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Digital Queer Cultures in India
Politics, Intimacies and Belonging

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Sexuality in Republic of india offers an expression of nationalist anxieties and is a significant mark of modernity through which subjectivities are formed among the middle course. This book investigates the everyday experience of queer Indian men on digital spaces. Information technology explores how queer identities are formed in virtual spaces and how the being of such spaces challenge and critique 'Indian'-ness. It also looks at the function of form and intimacy within the discourse. This work argues that new media, social networking sites (SNSs), both web and mobile, and related technologies practice non exist in isolation; rather they are critically embedded inside other social spaces. Similarly, online queer spaces exist parallel to and in conjunction with the larger queer motion in the country.

This volume will exist of cracking interest to scholars and researchers of gender studies, especially men's and masculinity studies, queer and LGBT studies, media and cultural studies, particularly new media and digital culture, sexuality and identity, politics, sociology and social anthropology, and South Asian studies.

Tabular array of Contents

List of Illustrations.  Acknowledgements.  Glossary.  Introduction ane. Postcolonial Residues and Gimmicky Context 2. Media, Diversity and Emergence of the Cyberqueer in Bharat 3. Virtual Intimacies on Digital Queer Platforms 4. 'Imagined' Queer Communities 5. Effeminophobia, Straight Acting and Global Queering half dozen. Dissident Citizenship Decision: Pleasures and politics of researching new queer media Appendixes.  Bibliography.  Index

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Biography

Rohit K. Dasgupta is Lecturer in Media and Creative Industries at Loughborough University, Uk. He has previously lectured at the Academy of Southampton and University of the Arts, London. He is the co-editor of Masculinity and Its Challenges in Bharat (2014) andRituparno Ghosh: Movie house, Gender and Art (2015), and has published essays in journals such as Convergence: International Journal of New Media Technologies; Digital Culture and Pedagogy; Economic and Political Weekly; Film Quarterly; International Periodical of Mode Studies; Theory, Culture and Society; Due south Asian History and Civilisation; and Southward Asian Review.

Reviews

'A timely and fascinating exploration of how new virtual worlds expand, speed up and transform the wide range of cross-class, interlingual and inter-regional networks and relationships among queer men in Bharat.'

Ruth Vanita, Professor, Liberal Studies & Humanities, University of Montana, U.s. and　writer of Honey's Rite: Same-Sex Marriage in Bharat and　the West

'In Digital Queer Cultures in Bharat, Rohit Dasgupta examines the formation of contemporary middle-class Indian male queer subjectivities through language, class, intimacy and activism in both physical and virtual space. He combines his study of queer websites with fieldwork, employing the delightfully named methodology of 'lurking', mostly in Kolkata. This study is of import too for its reconsideration of the concept of a 'queer community' in Bharat, contextualising it amid other social changes postal service-liberalisation. It will exist of great involvement to students of media and queer studies as well as to those involved in the wider report of sexuality and identity in today's India.'

Rachel Dwyer, Professor of Indian Cultures and Cinema, SOAS Academy of London, UK and author of Bollywood's India: Hindi Movie theatre as a Guide to Contemporary Bharat

'Dasgupta'south groundbreaking interrogation of digital media usage in queer India identifies how and why the themes of nationality, class, gender and sexuality must ever exist central to the analysis of media engagement.'

Sharif Mowlabocus, Senior Lecturer of Media and Digital Media, University of Sussex, United kingdom and author ofGaydar Civilization: Gay Men, Technology and Embodiment in the Digital Age

'This piece of work by Rohit Dasgupta is very timely and necessary. It is a must-read for anyone in South Asian studies, digital civilization studies, cyberspace research, media studies, queer studies and many other interdisciplinary areas of research. The background and historical context for digital queer India are mapped in detail and conspicuously take us through the primary theoretical frameworks, the media and social policy histories and the　engagement of issues to do with LGBTQ populations in India.'

Radhika Gajjala, Professor of Media and Communication, Bowling Green State University, Usa and author of Cyberselves: Feminist Ethnographies of South Asian Women