Queer Politics in Times of New Authoritarianisms (eBook, ePUB)

Popular Culture in South Asia
Redaktion: Biswas, Somak; Mahn, Churnjeet; Dasgupta, Rohit K

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book seeks to encourage critical thinking at suggesting ways in which notions of culture, neoliberalism, nationalism and queerness in the context of new authoritarianisms are disentangled. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of South Asian Popular Culture.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 118
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Februar 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781003858591
• Artikelnr.: 69629509

Autorenporträt

Somak Biswas is a Postdoctoral Fellow, Faculty of History, University of Cambridge. His most recent book is Passages through India: Indian Gurus, Western Disciples and the Politics of Indophilia, 1890-1940 (2023). Rohit K. Dasgupta is Senior lecturer in cultural industries at the University of Glasgow, UK. He is the author of Digital Queer Cultures in India (2017). Churnjeet Mahn is Researcher in Literature with expertise in travel writing, race, and sexuality. Her most recent book is Queer Sharing in the Marketized University (2023).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Queer politics in times of new authoritarianisms 1.
"Attempting to commit offences": Protectionism, surveillance and moral
policing of queer women in Sri Lanka 2. "It's illegal but it's not, like,
really illegal": Sri Lanka's 'sodomy laws', the politics of equivocation,
and queer men's sexual citizenship in The One Who Loves You So 3.
Contesting the mainstream transwoman figurations: The question of caste and
precarity in Udalaazham 4. Between the sheets: The queer sociality of
Bombay zines 5. Between 'Cheeni' and 'Nupi Maanbi': Transgender politics in
Manipur at the intersection of nation and Indigeneity 6. Mirrors and
murals: Reflections on embodied and state violence 7. Instagram
representation of trans and hijra identities in Bangladesh