Jesus & Mary College

Online ISSN: 2456-9550

Publishing Frequency: Annual

Publisher: Jesus and Mary CollegeTHE JMC REVIEW

An Interdisciplinary Social Science Journal of Criticism, Practice and TheoryThe JMC Review is an interdisciplinary refereed e-journal published annually by Jesus and Mary College, University of Delhi. It is a journal of criticism, practice and theory. It covers a range of disciplines including anthropology, cultural studies, economics, education, english studies, history, international relations, philosophy, political science, psychology and sociology. Its aim is to provide an interdisciplinary platform for scholarly debates and exchange of ideas. As of date, the e-journal has published four volumes since 2017.The 2021 (volume five) is centered on the theme, ‘Pandemics, People, Politics: Challenges and Futures’. The current COVID-19 crisis has been one of the impactful disruptors in recent times, and its effects have been global and diverse. This disruption has been felt across all across the world in everyday forms of life, but has also highlighted the global inequalities and fissures, especially in increased violences in the form of state repressions, inadequacies in health care, gendered wages, care work and unemployment, domestic abuse, trauma and a public mental health crisis. The pandemic, while itself an ongoing crisis, has produced and amplified multiple social and political emergencies worldwide, in conjunction with the planetary and ecological disaster of what is now termed the Anthropocene. This interconnected and intersectional nature of the current challenges necessitates the need for scholars, thinkers, practitioners across disciplines to share their thoughts, ideas and learnings, and to create new lines of collective flight (Deleuze and Guattari), especially from the parts of world facing political and social intensities.The current volume therefore focuses on the pandemic not only as a global health crisis, but also on the political economy of pandemics in general, and how they impact broader challenges especially relating to the postcolony, magnified by the rise of populist and authoritarian tendencies, legal frameworks and carceralities, state surveillance and military interventions, the decline of democratic rights, climate and planetary disruptions, and challenges to people’s power, and other connected implications of the pandemic and its ongoing impacts on livelihood, cultures, and consumption.