Queering Digital India: Activisms, Identities, Subjectivities

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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. List of Figures Series Editors’ Preface Acknowledgements Chapter 1 Introduction: Queering Digital India 1 Digital Performance and Politics Chapter 2 Queering Digital Cultures: A Roundtable Conversation Chapter 3 Digital Closets: Post-millennial Representations of Queerness in Kapoor & Sons and Aligarh Chapter 4 Cruising the Ephemeral Archives of Bangalore’s Gay Nightlife II Digital Activism(s) and Advocacy Chapter 5 Digitally Untouched: Janana (In) Visibility and the Digital Divide Chapter 6 Digital Outreach and Sexual Health Advocacy: SAATHII as a Response Chapter 7 The TV9 Sting Operation on PlanetRomeo: Absent Subjects, Digital Privacy and LGBTQ Activism III Digital Intimacies Chapter 8 ‘Bitch, don’t be a lesbian’: Selfi es and Same-Sex Desire Chapter 9 Disciplining the ‘Delinquent’: Situating Virtual Intimacies, Bodies and Pleasures Among Friendship Networks of Young Men in Kolkata, India Chapter 10 Kashmiri Desire and Digital Space: Queering National Identity and the Indian Citizen Contributors Index