Private healthcare in Imphal, Manipur: liberalizing the unruly frontier

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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