
Pink Revolutions
Globalization, Hindutva, and Queer Triangles in Contemporary India
Nishant Shahani(Author)
Northwestern University Press
Published on 30. July 2021
Book
Paperback/Softback
296 pages
978-0-8101-4362-3 (ISBN)
Description
Pink Revolutions describes how queer politics in India occupies an uneasy position between the forces of neoliberal globalization, on the one hand, and the nationalist Hindu fundamentalism that has emerged since the 1990s, on the other. While neoliberal forces use queerness to highlight India's democratic credentials and stature within a globalized world, nationalist voices claim that queer movements in the country pose a threat to Indian national identity. Nishant Shahani argues that this tension implicates queer politics within messy entanglements and knotted ideological triangulations, geometries of power in which local understandings of "authentic" nationalism brush up against global agendas of multinational capital.
Eschewing structures of absolute complicity or abject alterity, Pink Revolutions pays attention to the logics of triangulation in various contexts: gay tourism, university campus politics, diasporic cultural productions, and AIDS activism. The book articulates a framework through which queer politics can challenge rather than participate in neoliberal imperatives, an approach that will interest scholars engaged with queer studies and postcolonial scholarship, as well as activists and academics wrestling with global capitalism and right-wing regimes around the world.
Eschewing structures of absolute complicity or abject alterity, Pink Revolutions pays attention to the logics of triangulation in various contexts: gay tourism, university campus politics, diasporic cultural productions, and AIDS activism. The book articulates a framework through which queer politics can challenge rather than participate in neoliberal imperatives, an approach that will interest scholars engaged with queer studies and postcolonial scholarship, as well as activists and academics wrestling with global capitalism and right-wing regimes around the world.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Evanston
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
3 b&w images
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
402 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8101-4362-3 (9780810143623)
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Content
Acknowledgements
Introduction: "This is not the Morning we were Waiting for": Theorizing Pink Revolutions
1. "Revolutionary" Reform, Reformist "Revolution"
2. Safe in the City: Gay Tourism in India and the Politics of Worlding
3. Queer Privacy during Seditious Times: Re-Touching the Case of Ramchandra Siras
4. Patently Queer: The Late Effects of Illness During Revolutionary Times
5. Beyond the Banyan Tree: Diasporic Mobility in Passages Away from India
Afterword: A Delayed Postscript
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Introduction: "This is not the Morning we were Waiting for": Theorizing Pink Revolutions
1. "Revolutionary" Reform, Reformist "Revolution"
2. Safe in the City: Gay Tourism in India and the Politics of Worlding
3. Queer Privacy during Seditious Times: Re-Touching the Case of Ramchandra Siras
4. Patently Queer: The Late Effects of Illness During Revolutionary Times
5. Beyond the Banyan Tree: Diasporic Mobility in Passages Away from India
Afterword: A Delayed Postscript
Notes
Bibliography
Index