Queering Digital India: Activisms, Identities, Subjectivities

ISBN-13: 9781474421171 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 216 str.

Rohit K. Dasgupta; Debanuj Dasgupta

Opis

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 socio-political situation in India, offering a new way of understanding queerness and Indian-ness.

Spis treści

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.