- Title
- Private healthcare in Imphal, Manipur: liberalizing the unruly frontier
- Creator
- McDuie-Ra, Duncan
- Relation
- Frontier Assemblages: The Emergent Politics of Resource Frontiers in Asia p. 171-186
- Relation
- Antipode Book Series
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781119412090
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2019
- Description
- This chapter explores the assemblage of interests, actors, flows and ideas that are transforming a small zone within the particular frontier, Imphal's private health sector. It offers an ethnography of Langol as an entry point to Imphal and the contours of this frontier assemblage. The chapter provides a brief background on Imphal making a case to consider it as 'sensitive space'. It focuses on Shija hospital, the showpiece private hospital in the city, and explores the ways patient mobility demonstrates non-state control over movement through patches of territory evoking the possibilities of future sovereignty. Imphal was declared a 'disturbed area' in 1980 after violence plaguing the rest of the state travelled to the city. A disturbed area is any designated territory within the current (though disputed) borders of India where extraordinary laws can be enacted.
- Subject
- private healthcare; Imphal, Manipur; Shija hospital; frontier
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1441756
- Identifier
- uon:41521
- Identifier
- ISBN:9781119412052
- Language
- eng
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