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Joyraj and Debanuj: queer(y)ing the city

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posted on 2023-06-07, 07:20 authored by Paul BoycePaul Boyce, Rohit K Dasgupta
In 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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Publication status

  • Published

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  • Accepted version

Journal

Contemporary South Asia

ISSN

0958-4935

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

Issue

4

Volume

28

Page range

511-523

Department affiliated with

  • Anthropology Publications

Full text available

  • Yes

Peer reviewed?

  • Yes

Legacy Posted Date

2020-06-23

First Open Access (FOA) Date

2022-07-21

First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date

2020-06-22

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