Massification, Debility, and 40 Years of Crisis in Bhopal w/ Jiya Pandya (05/16/24)

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🗓️ 15 May 2024

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Beatrice and Jules speak with historian Jiya Pandya about how the Bhopal gas leak—often described as the worst industrial disaster in living memory—continues to be an unchecked crisis 40 years later, what it teaches us about how to respond to more recent crises, and how organizers here in the US can get in touch with Bhopal survivor activists who will be coming to the US later this fall. Transcript: www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/bhopal-jiya-pandya Read Jiya's piece “Crip Life Amidst Debilitation: Medicalization, Survival, and the Bhopal Gas Leak” here: https://dsq-sds.org/index.php/dsq/article/view/9653/8013 Find our book Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Find Jules' new book, A Short History of Trans Misogyny, here: https://www.versobooks.com/products/3054-a-short-history-of-trans-misogyny Death Panel merch here (patrons get a discount code): www.deathpanel.net/merch As always, support Death Panel at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod

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0:00.0	that long logic of dability gets elighted in research because we only think of this sort of
0:07.0	production of harm or production of violence as a unique moment of crisis. So the COVID pandemic,
0:15.3	but also the genocide that is happening in Gaza right now, they are not unique moments of crisis.
0:20.1	Things don't just happen out of nowhere.
0:22.3	And the job of the historian,
0:23.7	but also I think our job as people committed to a better world
0:27.6	is to resist that temporality
0:29.6	and say these things have been around for a long time.
0:32.1	And if we don't deal with the causes of them,
0:34.5	they will continue to exist for a long time.
1:04.0	Thank you. the causes of them, they will continue to exist for a long time. Welcome to the Death Panel.
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1:31.9	I'm Beatrice Adler Bolton and I am here today with my co-host, Jules Gil Peterson.
1:36.7	Hello.
1:37.5	And the two of us are joined by a wonderful guest whom we've been really looking forward to speaking
1:41.6	with about their work on the historical and ongoing
1:44.4	creation and perpetuation of disposability, precarity, and debility in what has often
1:50.6	been described as the world's worst industrial disaster, which is the 1984 gas leak in a
1:57.4	U.S. run factory in Bhopal, India. Our guest is Gia Pandya.
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