Locating a shadowy state in queer, feminist politics.
Summary: In this commentary, part of a book forum on Srila Roy's (2022) book Changing the Subject: Feminist and Queer Politics in Neoliberal India, I argue that the feminist and queer movement, in response to the neoliberal turn in India, is not totally separate from the Indian state formations. In...
| Published in: | Anthropology & Humanism Vol. 48; no. 2; pp. 452 - 456 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Dec2023
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| Summary: | Summary: In this commentary, part of a book forum on Srila Roy's (2022) book Changing the Subject: Feminist and Queer Politics in Neoliberal India, I argue that the feminist and queer movement, in response to the neoliberal turn in India, is not totally separate from the Indian state formations. In fact, a shadowy state emerges in the affective life of citizens as an expression of what Timothy Mitchell would have called "state effect." |
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