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Gaining Full Citizenship of Manipuri Indigenous Nupi Maanbi and Nupa Maanba
The study carries no intention to question the political status of Manipur to the state. However it aims to uncover the ground realities of the Manipuri indigenous Nupi Maanbi and Nupa Maanba with the hope for more effective support and to enable/ facilitate the full implementation of Transgender Protection Act 2019 and Transgender Protection Rule 2020. It is a reflection of the community from a range of people belonging to diverse sociocultural, socio-economic and socio-political background and located in different geographical areas.
Queer Politics in Times of New Authoritarianisms
Queerness remains a central fault line in contemporary South Asia. Colonial-era ‘anti-sodomy’ laws, codified in Article 377 of the penal codes in India, Bangladesh and Pakistan, or Article 365 in Sri Lanka, exemplify the shared imperial lineages of the region as also their long postcolonial afterlives. Across South Asia and the world, new authoritarianisms have reignited old fault lines around sexuality. New media technologies have increasingly connected diasporic space with mainland South Asia, globalising queer networks. Yet, these trajectories are necessarily discontinuous. In the last two decades whilst there has been an explosion of LGBTQ+ visibility most notably in South Asian film...
Peer Research in Health and Social Development
Peer research is increasingly used in international academic, policy and practice environments. It engages members of a group or social network as trusted members of a research team working in communities and settings they are familiar with. Critics, however, point to methodological concerns with peer research. These include the extent to which peer researchers genuinely represent the populations under study; data confidentiality; the emotional burden of enquiring into sensitive issues peers may experience in their own lives; and the reliability and credibility of data collected by people who do not have academic training. The book seeks to counter the marginalisation of research experience ...
Discretion, Discrimination and the Rule of Law
""Aims to analyse whether unwarranted disparity existed in rape sentencing in India, which anecdotal work of other scholars had pointed to"--Provided by publisher"--
Out of Line and Offline
The 1990s and early 2000s were heady days for Indian queer people and their networks as they emerged from the shadows. They grouped together to deal with covert and overt forms of stigma, discrimination, and violence in different spheres of life. Tracing the life stories of around a dozen queer individuals and their allies from eastern India, Out of Line and Offline dwells on the many ways in which queer communities were mobilized in the first decade of the movement in India, and how such mobilization affected the lives of queer people in the long run. Pawan Dhall draws on in-depth interviews, which generate compelling stories of individual lives and experiences amid a society that was slowly being pressured to change. Dhall also delves into the archives of some of the earliest queer support forums in eastern India to reveal the ways in which the movement developed and grew. A thoroughly researched and poignantly human document, this volume will find an important place in the canon of literature on queer movements across the world.
Queer Potli
The Indian queer scenario and its attendant movement for the right to be different and yet equal is made up of hundreds and thousands of behind-the-scenes stories of push and pull - a struggle for spaces that offer a boost for self-esteem, security, and the potential to be radical. This anthology attempts to visual these spaces through the prisms of time, travel, areas of urban aspirations and anxieties, queer art spaces, and queerscapes of difference and resistance. In the end, each story of queer struggle is about efforts that have contributed to where we are today or where we will be tomorrow - as individuals, communities, and movements. The writings and creations in this anthology are just a few of these stories - like shells or pebbles on a seashore of a grand narrative. Have your pick. --back cover.
With Respect to Sex
With Respect to Sex is an intimate ethnography that offers a provocative account of sexual and social difference in India. The subjects of this study are hijras or the "third sex" of India—individuals who occupy a unique, liminal space between male and female, sacred and profane. Hijras are men who sacrifice their genitalia to a goddess in return for the power to confer fertility on newlyweds and newborn children, a ritual role they are respected for, at the same time as they are stigmatized for their ambiguous sexuality. By focusing on the hijra community, Gayatri Reddy sheds new light on Indian society and the intricate negotiations of identity across various domains of everyday life. Further, by reframing hijra identity through the local economy of respect, this ethnography highlights the complex relationships among local and global, sexual and moral, economies. This book will be regarded as the definitive work on hijras, one that will be of enormous interest to anthropologists, students of South Asian culture, and specialists in the study of gender and sexuality.
Law Like Love
Contributed articles: with reference to India.
The Human Rights to Water and Sanitation
A comprehensive overview of the human rights to water and sanitation, exploring theoretical, conceptual, and practical aspects.
