Queering Digital India: Activisms, Identities, Subjectivities - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 1474452663 ISBN 13: 9781474452663

Casa editrice: Edinburgh Univ Pr, 2019

Riassunto

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.

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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.

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).

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‘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 SussexA critical and queer approach to digital technologies and their socio-political context in contemporary IndiaThis pioneering interdisciplinary collection looks critically at digital technologies and the roles they play within queer lives in today’s India.The contributors work across a multi-sited range of new media analysing mainstream and alternative spaces such as Twitter, Youtube, Facebook, Grindr and gay men’s health websites amongst others. 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.Rohit K. Dasgupta is a lecturer in Media at the Institute for Media and Creative Industries at Loughborough University, UK. Debanuj DasGupta is Assistant Professor of Geography and Women's, Gender, Sexuality Studies at the University of Connecticut, USA.Cover image: A View of the Jama Masjid, Delhi from the series, Tales of a City, commissioned by the Poole Festival of Photography, 2004 © Sunil GuptaCover design:[EUP logo]edinburghuniversitypress.comISBN 978-1-4744-2117-1Barcode

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Edinburgh Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2019
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1474452663
• ISBN 13: 9781474452663
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 206
• Redattore: Dasgupta Rohit K., Dasgupta Debanuj
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