Gender, Sexuality, Decolonization
South Asia in the World Perspective
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
Published:29th Dec '20
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This book presents a new approach to the understanding of non-normative sexuality and gender transgressive modes in South Asia and South Asian diaspora. It reconceives sexual representation from the point of view of the theoretical, political and empirical trajectories of decolonization, provincialization and neoliberalism to look at the role of historical contingency, postcolonial sexual politics and gender and sexual diversity. The volume brings together anthropological, historical, material and political analyses around South Asian sexual politics by exploring a range of themes, including culture, class, ethnicity, identity, intersectionality, migration, borders, diaspora, modernity and cosmopolitanism across various local, regional and global contexts.
By using southern/non-Western and subaltern theorizations of gender and sexuality, the book discusses South Asian sexualities through issues such as the sexual politics of indeterminacy; sexual subculture, iconography and political decision-making; religious identity; queer South Asian diaspora; decolonizing the postcolonial body; sexual politics, gender and feminist debates; discrimination, and socio-political violence; the political economy of empowerment; and critical appropriation of the 377 Indian Penal Code. It also builds forms of dialogues to bridge the gap between academic and development practitioners.
With diverse case studies and a fresh theoretical framework, this book will be an essential read for scholars and researchers of South Asian studies, gender studies, sexuality studies, sociology and social anthropology, political studies, diaspora studies, postcolonial and global south studies.
‘This is an important and groundbreaking book which brings together scholarly work on gender, sexuality and sexual politics from across South Asia and its diasporas. Interrogating the colonial and postcolonial contexts as well as the possibilities for radical futures, the essays demonstrate the power of ethnography in throwing new light on sexual identity and politics.’
Katy J. Gardner, Professor of Anthropology, London School of Economics and Political Science, University of London, UK
‘This timely anthology calls for a thorough recalibration of the epistemologies through which we understand sexuality and sexual politics in global South Asia. The essays critically engage postcolonial, transnational, and de-colonial critiques to ask a set of provocative questions around what it means to produce theory from the south. The volume centres "trouble, breakages and ruptures" to explore both political and aesthetic practices of negotiation and subversion. With a firm accent on plurality, the anthology offers new possibilities of negotiating racialized, sexualized, and gendered forms of resistance. This will be an invaluable resource, not least because it brings into conversation a remarkable set of interlocutors engaged in the critical work of border crossing.’
Dina M Siddiqi, Clinical Associate Professor, Global Liberal Studies, New York University, USA
‘There has been a surge of sorts in South Asian scholarship on sexual and gender diversity, but this anthology is like no other: it features an astonishing array of incisive contributions from across the subcontinent that engage the reader with the latest in decolonial, intersectional and radical thinking about sexual and gender-non-conformity. A towering, once-in-a-generation achievement!’
Vanja Hamzić,Senior Lecturer, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK
ISBN: 9780367901240
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 598g
308 pages