An Autoethnographic Reflection of COVID-19 and/as Biographical Disruption

Anita Ghai and Suchaita Tenneti

Indian Journal of Gender Studies, 2024, vol. 31, issue 1, 43-60

Abstract: The COVID-19 pandemic and concomitant measures to mitigate it have exacerbated pre-existing social inequalities and have proven to be major disruptive phenomena at both individual and community levels. People with disabilities and chronic illnesses have been some of the most drastically impacted social groups during the pandemic whose isolation and vulnerabilities have often been compounded in the wake of the massive social upheaval. Through an autoethnographic account of a woman with a physical disability in India who has also survived polio, heart disease, cancer and COVID-19, this article captures some of the complex and conflicting emotions and experiences of a life lived at the intersections of various embodied precarities and demonstrates how a social disaster can itself constitute a biographical disruption.

Keywords: Disability studies; autoethnography; COVID-19; personal narrative (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1177/09715215231210537

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