Relational counterpublics: Media discourses on the COVID Delta variant surge in India

Roy, Rianka and Purkayastha, Bandana and Choudhury Lahiri, Shoma and Rajak, Dinesh and Ebenezer, Deepa (2025) Relational counterpublics: Media discourses on the COVID Delta variant surge in India. Current Sociology. ISSN 0011-3921

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Abstract

This article analyzes 2135 news reports published in four languages in India and the United States about the COVID Delta variant surge in India in 2021. We theorize how the dominant and alternate or counter media discourses, in varying structural and political contexts, emerged as ‘relational counterpublics’. Influenced by scholarly decolonial conversations critical of methodological nationalism, we examine pandemic media discourses in their global, transnational, and local manifestations, and the relationality of dominant and more localized discourses to trace the contours of power manifested in them.

Item Type:	Article
Authors:	Roy, Rianka and Purkayastha, Bandana and Choudhury Lahiri, Shoma and Rajak, Dinesh and Ebenezer, Deepa
Document Language:	Language English
Subjects:	Social sciences > Sociology & anthropology Public Health
Divisions:	Azim Premji University - Bengaluru > School of Development
Full Text Status:	None
URI:	http://publications.azimpremjiuniversity.edu.in/id/eprint/6923
Publisher URL:	https://doi.org/10.1177/00113921251337088

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