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Digital queer cultures in India : politics, intimacies, and belonging / Rohit K. Dasgupta.
Publisher: London : Routledge, 2017Distributor: New Delhi, India : Exclusively distributed by, Manohar Publishers & DistributorsEdition: First South Asia editionDescription: x, 197 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cmContent type:- text
- 9781138220348
- 1138220345
- 9781138098404
- Male homosexuality -- Political aspects -- India
- Men -- Sexual behavior -- India
- Gay men -- Computer network resources
- Dating (Social customs) -- Computer network resources
- Internet -- Social aspects
- Queer-Theorie
- Neue Medien
- Dating (Social customs) -- Computer network resources
- Gay men -- Computer network resources
- Internet -- Social aspects
- Men -- Sexual behavior
- India
- 306.7660954 23
- HQ76.2.I4 D37 2017
- Also available as an e-book.
Contents:
Summary: Sexuality in India offers an expression of nationalist anxieties and is a significant marker of modernity through which subjectivities are formed among the middle class. This book investigates the everyday experience of queer Indian men on digital spaces. It explores how queer identities are formed in virtual spaces and how the existence of such spaces challenge and critique 'Indian'-ness. It also looks at the role of class and intimacy within the discourse. This work argues that new media, social networking sites (SNSs), both web and mobile, and related technologies do not exist in isolation; rather they are critically embedded within other social spaces. Similarly, online queer spaces exist parallel to and in conjunction with the larger queer movement in the country. This book will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of gender studies, especially men's and masculinity studies, queer and LGBT studies, media and cultural studies, particularly new media and digital culture, sexuality and identity, politics, sociology and social anthropology, and South Asian studies.
Postcolonial residues and contemporary sketches -- Media, diversity and emergence of the cyberqueer in India -- Virtual intimacies on digital queer platforms -- 'Imagined' queer communities -- Effeminophobia, 'straight-acting' and global queering -- Dissident citizenship.
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"A Routledge India original"--Cover.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 178-192) and index.
Postcolonial residues and contemporary sketches -- Media, diversity and emergence of the cyberqueer in India -- Virtual intimacies on digital queer platforms -- 'Imagined' queer communities -- Effeminophobia, 'straight-acting' and global queering -- Dissident citizenship.
Sexuality in India offers an expression of nationalist anxieties and is a significant marker of modernity through which subjectivities are formed among the middle class. This book investigates the everyday experience of queer Indian men on digital spaces. It explores how queer identities are formed in virtual spaces and how the existence of such spaces challenge and critique 'Indian'-ness. It also looks at the role of class and intimacy within the discourse. This work argues that new media, social networking sites (SNSs), both web and mobile, and related technologies do not exist in isolation; rather they are critically embedded within other social spaces. Similarly, online queer spaces exist parallel to and in conjunction with the larger queer movement in the country. This book will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of gender studies, especially men's and masculinity studies, queer and LGBT studies, media and cultural studies, particularly new media and digital culture, sexuality and identity, politics, sociology and social anthropology, and South Asian studies.
Also available as an e-book.