商品簡介
The first book to look critically at digital technologies and the role they play within queer lives in contemporary India
This 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.
作者簡介
Rohit K. Dasgupta is Assistant Professor in the Institute for Media and Creative Industries at Loughborough University. He is the co-author of Social Media, Sexuality and Sexual Health Advocacy in Kolkata (Bloomsbury, 2017) and co-editor of Friendship as Social Justice Activism (Seagull/Chicago, 2017), Rituparno Ghosh: Cinema, Gender and Art (Routledge, 2015) and Masculinity and its Challenges in India (McFarland, 2014).
Debanuj DasGupta is Assistant Professor of Geography, Women's Gender, and Sexuality studies at the University of Connecticut. His research interests are broadly in the areas of feminist geography, transnational migration, international health and South Asia studies. He has published in Contemporary South Asia, Disability Studies Quarterly, SEXUALITIES, and the Scholar and Feminist (S&F Online).
