Graduation Year
2022
Document Type
Open Access Senior Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts
Department
Politics and International Relations
Reader 1
Nancy Neiman
Reader 2
Thomas Kim
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Abstract
This thesis examines the American state's role in addressing the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on marginalized communities, arguing that the state used the frame of disposability politics to justify expanding its carceral capacities and withdrawing as a provider of welfare during the pandemic.
Recommended Citation
Nagarajan-Swenson, Uma, "COVID, Care, and the Carceral State: American Disposability Politics and the Selective Weaponization of Public Health Guidelines During COVID-19" (2022). Scripps Senior Theses. 1956.
https://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/1956
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