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

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...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
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Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Technicities : TECH
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Physical Description:1 online resource (216 p.) :; 15 B/W illustrations
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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