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Digital queer cultures in India : politics, intimacies, and belonging
- Title
- Digital queer cultures in India : politics, intimacies, and belonging / Rohit K. Dasgupta.
- Author
- Dasgupta, Rohit K.
- Publication
- London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2017.
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- Description
- x, 197 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
- 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.
- Subject
- Note
- "A Routledge India original"--Cover.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 178-192) and index.
- Contents
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFD 17-5765
- ISBN
- 1138220345
- 9781138220348
- OCLC
- 962323409
- Author
- Dasgupta, Rohit K., author.
- Title
- Digital queer cultures in India : politics, intimacies, and belonging / Rohit K. Dasgupta.
- Publisher
- London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2017.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 178-192) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFD 17-5765