Queering Digital India: Activisms, Identities, Subjectivities
- Submitting institution
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Loughborough University
- Unit of assessment
- 34 - Communication, Cultural and Media Studies, Library and Information Management
- Output identifier
- 2503
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- B - Edited book
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- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- ISBN
- 9781474421171
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- March
- Year of publication
- 2018
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Additional information
- The research addresses a significant gap in critical scholarship related to the intersection of digital cultures and queer studies. This interdisciplinary collection examines the role played by digital culture on contemporary queer lives in India by taking on diverse strands of queer theory to name the ways neoliberalism, nationalism, digital technologies, and movements for queer rights converge with each other within present day India. Such an analytical approach to queer studies in India is the first of its kind and the result offers a new theoretical and methodological framework to study contemporary India, digital culture, and queer politics through a range of empirical materials across diverse sites from Bangalore to Kashmir. The book is structured around three key themes- digital performance and politics; digital activisms and advocacy and digital intimacies. The research process began with a panel organised by the editors at the 3rd European Geographies of Sexuality conference followed by a workshop organised by the Human Rights Institute at the University of Connecticut and a one-day symposium on queer cultural texts at Jadavpur University, India which brought together some of the authors in this volume. The contributors were selected with different regional expertise spanning a variety of disciplines across anthropology, performance, geography, media and communication and political science. Dasgupta and his co-editor divided the editing of the volume equally between them. Dasgupta co-authored a field-defining and research informed introduction (10,000 words), co-authored a roundtable discussion (10,000 words) and contributed a single-authored chapter (8000 words) based on digital ethnography and interviews conducted in India (supported by a 2016 Wellcome Trust grant 201329/Z/16/Z). The volume provides new insights on social class, identity, consumption and religion in relation to the intersection of queer lives and the role of digital media and technology provoking a critical field of scholarship in digital queer cultures.
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