Boyce, P. and Dasgupta, R. K. (2017) Utopia or elsewhere: queer modernities in small town west Bengal. In: Urban Utopias: Excess and Expulsion in Neoliberal South Asia. Series: Palgrave studies in urban anthropology. Springer, pp. 209-225. ISBN 9783319476230 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-47623-0_11)
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Abstract
This chapter is based on collaborative ethnographic work conducted in Siliguri and Barasat, regional towns in West Bengal, India. We explore concerns around ‘liveable lives’ and social visibility in terms of explicit same-sex sexualities in these contexts, seeking to understand such lives as a part of ordinary and wider social discourses and practices concerning belonging and difference. This chapter looks at the experiences of those who might be imagined as queer subjects but who are pushed to the margins of prevailing narratives of queer utopian aspiration in India, for being too regional, peri-urban or rural, bodies and subjects in excess of urban narratives of acceptable difference.
| Item Type: | Book Sections |
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| Additional Information: | Print ISBN: 9783319476223 |
| Status: | Published |
| Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: | Dasgupta, Dr Rohit |
| Authors: | Boyce, P., and Dasgupta, R. K. |
| College/School: | College of Arts & Humanities > School of Culture and Creative Arts > Theatre Film and TV Studies |
| Journal Name: | Urban Utopias |
| Publisher: | Springer |
| ISBN: | 9783319476230 |
| Published Online: | 10 March 2017 |
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