Queering digital india : activisms, identities, subjectivities / edited by Rohit K. Dasgupta and Debanuj DasGupta.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dasgupta, Rohit K., editor.

DasGupta, Debanuj, editor.

Series:

Technicities

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Digital media--Social aspects--India.

Digital media.

Gay men--India--Social life and customs.

Gay men.

Manners and customs.

Digital media--Social aspects.

India.

Physical Description:

x, 206 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2018]

Contents:

1. Introduction. Queering digital India / Rohit K. Dasgupta and Debanuj DasGupta

2. Queering digital cultures : a roundtable conversation / Niharika Banerjea, Debanuj Dasgupta, Rohit K. Dasgupta, Aniruddha Dutta, Radhika Gajjala, Amit S. Rai and Jack Harrison-Quintana

3. Digital closets : post-millenial representations of queerness in Kapoor & Sons and Aligarh / Rahul K. Gairola

4. Cruising the ephemeral archives of Bangalore's gay nightlife / Kareem Khubchandani

5. Digitally untouched : Janana (in) visibility and the digital divide / Ila Nagar

6. Digital outreach and sexual health advocacy : SAATHII as a response / Rohit K. Dasgupta

7. The TV9 sting operation on PlanetRomeo : absent subjects, digital privacy and LGBTP activism / Pawan Singh

8. 'Bitch, don't be a lesbian' : selfies and same-sex desire / Sneha Krishnan

9. Disciplining the 'delinquent' : situating virtual intimacies, bodies and pleasures among friendship networks of young men in Kolkata, India / Debanuj DasGupta

10. Kashmiri desire and digital space : queering national identity and the Indian citizen / Inshah Malik.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781474421171

1474421172

OCLC:

1012713658