Viral Assemblages and Witnessing Extraordinary Times: Queer Patchworks of Intimacy, Precarity and Affect in an Indian City

References

• Abbas, M., 2021. India's Growing Data Usage, Smartphone Adoption to Boost Digital India Initiatives: Top Bureaucrat. The Economic Times. October 26
   Google Scholar
• Ahmed, S., 2019. Lesbian Feminism. In: N. Banerjea, K. Browne, E. Ferreira, M. Olasik, and J. Podmore, eds. Lesbian Feminism: Essay Opposing Global Heteropatriarchies. London: Zed, 303–324.
   Google Scholar
• Appadurai, A., 2001. Globalisation. Durham: Duke University Press.
   Google Scholar
• Baccheta, P., 1999. When the (Hindu) Nation Exiles Its Queers. Social Text, 61, 141–166.
   Google Scholar
• Banaji, S., and Bhat, R., 2020. Social Media and Hate. London: Routledge.
   Google Scholar
• Banerjea, N., Boyce, P., and Dasgupta, R.K., 2022. COVID-19 Assemblages: Queer and Feminist Ethnographies from South Asia. London: Routledge.
   Google Scholar
• Banerjea, N., and Browne, K., 2018. Liveable Lives: A Transnational Queer-Feminist Reflection on Sexuality, Development and Governance. In: C.L. Mason, ed. Routledge Handbook of Queer Development Studies. New York: Routledge, 169–180.
   Google Scholar
• Berlant, L., 2004. Introduction: Compassion and (Withholding). In: L. Berlant, ed. Compassion: The Culture and Politics of an Emotion. London: Routledge, 1–14.
   Google Scholar
• Berlant, L., 2007. Slow Death (Sovereignty, Obesity, Lateral Agency). Critical Inquiry, 33 (4), 754–780.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Berlant, L., 2012. Desire/Love. New York: Punctum Books.
   Google Scholar
• Blank, G., 2013. Who Creates Content? Stratification and Content Creation on the Internet. Information. Communication Society, 16 (4), 590–612.
   Google Scholar
• Boyce, P., 2007. ‘Conceiving Kothis’: Men Who Have Sex with Men in India and the Cultural Subject of HIV Prevention. Medical Anthropology, 26 (2), 175–203.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Boyce, P., and Dasgupta, R.K., 2017. Utopia or Elsewhere: Queer Modernities in Small Town West Bengal. In: T. Kuldova and M. Varughese, eds. Urban Utopias: Excess and Expulsion in Neoliberal South Asia. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 209–225.
   Google Scholar
• Butler, J., 2004. Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence. London: Verso.
   Google Scholar
• Chayko, M., 2017. Superconnected: The Internet, Digital Media and Techno Social Life. London: Sage.
   Google Scholar
• Couldry, N., 2004. Theorising Media as Practice. Social Semiotics, 14 (2), 115–132.
   Google Scholar
• Dasgupta, R.K., 2017. Digital Queer Cultures: Politics, Intimacies and Belonging. London: Routledge.
   Google Scholar
• Dasgupta, R.K., 2020. Keep It Classy: Grindr, Facebook and Enclaves of Queer Privilege in India. In: Erika Polson, Lynn Schofield Clark, and Radhika Gajjala, eds. The Routledge Companion to Media and Class. London: Routledge, 90–98.
   Google Scholar
• Dasgupta, R.K., 2022. ‘Grindr is Basically Interactive Porn’: Ethnographic Observations from Kolkata on Queer Intimacies and ‘Pic-Exchange’ on Grindr & Planet Romeo. Porn Studies, 9 (3), 339–345.
   Google Scholar
• Dasgupta, R.K., and Dasgupta, D., 2019. Queering Digital India: Activisms, Identities, Subjectivities. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
   Google Scholar
• Deleuze, G., and Guattari, F., 1987. A Thousand Plateaus. Translated by Brian Massumi. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
   Google Scholar
• Deleuze, G., and Parnet, C., 1987. Dialogues. New York: Columbia University Press.
   Google Scholar
• Dutta, A., 2012. An Epistemology of Collusion: Hijras, Kothis and the Historical (Dis)Continuity of Gender/Sexual Identities in Eastern India. Gender & History, 24 (3), 825–849.
   Google Scholar
• Foucault, M., 2003. Society Must Be Defended: Lectures at the College de France. New York: Picador Press.
   Google Scholar
• Gerbaudo, P., 2012. Tweets and the Streets: Social Media and Contemporary Activism. London: Pluto Press.
   Google Scholar
• Günel, G., Varma, S., and Watanabe, C. 2020. A Manifesto for Patchwork Ethnography, Member Voices, Fieldsights, June 9. Available from: https://culanth.org/fieldsights/a-manifesto-for-patchwork-ethnography. [Accessed on 10 January, 2022].
   Google Scholar
• Halberstam, J., 2011. The Queer Art of Failure. Durham: Duke University Press.
   Google Scholar
• Hall, S., 1988. The Hard Road to Renewal: Thatcherism and the Crisis of the Left. London: Verso.
   Google Scholar
• Hall, S., 1993. Encoding/Decoding. In: S During, ed. The Cultural Studies Reader. New York: Routledge, 90–103.
   Google Scholar
• Henderson, L., 2013. Love and Money: Queers, Class, and Cultural Production. New York: NYU Press.
   Google Scholar
• Hollibaugh, A., and Weiss, M., 2015. Queer Precarity and the Myth of Gay Affluence. New Labor Forum, 24 (3), 18–27.
   Google Scholar
• Mander, H., 2021. Locking Down the Poor: The Pandemic and India’s Moral Centre. New Delhi: Speaking Tiger.
   Google Scholar
• Noble, S.U., 2018. Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism. New York: NYU Press.
   Google Scholar
• Povinelli, E., 2006. The Empire of Love: Toward a Theory of Intimacy, Genealogy and Carnality. Durham: Duke University Press.
   Google Scholar
• Prasad, P., 2020. In a Minor Key: Queer Kinship in Times of Grief. QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking, 7 (1), 113–119.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Puar, J.K., 2007. Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times. Durham: Duke University Press.
   Google Scholar
• Puar, J.K., 2017. Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability. Durham: Duke University Press.
   Google Scholar
• Rao, R., 2020. Out of Time: The Queer Politics of Postcoloniality. New York: Oxford University Press.
   Google Scholar
• Standing, G., 2011. The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class. London: Bloomsbury.
   Google Scholar
• Stewart, K., 2007. Ordinary Affects. Durham: Duke University Press.
   Google Scholar