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Desire and Its Discontents : Queer Politics in Contemporary India / Editors Oishik Sircar and Dipika Jain

Contributor(s): Publication details: New Delhi Zubaan 2024Description: xlii, 308 pages 22 cmISBN:
  • 978-81-94253-38-9 (paperback)
DDC classification:
  • 306.60954
Contents:
Introduction: Counterintuitions: The Fraught After-Lives of Queer Freedom Dipika Jain and Oishik Sirca; Chapter 1 Multi-tasking Queer: Reflections on the Posibilities of Homosexual Disidence in Law Ratna Kapur; Chapter 2 Disrupting the Dinner Table: Re-thinking the "Queer Movement' in Contemporary India Ashley Tellis; Chapter 3 Continental Drift: Queer, Feminism, Postcolonial Brenda Cossman; Chapter 4 Section 377 and the Myth of Heterosexuality Zaid Al Baset; Chapter 5 Claiming citizenship, Contesting civility: the institutional LGHT Movement and the Regulation of Gender/ Sexual Dissidence in Wes Bengal, India Aniruddha Dutta; Chapter6 Complicating Privacy further in the Naz Aftermath: Homonormativity and Queer Politics in India Pawn Singh; Chapter 7 You Ca' tix Us Trans Citizenship and the Classificatory Anxieties the State Gee Imaan Semmalar; Chapter & Finding the 'Gay' in Ambedkar: Contesting and Breaking Lines Between Caste and Sexuality Akhil Kang; Chapter 9 Law, Sexuality and Diaspora Sonia K. Katyal; Chapter 10 The Promise of an Event: Sexuality's Historiography Anjali Arondekar; Chapter 11 Afterword Rahul Ruo; Acknowledgements; Editors; Contributors.
Summary: Has the queer movement’s politics in India escaped the combined onslaught of neoliberalism, Hindutva and brahminism? What has this triad done to queer politics in the wake of the ‘reading down’ of India’s sodomy law? Has the decriminalization of adult, consensual and private sex, depoliticized the queer movement? Is the queer movement immune to casteist, sexist and religious prejudice? In the aftermath of the failures and triumphs in the historic Naz, Koushal, NALSA and Navtej judgements of the Supreme Court of India, the essays in this volume engage in a counterintuitive interrogation of the prejudiced dimensions of the mainstream queer movement in India. The essays offer insights into the ways in which new forms of queer solidarities, mobilizations and imaginaries are resisting and subverting the movement’s tacit and overt alignments with neoliberalism, Hindutva and brahminism.
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Introduction: Counterintuitions: The Fraught After-Lives of Queer Freedom Dipika Jain and Oishik Sirca;
Chapter 1 Multi-tasking Queer: Reflections on the Posibilities of Homosexual Disidence in Law Ratna Kapur;
Chapter 2 Disrupting the Dinner Table: Re-thinking the "Queer Movement' in Contemporary India Ashley Tellis;
Chapter 3 Continental Drift: Queer, Feminism, Postcolonial Brenda Cossman;
Chapter 4 Section 377 and the Myth of Heterosexuality Zaid Al Baset;
Chapter 5 Claiming citizenship, Contesting civility: the institutional LGHT Movement and the Regulation of Gender/ Sexual Dissidence in Wes Bengal, India Aniruddha Dutta;
Chapter6 Complicating Privacy further in the Naz Aftermath: Homonormativity and Queer Politics in India Pawn Singh;
Chapter 7 You Ca' tix Us Trans Citizenship and the Classificatory Anxieties the State Gee Imaan Semmalar;
Chapter & Finding the 'Gay' in Ambedkar: Contesting and Breaking Lines Between Caste and Sexuality Akhil Kang;
Chapter 9 Law, Sexuality and Diaspora Sonia K. Katyal;
Chapter 10 The Promise of an Event: Sexuality's Historiography Anjali Arondekar;
Chapter 11 Afterword Rahul Ruo;
Acknowledgements;
Editors;
Contributors.

Has the queer movement’s politics in India escaped the combined onslaught of neoliberalism, Hindutva and brahminism? What has this triad done to queer politics in the wake of the ‘reading down’ of India’s sodomy law? Has the decriminalization of adult, consensual and private sex, depoliticized the queer movement? Is the queer movement immune to casteist, sexist and religious prejudice? In the aftermath of the failures and triumphs in the historic Naz, Koushal, NALSA and Navtej judgements of the Supreme Court of India, the essays in this volume engage in a counterintuitive interrogation of the prejudiced dimensions of the mainstream queer movement in India. The essays offer insights into the ways in which new forms of queer solidarities, mobilizations and imaginaries are resisting and subverting the movement’s tacit and overt alignments with neoliberalism, Hindutva and brahminism.

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