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Queer Politics in Times of New Authoritarianisms

Somak Biswas Rohit K Dasgupta Churnjeet Mahn

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  • 108 sidor
  • 2024
Queerness remains a central fault line in contemporary South Asia. Colonial-era anti-sodomy laws, codified in Article 377 of the penal codes in India, Bangladesh and Pakistan, or Article 365 in Sri Lanka, exemplify the shared imperial lineages of the region as also their long postcolonial afterlives. Across South Asia and the world, new authoritarianisms have reignited old fault lines around sexuality. New media technologies have increasingly connected diasporic space with mainland South Asia, globalising queer networks. Yet, these trajectories are necessarily discontinuous. In the last two decades whilst there has been an explosion of LGBTQ+ visibility most notably in South Asian film, television and new media, this visibility has come with mainstream ideological agendas which do not especially represent the diversity of queer lives in South Asia along key identities of caste, class, religion and region. This book seeks to encourage critical thinking by suggesting ways in which notions of culture, neoliberalism, nationalism and queerness in the context of new authoritarianisms are disentangled. The chapters in this volume take up these questions and offer critical imaginings of sexual politics and its imbrication with popular culture and authoritarian politics within contemporary South Asia. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of South Asian Popular Culture.
  • Författare: Somak Biswas, Rohit K Dasgupta, Churnjeet Mahn
  • Format: Inbunden
  • ISBN: 9781032610337
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 108
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2024-02-15
  • Förlag: Routledge