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Queering digital India : activisms, identities, subjectivities / edited by Rohit K. Dasgupta and Debanuj DasGupta.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Technicities Series
- Technicities : TECH
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Digital media--Social aspects--India.
- Digital media.
- Gay men--India--Social life and customs.
- Gay men.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 206 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2018.
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- Summary:
- 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 socio-political situation in India, offering a new way of understanding queerness and Indian-ness.
- 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-millennial 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 LGBTQ 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:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 27 Apr 2021).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-4744-2119-9
- 1-4744-2118-0
- OCLC:
- 1065299465
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