Queering Digital India
Activisms, Identities, Subjectivities
Published on 7. August 2019
Book
Paperback/Softback
216 pages
978-1-4744-5266-3 (ISBN)
Description
This pioneering interdisciplinary collection works across mainstream and alternative spaces such as Twitter, Youtube, Facebook, Grindr and gay men's health websites. These digital platforms are then situated within the contemporary socio-political conjuncture in India, offering a way of understanding queerness and Indian-ness in contemporary India. 'Queering' in this book does not simply refer to a sexual category rather queerness is a mode of dispossession through which certain bodies are rendered as bodies marked for discipline and regulation. This book takes on diverse strands of queer theory in order to name the ways neoliberalism, nationalism, digital technologies, and movements for queer rights converge with each other within present day India. This analytical approach to queerness in India is the first of its kind and the result is a pioneering interdisciplinary collection.
Reviews / Votes
This collection gives voice to the identities, practices and cultures of LGBTQI people living in the world's biggest democracy, interrogating their engagements and entanglements with digital communication technologies. It provides a critical response to the hegemony of digital scholarship and forces those of us in the West to look beyond our own digital backyards. * Sharif Mowlabocus, Senior Lecturer in Digital Media, University of Sussex *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
15 black and white illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 233 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
324 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4744-5266-3 (9781474452663)
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E-Book
03/2018
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Persons
Rohit K. Dasgupta is Programme Director and Lecturer in Global Communication and Development at Loughborough University. He is the co-author of Social Media, Sexuality and Sexual Health Advocacy in Kolkata (Bloomsbury, 2017) and co-editor of Friendship as Social Justice Activism (Seagull/Chicago, 2017), Rituparno Ghosh: Cinema, Gender and Art (Routledge, 2015) and Masculinity and its Challenges in India (McFarland, 2014). Debanuj DasGupta is Assistant Professor of Geography, Women's Gender and Sexuality studies at the University of Connecticut. His research interests are broadly in the areas of feminist geography, transnational migration, international health and South Asia studies. He has published in Contemporary South Asia, Disability Studies Quarterly, SEXUALITIES, and the Scholar & Feminist (S&F Online). Debanuj is a renowned trainer in Gender and International Development, and he regularly writes on gender, sexuality and human rights for international development organisations.
Content
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction: Queering Digital IndiaRohit K. Dasgupta and Debanuj Dasgupta
Part I: Digital Performance and Politics
2. Queering Digital Cultures: A Roundtable ConversationNiharika Banerjea, Debanuj Dasgupta, Rohit K. Dasgupta, Aniruddha Dutta, Radhika Gajjala, Amit S. Rai and Jack Harrison-Quintana
3. Digital Closets: Postmillenial Representations of Queerness in Kapoor and Sons and AligarhRahul K. Gairola
4. Cruising the Ephemeral Archives of Bangalore's Gay NightlifeKareem Khubchandani
Part II: Digital Activism(s) and Advocacy
5. Digitally Untouched: Janana (In) Visibility and the Digital DivideIla Nagar
6. Digital Outreach and Sexual Health Advocacy: SAATHII as a ResponseRohit K. Dasgupta
7. The TV9 Sting Operation on PlanetRomeo: Absent Subjects, Digital Privacy and LGBTQ ActivismPawan Singh
Part III: Digital Intimacies
8. 'Bitch, Don't Be a Lesbian': Selfies and Same-Sex DesireSneha Krishnan
9. Disciplining the 'Delinquent': Situating Virtual Intimacies, Bodies, and Pleasures among Friendship Network of Young Men in Kolkata, IndiaDebanuj Dasgupta
10. Kashmiri Desire and Digital Space: Queering Indian Citizen and National IdentityInshah Malik
ContributorsIndex
1. Introduction: Queering Digital IndiaRohit K. Dasgupta and Debanuj Dasgupta
Part I: Digital Performance and Politics
2. Queering Digital Cultures: A Roundtable ConversationNiharika Banerjea, Debanuj Dasgupta, Rohit K. Dasgupta, Aniruddha Dutta, Radhika Gajjala, Amit S. Rai and Jack Harrison-Quintana
3. Digital Closets: Postmillenial Representations of Queerness in Kapoor and Sons and AligarhRahul K. Gairola
4. Cruising the Ephemeral Archives of Bangalore's Gay NightlifeKareem Khubchandani
Part II: Digital Activism(s) and Advocacy
5. Digitally Untouched: Janana (In) Visibility and the Digital DivideIla Nagar
6. Digital Outreach and Sexual Health Advocacy: SAATHII as a ResponseRohit K. Dasgupta
7. The TV9 Sting Operation on PlanetRomeo: Absent Subjects, Digital Privacy and LGBTQ ActivismPawan Singh
Part III: Digital Intimacies
8. 'Bitch, Don't Be a Lesbian': Selfies and Same-Sex DesireSneha Krishnan
9. Disciplining the 'Delinquent': Situating Virtual Intimacies, Bodies, and Pleasures among Friendship Network of Young Men in Kolkata, IndiaDebanuj Dasgupta
10. Kashmiri Desire and Digital Space: Queering Indian Citizen and National IdentityInshah Malik
ContributorsIndex