Professional Documents
Culture Documents
OF COVID-19
IN INDIA
AND
INDONESIA
Dr Vivek Neelakantan
Historian of Medicine
The Overview
• State responses to COVID 19 in India and Indonesia
• The differences between Indian and Indonesian response to COVID-19
• Necropolitics
2 Concepts in Medical History
Biopolitics Necropolitics
Biopolitics: • Necropolitics
• Foucault • Cameroonian philosopher Achille
• Style of government that regulates population Mbembe
through biopower.
• Slow disposal of unproductive lives