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‘Trust’, Sociality and the Pandemic “信任”、社会性和大流行

Society and Culture in South Asia Pub Date : 2021-01-01 DOI: 10.1177/2393861720984435

Ishita Dey

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The Unwittingly Wilful State Subject: Travelling and Testing in the Terrain of Threat 无意故意状态主体:威胁地形中的旅行与测试

Society and Culture in South Asia Pub Date : 2021-01-01 DOI: 10.1177/2393861720977704

Subhashim Goswami

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Perception of COVID-19 in Bangladesh: Interplays of Class and Capital 孟加拉国对COVID-19的看法:阶级和资本的相互作用

Society and Culture in South Asia Pub Date : 2021-01-01 DOI: 10.1177/2393861720977049

F. Begum

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Policing and the God of Death: Legal–Religious Iconography Amidst COVID-19 警察与死神:新冠疫情中的法律-宗教意象

Society and Culture in South Asia Pub Date : 2021-01-01 DOI: 10.1177/2393861720979891

Pooja Satyogi

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Valuing Variability: Agriculture, Ecology and COVID-19 重视变异性:农业、生态和COVID-19

Society and Culture in South Asia Pub Date : 2021-01-01 DOI: 10.1177/2393861720975222

Richa Kumar

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Reading Remarks on the Foundations of Mathematics in Times of COVID-19: Remarks on the Relationship Between Mathematics and Society 《新冠肺炎时代数学基础述评:数学与社会关系述评

Society and Culture in South Asia Pub Date : 2021-01-01 DOI: 10.1177/2393861720975123

Saumya Malviya

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引用次数: 2

The Virality of Pandemics: Reassembling the Social in the Anthropocene 流行病的病毒性:人类世的社会重组

Society and Culture in South Asia Pub Date : 2021-01-01 DOI: 10.1177/2393861720975115

Subhadeepta Ray

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Redefining Public Health and Life in Occupation? COVID-19 Pandemic in Kashmir 重新定义职业中的公共健康和生活?2019冠状病毒病在克什米尔的流行

Society and Culture in South Asia Pub Date : 2021-01-01 DOI: 10.1177/2393861720977014

Sarbani Sharma

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Book review: Shinjini Das, Vernacular Medicine in Colonial India: Family, Market and Homoeopathy 书评:达斯(Shinjini Das)，《殖民地印度的本土医学:家庭、市场和顺势疗法》

Society and Culture in South Asia Pub Date : 2021-01-01 DOI: 10.1177/2393861720948969

Anuradha Gupta

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Disease and Discrimination in Goa: COVID-19 in the Afterlife of AIDS 果阿邦的疾病和歧视:艾滋病后的COVID-19

Society and Culture in South Asia Pub Date : 2021-01-01 DOI: 10.1177/2393861720975113

R. Ferrão

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