Queering Digital India : : Activisms, Identities, Subjectivities / / Debanuj DasGupta, Rohit K. Dasgupta.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
• VerfasserIn: Dasgupta, Rohit K.,; DasGupta, Debanuj,
• MitwirkendeR: Banerjea, Niharika,; DasGupta, Debanuj,; Dasgupta, Rohit K.,; Dutta, Aniruddha,; Gairola, Rahul K.,; Gajjala, Radhika,; Harrison-Quintana, Jack,; Khubchandani, Kareem,; Krishnan, Sneha,; Malik, Inshah,; Nagar, Ila,; Rai, Amit S.,; Singh, Pawan,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Technicities : TECH
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (216 p.) :; 15 B/W illustrations

The first book to look critically at digital technologies and the role they play within queer lives in contemporary IndiaThis 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.Key FeaturesTakes on diverse strands of queer theory to show where neoliberalism, nationalism, digital technologies and movements for queer rights converge in present-day IndiaIntegrates academic pieces with activist and practitioner narrativesLooks at sexualised online communities: their aims, compositions and potentialitiesDiscusses hook-up apps and social media, and how institutions use them to control, discipline and repressEngages with new forms of queer politics, feminist politics and online activismContributorsNiharika Banerjea, Ambedkar University, New Delhi, IndiaAniruddha Dutta, University of Iowa, USAAmit S. Rai, Queen Mary, University of London, UKJack Harrison-Quintana, independent researcher and Director of Grindr for Equality, USARadhika Gajjala, Bowling Green State University, Ohio, USARahul Gairola, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, IndiaKareem Khubchandani, Tufts University, USAIla Nagar, Ohio State University, USARohit K Dasgupta, Loughborough University, UKPawan Singh, University of California San Diego, USASneha Krishnan, St John’s College, University of Oxford, UKDebanuj DasGupta, University of Connecticut, USAInshah Malik, recently Yale University, USA

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Series Editors’ Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1 Introduction: Queering Digital India -- I Digital Performance and Politics -- Chapter 2 Queering Digital Cultures: A Roundtable Conversation -- Chapter 3 Digital Closets: Post-millennial Representations of Queerness in Kapoor & Sons and Aligarh -- Chapter 4 Cruising the Ephemeral Archives of Bangalore’s Gay Nightlife -- II Digital Activism(s) and Advocacy -- Chapter 5 Digitally Untouched: Janana (In) Visibility and the Digital Divide -- Chapter 6 Digital Outreach and Sexual Health Advocacy: SAATHII as a Response -- Chapter 7 The TV9 Sting Operation on PlanetRomeo: Absent Subjects, Digital Privacy and LGBTQ Activism -- III Digital Intimacies -- Chapter 8 ‘Bitch, don’t be a lesbian’: Selfies and Same-Sex Desire -- Chapter 9 Disciplining the ‘Delinquent’: Situating Virtual Intimacies, Bodies and Pleasures Among Friendship Networks of Young Men in Kolkata, India -- Chapter 10 Kashmiri Desire and Digital Space: Queering National Identity and the Indian Citizen -- Contributors -- Index