Queering Digital India - (Technicities) by Rohit K Dasgupta & Debanuj Dasgupta (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br><p>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.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>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.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br>'This collection gives voice to the identities, practices and cultures of LGBTQI people living in the world's biggest democracy, interrogating their engagements and entanglements with digital communication technologies. It provides a critical response to the hegemony of digital scholarship and forces those of us in the West to look beyond our own digital backyards.' Sharif Mowlabocus, Senior Lecturer in Digital Media, University of Sussex A critical and queer approach to digital technologies and their socio-political context in contemporary India This pioneering interdisciplinary collection looks critically at digital technologies and the roles they play within queer lives in today's India. The contributors work across a multi-sited range of new media analysing mainstream and alternative spaces such as Twitter, Youtube, Facebook, Grindr and gay men's health websites amongst others. 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. Rohit K. Dasgupta is a lecturer in Media at the Institute for Media and Creative Industries at Loughborough University, UK. Debanuj DasGupta is Assistant Professor of Geography and Women's, Gender, Sexuality Studies at the University of Connecticut, USA. Cover image: A View of the Jama Masjid, Delhi from the series, Tales of a City, commissioned by the Poole Festival of Photography, 2004 (c) Sunil Gupta Cover design: [EUP logo] edinburghuniversitypress.com ISBN 978-1-4744-2117-1 Barcode<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p>Rohit K. Dasgupta is Programme Director and Lecturer in Global Communication and Development at Loughborough University. He is the co-author of <i>Social Media, Sexuality and Sexual Health Advocacy in Kolkata</i> (Bloomsbury, 2017) and co-editor of <i>Friendship as Social Justice Activism</i> (Seagull/Chicago, 2017), <i>Rituparno Ghosh: Cinema, Gender and Art</i> (Routledge, 2015) and <i>Masculinity and its Challenges in India</i> (McFarland, 2014). <p>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 <i>Contemporary South Asia</i>, <i>Disability Studies Quarterly</i>, <i>SEXUALITIES</i>, and the <i>Scholar & Feminist</i> (<i>S&F Online</i>). Debanuj is a renowned trainer in Gender and International Development, and he regularly writes on gender, sexuality and human rights for international development organisations.<p>
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