Full Description
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.
Contents
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction: Queering Digital IndiaRohit K. Dasgupta and Debanuj Dasgupta
Part I: Digital Performance and Politics
2. Queering Digital Cultures: A Roundtable ConversationNiharika 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 AligarhRahul K. Gairola
4. Cruising the Ephemeral Archives of Bangalore's Gay NightlifeKareem Khubchandani
Part II: Digital Activism(s) and Advocacy
5. Digitally Untouched: Janana (In) Visibility and the Digital DivideIla Nagar
6. Digital Outreach and Sexual Health Advocacy: SAATHII as a ResponseRohit K. Dasgupta
7. The TV9 Sting Operation on PlanetRomeo: Absent Subjects, Digital Privacy and LGBTQ ActivismPawan Singh
Part III: Digital Intimacies
8. 'Bitch, Don't Be a Lesbian': Selfies and Same-Sex DesireSneha Krishnan
9. Disciplining the 'Delinquent': Situating Virtual Intimacies, Bodies, and Pleasures among Friendship Network of Young Men in Kolkata, IndiaDebanuj Dasgupta
10. Kashmiri Desire and Digital Space: Queering Indian Citizen and National IdentityInshah Malik
ContributorsIndex
