Digital Diasporas

Radhika Gajjala has been an important expert on digital culture in India and the United States for decades, as well as an innovator in ethnographic research. This book exemplifies her deep commitments to feminist scholarship and to collaborative methodologies. For those wishing to understand phenomena such as hashtag feminism or digital domesticity, Gajjala’s insights about online behavior among members of the vast South Asian digital diaspora are powerful, complex, and deeply engaged with the lives of her subjects and fellow researchers. -- Elizabeth Losh, associate professor of English and American Studies, College of William and Mary
Building on insights developed over years of feminist ethnographic engagement in digital and offline spaces, in this volume Radhika Gajjala attempts to push the boundaries of her own work, in terms of both process and substance. This valuable work complicates and fills out our understanding of South Asian digital diasporas by challenging the false binaries of ghar and bhair, or domestic and public, throwing into the mix the dynamics of caste, gender, religion and geographic location, opening up many questions that will continue to vex us—as feminists, as media scholars, and as occupants of multiple digital worlds. -- Usha Raman, associate professor, Department of Communication, University of Hyderabad
Radhika Gajjala's generosity as a scholar, and commitment to representation is exemplified in this collection that is constructed through a series of dialogues with feminist collaborators and thinkers. Her approach sets a high bar for intersectional scholarship, and consequently succeeds in capturing the complex nature of contemporary Indian feminism with nuance. Gajjala's work covers a wide range of contexts, from queer activism to questions of caste, providing readers with a collection of indispensible insights essential to understanding how the digital shapes each of these lived experiences in myriad ways. -- Padmini Ray Murray