Full Description
This volume looks at the emerging forms of intimacies in contemporary India. Drawing on rigorous academic research and pop culture phenomena, the volume:
Brings together themes of nationhood, motherhood, disability, masculinity, ethnicity, kinship, and sexuality, and attempts to understand them within a more complex web of issues related to space, social justice, marginality, and communication;
Focuses on the struggles for intimacy by the disabled, queer, Dalit, and other subalterns, as well as people with non-human intimacies, to propose an alternative theory of the politics of belonging;
Explores the role of social and new media in understanding and negotiating intimacies and anxieties.
Comprehensive and thought-provoking, this book will be useful to scholars and researchers of political studies, sociology, sexuality and gender studies, women's studies, cultural studies, and minority studies.
Contents
Introduction: the politics of belonging: anxiety and intimacy Part I: Intimacy, marginality, and anxiety
1. Identification, belonging, and the category of Dalit 2. Emotions in the context of caste slavery: exploring the missionary writings on Kerala 3. Nature and belonging: distance, development, and intimacy Part II: Rethinking intimacy, contemporarity vis-à-vis the conventional institutions 4. Intimacy in Tamil kinship 5. Reading queerness: same-sex marriages in India 6. Homes as conversions: literalising the metaphor of Ghar Wapsi Part III: Dissident body and belonging 7. Anti-caste communitas and outcaste experience: space, body, displacement, and writing 8. Disability and intimacy in the making of Madurai Veeran Part IV: Space, vigilance, and getting intimate 9. The modern-day sex worker: the intimate 'Other' of intimacy and belonging 10. Public spaces and private intimacies: the 'Politics of Belonging' in parks 11. Queer intimacies in the time of new media: when Grindr produces alternative cartographies Part V: Textual belongings 12. Intimacy, belonging, and masculinity in Bhalachandra Nemade's novel Kosla (Cocoon) 13. Hesitant intimacy: North East Indian English poetry vis-à-vis the Indian nationhood Part VI: Techno intimacies 14. Maternal intimacies online: how Indian mom bloggers reconfigure self, body, family, and community 15. Routing techno intimacy, risk, anxiety, and the ambient political
