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SUMMARY:Sociology Seminar Series - Risk in Research: Covid-19 and the poli
 tics of bio-moral marginality on the south Kerala coast (India) - Professo
 r Filippo Osella (University of Sussex)
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DESCRIPTION:Prof Osella’s research has focused on the social mobility of
  low status communities\, socio-religious reform movements\, popular relig
 iosity (Islam and Hinduism in particular)\, labour migration\, gender rela
 tions\, trade and entrepreneurship\, and religious charity. His research e
 xtends from Kerala (India) to Sri Lanka\, Pakistan\, China and various Gul
 f countries in West Asia.  Prof Osella’s current research involving a mu
 lti-disciplinary research team of social scientists\, physical geographers
 \, atmospheric and marine scientists\, and ICT experts seeks to find effec
 tive ways to make small scale artisanal fishers' livelihoods in Kerala mor
 e secure and sustainable by improving safety at sea. He has published exte
 nsively: co-authored monographs [e.g. Men and Masculinities in South India
 \, 2006]\; edited collections [e.g. Migration\, Modernity and Social Trans
 formation in South Asia\; Islam\, Politics and Anthropology\; among others
 ]\; and several journal articles\, most recently with Modern Asian Studies
  (forthcoming)\, titled\, ‘The Unbearable Lightness of Trust: Trade\, Co
 nviviality\, and the Life-world of Indian Export Agents in Yiwu\, China’
 .\n\nProf Osella: "In this talk I reflect on the consequences of COVID-19 
 interventions on coastal communities in south Kerala (India)\, and the res
 ponses of the local population to the latter.  In particular\, I map out t
 he events which led to spontaneous protests in a number of fishing village
 s during the second wave of the epidemic in July 2020.  I will show that w
 hilst during the first wave of the epidemic coastal communities remained s
 upportive of government intervention\, such an initial support begun to wa
 ne as the epidemic unfolded over time and became more aggressive and wides
 pread.  I argue that such a shift in fishing communities’ attitudes was 
 a response not only to the consequences of a more forceful policy of conta
 inment of the epidemic\, but also to a sudden identification of coastal co
 mmunities as the main locus of contagion in the district.  I suggest that 
 the consequent restrictive measures enforced on coastal communities were d
 riven as much by epidemiological concerns as by a media-driven social pani
 c built upon widespread negative stereotypes that have historically worked
  to marginalize\, and even criminalize coastal communities in Kerala.  I d
 eploy the notion of bio-moral marginality to reveal ways through which the
  attribution of specific—and largely stereotyped and negative—physical
  attributes and moral dispositions to the bodies and behaviour of people b
 elonging to fishing coastal communities constituted the ground upon which 
 the social panic concerning the spread of the COVID-19 virus unfolded in s
 outh Kerala\, thus leading to fishers’ militant response."\nSpeakers:\nP
 rofessor Filippo Osella (University of Sussex)
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