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Queer Selfhoods in the Shadow of Neoliberal Urbanism
Author(s) -
Me Jisha
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
journal of historical sociology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.186
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 1467-6443
pISSN - 0952-1909
DOI - 10.1111/johs.12006
Subject(s) - queer , performative utterance , urbanism , gender studies , politics , context (archaeology) , shadow (psychology) , sociology , identity (music) , normative , neoliberalism (international relations) , subject (documents) , aesthetics , political science , social science , architecture , history , art , law , psychoanalysis , psychology , archaeology , library science , computer science
Abstract This article explores the political and performative shift in representations of same‐sex desire within the context of neoliberal urbanism in B engaluru, I ndia. The affective shift from labile sexual practices to defiant assertions of sexual identity over the past two decades warrants a conjunctural analysis that tracks the intersections between neoliberal cultures of consumption and liberal rhetorics of equal rights and freedom of choice. Focusing on the queer subject in M ahesh D attani's dramatic oevre, this article considers progressivist accounts of same‐sex desire in neoliberal B engaluru over the past two decades. By examining how non‐normative sexual practices are disciplined into the epistemological categories of LGBT identity politics, the essay charts the itineraries of “queer” as it travels to I ndia.