Chatterjee Queer Politics in India: Towards Sexual Subaltern Subjects

Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-1-351-71356-6
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 152 Seiten

Reihe: Concepts for Critical Psychology

Queer Politics in India simultaneously tells two interconnected stories. The first explores the struggle against violence and marginalization by queer people in the Indian subcontinent, and places this movement towards equality and inclusion in relation to queer movements across the world. The second story, about a lesbian suicide in a small village in India, interrupts the first one. Together, both these stories push and pull the book to elucidate the failure and promise of queer politics, in India and the rest of the world.

This book emerges at a critical time for queer politics and activism in India, exploring the contemporary queer subject through the different lenses of critical psychology, Lacanian psychoanalysis, feminist and queer theory, and cultural studies in its critique of the constructions of discourses of ‘normal’ sexuality. It also examines how power determines further segregations of ‘abnormal’ sexuality into legitimate and illegitimate queer subjectivities and authentic and inauthentic queer experiences. By allowing a multi-faceted and engaged critique to emerge that demonstrates how the idea of a universal queer subject fails lower class, lower caste queer subjects, and queer people of colour, the author expertly highlights how all queer people are not the same, even within queer movements, as the book asks the questions, "which queer subject does queer politics fight for?", and, "what is the imagination of a queer subject in queer politics?".

This hugely important and timely work is relevant across many disciplines, and will be useful for students of psychology and other academics areas, as well as researchers and activist organisations.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Chatterjee, Shraddha

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Sozialpsychologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements i

Chapter 1: Post-Script 1

Chapter 2: Fragmentary Fields: A Map of Queer Politics in India 7

Chapter 3: Queer/Political/Subject 28

Chapter 4: Inside the Fold of Re-presentations 53

Chapter 5: Towards Sexual Subaltern Subjects 72

Chapter 6: Melancholy, Uncertainty, Responsibility 92

Bibliography ii

Über Autor(innen)

Shraddha Chatterjee is currently a PhD scholar in Gender, Feminist, & Women’s Studies at York University. She has previously trained in psychology, and her work is informed by Lacanian psychoanalysis, critical psychology, feminist & queer theory, and cultural studies. She is involved with feminist queer spaces in New Delhi and Kolkata.