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Joyraj and Debanuj: queer(y)ing the city
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posted on 2021-02-01, 11:58 authored by Paul Boyce, Rohit DasguptaIn this article we want to evoke two characters that each suggest different points of departure for thinking about Kolkata as a queer kind of space. By this we want to evoke something of the sexual geography and life-ways of the city, but to go beyond this standpoint too, to question ways in which ethnographic characters might be evoked in respect of any context, Kolkata or elsewhere. In one sense this is to open out a perception of Kolkata as a scene of many sexual life-worlds, inviting a plural kind of analysis suggestive of a multiplicity of perspectives; persons/subjects each with a unique viewpoint to be captured. The two characters we explore here each draw attention to issues of belonging and migration, of both wanting to move to and away from Kolkata; creating new life-worlds via the city amidst its shifting sexual geographies, class and caste divisions, and wider diasporic connections and fault-lines. Kolkata itself emerges as an attribute of the characterisations to hand: sometimes as distinct mise-en-scene, at others a kind of sensibility or resonance field for understanding self and others.
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Wellcome Trust [grant number 201329/Z/16/Z]
Economic and Social Research Council [grant number RES-061-25-0065]
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- Loughborough University London
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Contemporary South AsiaVolume
28Issue
4Pages
511 - 523Publisher
Taylor & Francis (Routledge)Version
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)
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© Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis GroupPublisher statement
This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Contemporary South Asia on 20 Jan 2021, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/09584935.2020.1842860.Acceptance date
2020-03-26Publication date
2021-01-20Copyright date
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0958-4935eISSN
1469-364XPublisher version
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- en
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Dr Rohit Dasgupta. Deposit date: 2 June 2020Usage metrics
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