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Title Queering digital India : activisms, identities, subjectivities / edited by Rohit K. Dasgupta and Debanuj DasGupta.

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Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2018]

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Description 1 online resource (x, 206 pages) : illustrations, maps.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Technicities
Technicities.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary 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.
Contents 1. Introduction. Queering digital India / Rohit K. Dasgupta and Debanuj DasGupta -- 2. Queering digital cultures : a roundtable conversation / Niharika Banerjea, Debanuj DasGupta, Rohit K. Dasgupta, Aniruddha Dutta, Radhika Gajjala, Amit S. Rai and Jack Harrison-Quintana -- 3. Digital closets : post-millennial representations of queerness in Kapoor & Sons and Aligarh / Rahul K. Gairola -- 4. Cruising the ephemeral archives of Bangalore's gay nightlife / Kareem Khubchandani -- 5. Digitally untouched : Janana (in) visibility and the digital divide / Ila Nagar -- 6. Digital outreach and sexual health advocacy : SAATHII as a response / Rohit K. Dasgupta -- 7. The TV9 sting operation on PlanetRomeo : absent subjects, digital privacy and LGBTQ activism / Pawan Singh -- 8. 'Bitch, don't be a lesbian' : selfies and same-sex desire / Sneha Krishnan -- 9. Disciplining the 'delinquent' : situating virtual intimacies, bodies and pleasures among friendship networks of young men in Kolkata, India / Debanuj DasGupta -- 10. Kashmiri desire and digital space : queering national identity and the Indian citizen / Inshah Malik.
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Subject Digital media -- Social aspects -- India.
Digital media -- Social aspects.
India.
Gay men -- India -- Social life and customs.
Gay men.
Manners and customs.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Subject Gay men.
Added Author Dasgupta, Rohit K., editor.
DasGupta, Debanuj, editor.
Other Form: Print version: Queering digital India. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2018] 9781474421171 (OCoLC)1012713658
ISBN 9781474421188 (electronic book)
1474421180 (electronic book)
9781474421195 (epub)
1474421199 (epub)
9781474421171
1474421172
1474421172
9781474421171
Standard No. 9781474421171