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A digital archive of relationship desires : exploring gender, violence, and romance in a modernizing India through unsolicited text messages / Kabita Chakraborty.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Chakraborty, Kabita, active 2024, author.
- Series:
- Sage Research Methods: Diversifying and Decolonizing Research.
- Sage Research Methods: Diversifying and Decolonizing Research
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sex role--Research--India--Kolkata--Case studies.
- Sex role.
- Ethnology--Qualitative research--Case studies.
- Ethnology.
- Sexual harassment--India--Kolkata--Case studies.
- Sexual harassment.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- London : SAGE Publications Ltd, 2024.
- Summary:
- The case study explores the complicated intersection of premarital relationship making, violence, and public sexual harassment in the urban slums (bustees) of Kolkata. Through a stream of unsolicited WhatsApp communications by an unknown male youth from my field site, these texts are a window to the changing gendered, social, cultural, and economic conditions of the bustees. As a digital archive, the WhatsApp communications reveal the difficult place male youth occupy in a rapidly changing India, where many boys and young men feel "left behind," while their female peers surge through new educational opportunities. The text messages show how patriarchal structures and scripts of power are embedded in premarital interactions and how patriarchal dominance continues to shape bustee culture despite discourses on modernity and globalization. These WhatsApp communications also highlight the ethics of phone text-based research methods and asks researchers to consider how they determine their personal boundaries in conducting similar ethnographic research. Detailed analysis of gendered changes and expectations in a modernizing India, however, is limited by using this method. This case study is useful for upper undergraduates and graduate students aiming to conduct qualitative and ethnographic research on young people's experiences of changing gender dynamics in South Asia.
- Notes:
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- ISBN:
- 1-5296-8316-5
- 9781529683165
- OCLC:
- 1428169303
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