ABSTRACT
This volume looks at the emerging forms of intimacies in contemporary India. Drawing on rigorous academic research and pop culture phenomena, the volume:
- Brings together themes of nationhood, motherhood, disability, masculinity, ethnicity, kinship, and sexuality, and attempts to understand them within a more complex web of issues related to space, social justice, marginality, and communication;
- Focuses on the struggles for intimacy by the disabled, queer, Dalit, and other subalterns, as well as people with non-human intimacies, to propose an alternative theory of the politics of belonging;
- Explores the role of social and new media in understanding and negotiating intimacies and anxieties.
Comprehensive and thought-provoking, this book will be useful to scholars and researchers of political studies, sociology, sexuality and gender studies, women’s studies, cultural studies, and minority studies.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|46 pages
Intimacy, marginality, and anxiety
chapter 2|17 pages
Emotions in the context of caste slavery
Exploring the missionary writings on Kerala
part II|34 pages
Rethinking intimacy, contemporarity vis-à-vis the conventional institutions
part III|43 pages
Dissident body and belonging
chapter 7|25 pages
Anti-caste communitas and outcaste experience
Space, body, displacement, and writing
part IV|48 pages
Space, vigilance, and getting intimate
chapter 11|11 pages
Queer intimacies in the time of new media
When Grindr produces alternative cartographies
part V|26 pages
Textual belongings
chapter 13|14 pages
Hesitant intimacy
North East Indian English poetry vis-à-vis the Indian nationhood
part VI|40 pages
Techno intimacies
chapter 14|21 pages
Maternal intimacies online
How Indian mom bloggers reconfigure self, body, family, and community