Queering Digital India (eBook, PDF)

Activisms, Identities, Subjectivities
Redaktion: Dasgupta, Rohit K.; Dasgupta, Debanuj

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Produktbeschreibung

The first book to look critically at digital technologies and the role they play within queer lives in contemporary India

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.

Key Features

• Takes on diverse strands of queer theory to show where neoliberalism, nationalism, digital technologies and movements for queer rights converge in present-day India
• Integrates academic pieces with activist and practitioner narratives
• Looks at sexualised online communities: their aims, compositions and potentialities
• Discusses hook-up apps and social media, and how institutions use them to control, discipline and repress
• Engages with new forms of queer politics, feminist politics and online activism

Contributors

Niharika Banerjea, Ambedkar University, New Delhi, India

Aniruddha Dutta, University of Iowa, USA

Amit S. Rai, Queen Mary, University of London, UK

Jack Harrison-Quintana, independent researcher and Director of Grindr for Equality, USA

Radhika Gajjala, Bowling Green State University, Ohio, USA

Rahul Gairola, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India

Kareem Khubchandani, Tufts University, USA

Ila Nagar, Ohio State University, USA

Rohit K Dasgupta, Loughborough University, UK

Pawan Singh, University of California San Diego, USA

Sneha Krishnan, St John's College, University of Oxford, UK

Debanuj DasGupta, University of Connecticut, USA

Inshah Malik, recently Yale University, USA

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. März 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781474421188
• Artikelnr.: 54666216

Autorenporträt

Rohit K. Dasgupta is Assistant Professor in the Institute for Media and Creative Industries 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 and Feminist (S&F Online).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
1. Introduction: Queering Digital India
Rohit K. Dasgupta and Debanuj Dasgupta
Part I: Digital Performance and Politics
2. Queering Digital Cultures: A Roundtable Conversation
Niharika 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 Aligarh
Rahul K. Gairola
4. Cruising the Ephemeral Archives of Bangalore's Gay Nightlife
Kareem Khubchandani
Part II: Digital Activism(s) and Advocacy
5. Digitally Untouched: Janana (In) Visibility and the Digital Divide
Ila Nagar
6. Digital Outreach and Sexual Health Advocacy: SAATHII as a Response
Rohit K. Dasgupta
7. The TV9 Sting Operation on PlanetRomeo: Absent Subjects, Digital Privacy
and LGBTQ Activism
Pawan Singh
Part III: Digital Intimacies
8. 'Bitch, Don't Be a Lesbian': Selfies and Same-Sex Desire
Sneha Krishnan
9. Disciplining the 'Delinquent': Situating Virtual Intimacies, Bodies, and
Pleasures among Friendship Network of Young Men in Kolkata, India
Debanuj Dasgupta
10. Kashmiri Desire and Digital Space: Queering Indian Citizen and National
Identity
Inshah Malik
Contributors
Index