Overview
- Offers a wide array of perspectives on the pressing issue of inequality in South Asia
- Presents the most detailed ethnographic account of how reservation inequalities impede well-being
- Examines inequality through the lens of economic prosperity and poverty
Part of the book series: People, Cultures and Societies: Exploring and Documenting Diversities (PCSEDD)
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Table of contents (19 chapters)
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Institutional Exclusions
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COVID-19 Disparities
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About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Stephen Christopher completed a Ph.D. in anthropology from Syracuse University in 2018, specializing in Himalayan tribal ethnicity and refugee politics. In 2019, he was JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow at Kyoto University. From 2022–24, he is a Marie Curie postdoctoral researcher at the University of Copenhagen. He is the Himalayas Editor at the Database of Religious History at the University of British Columbia. He has taught at Beijing Normal University, Vietnam National University, University of Bremen, Pitt in the Himalayas, Syracuse University, Semester at Sea and Tokyo Metropolitan University.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Caste, COVID-19, and Inequalities of Care
Book Subtitle: Lessons from South Asia
Editors: Sanghmitra S. Acharya, Stephen Christopher
Series Title: People, Cultures and Societies: Exploring and Documenting Diversities
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-6917-0
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-16-6916-3Published: 02 March 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-16-6919-4Published: 03 March 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-981-16-6917-0Published: 01 March 2022
Series ISSN: 2662-6616
Series E-ISSN: 2662-6624
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 394
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 16 illustrations in colour
Topics: Social Care, Public Health, Social Structure, Social Inequality