracted from social identities and local specificities. In th...

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Main Authors: Sreya Dutta Chowdhury, Riona Basu
Format: article
Language:EN
Published: University of Edinburgh Library 2021
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/fe8c3f6eb5004e8cb042a1f4216318a7
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