The first book to look critically at digital technologies and the
role they play within queer lives in contemporary IndiaThis
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.Key FeaturesTakes on
diverse strands of queer theory to show where neoliberalism,
nationalism, digital technologies and movements for queer rights
converge in present-day IndiaIntegrates academic pieces with
activist and practitioner narrativesLooks at sexualised online
communities: their aims, compositions and potentialitiesDiscusses
hook-up apps and social media, and how institutions use them to
control, discipline and repressEngages with new forms of queer
politics, feminist politics and online activismContributorsNiharika
Banerjea, Ambedkar University, New Delhi, IndiaAniruddha Dutta,
University of Iowa, USAAmit S. Rai, Queen Mary, University of
London, UKJack Harrison-Quintana, independent researcher and
Director of Grindr for Equality, USARadhika Gajjala, Bowling Green
State University, Ohio, USARahul Gairola, Indian Institute of
Technology Roorkee, IndiaKareem Khubchandani, Tufts University,
USAIla Nagar, Ohio State University, USARohit K Dasgupta,
Loughbrough University, UKPawan Singh, University of California San
Diego, USASneha Krishnan, St John's College, University of Oxford,
UKDebanuj DasGupta, University of Connecticut, USAInshah Malik,
recently Yale University, USA
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